Where to start? I live in the United Kingdom - the city of Swansea in Wales.

I was married to my lovely husband Chris for several decades.
I have two children both grown up, they keep me moving onwards and bring me joy.

I went to Art College for 5 years many years ago and got a degree in Art and Design. I also did an Open University degree covering amongst other things - statistics, social science, systems behaviour and psychology.

I've done all sorts of jobs - worked in Woolworth's and on a market stall, been an artist's model, drilled parts for trucks, worked in an accountant's office, run a cleaning business, designed knitwear, edited a newsletter on women's education, organized conferences, gone round to schools giving talks, brought up my children.

I've lived in 3 countries: England, the USA (California) and Wales.
I was born in Rochdale in Lancashire and am proud to come from the town that gave the world the co-operative movement.

See an illustrated history of the Rochdale Co-op that I made here

I love my computer and playing with graphics and making OE stationery using VB script, and also playing with 3D programmes.
I love Newsgroups on the Internet - if you want to learn about something or meet some great people, get along to a Newsgroup!
I'm a Sysop at the Annexcafé Newsgroups.

I also enjoy researching my ancestors on the Internet. I feel lucky every day that I was not born in the 1800s after finding out that two of my great-grandfathers worked in a cotton-mill from the age of 11!
Visit my Family History pages.

Away from my computer I enjoy gardening - I know the Latin names of some plants; and I like knitting and designing knitting patterns, but never seem to have time nowadays.
I love reading novels and some factual books.

I've been learning Welsh for the past few years which is one of the most difficult but rewarding things I've ever done!
Visit my Welsh pages.

I have an ambition to be organised one day both on my computer and in the real world, but it never seems to happen. hahaha.... I still live in hope though, so I must be an optimist.

So that's me :-)

Cary

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I wrote this page because my hairdresser, Yiannis told me to get on with it hehehehe
So Yiannis, here it is, waves to Yiannis.

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FAVOURITE MUSIC AND MUSICIANS:
Mozart String Quintets
Hard Dance music
John Lydon
Meatloaf
Jim Steinman
Van Halen when David Lee Roth was with them
The Kinks
Queen
Alanis Morissette
Tammy Wynette
Minimalist music by Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Adams
Irish music
Monteverdi madrigals
You haven't lived until you've heard "Zefiro Torno" performed by Il Complesso Barocco!

FAVOURITE CDs:
The best of United Dance- mixed by Slipman & Vibes/Force & Styles ** FBRCD339
Hardcore til I die - Hixxy/Styles/Breeze ** REACTCD247
Leftfield - Leftism ** HANDCD2
Sumi Jo Sings Mozart ** Erato0630-14637-2
"Dans Un Bois Solitaire" - Gerard Lesne ** VV 7243 5 45303 2 6


FAVOURITE BOOKS:
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami
"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
"Getting Even" by Carolyn Haddad
"A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
"David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
"Larry's Party" by Carol Shields
"Welcome To The Great Mysterious" by Lorna Landvik
"Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver
Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
"None of Your Business" by Valerie Block

LIFECHANGERS:
"The Female Eunuch" by Germaine Greer
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte
"What Katy Did" by Susan Coolidge
"Lytton Strachey" by Michael Holroyd

FAVOURITE PLAYWRIGHT:
Samuel Becket

FAVOURITE GRAPHICS PROGRAMME
Ulead PhotoImpact