1. what is your age range?
40 + a few months..

2. gender?
Female

3. Do you have a favorite color?
Several - just about any shade of blue, strong greens, strong - dark reds, grey, black, white - most colours except purple, pink yellow and orange shades

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Historical novels built on real characters from history (preferably England / Scotland / Australia)

5. what books have you really been wanting?
Volume 9 and later of the series "The Australians" by Vivian Stuart ("writing as William Stuart Long")
Some of Sharon Penman's books (except "Sunne in Splendour" and "The Reckoning" which I have)

6. what type of music do you like?
Ranging from Ossian via the likes of Nick Keir, Judy Small, McCalmans, Eric Bogle, Harvey Andrews, Martyn Wyndham-Read, Eleanor Shanley, Jed Marum, Seamus Kennedy, Kendall Morse et al to Runrig. Good singing-songwriting always welcome ;-)

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Anything by The Men They Couldn't Hang - I've got some older ones on LPs, but nothing on CD. Redgum - "Caught in the Act" on CD to replace my old vinyl. Kendall Morse, anything but "Lights Along the Shore" which I have. The new Ronnie Drew/Eleanor Shanley CD "El Amor de mi Vida".

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
Don't have a VCR..
BUT if anybody could spare a bootleg copy of the Australian TV-series "Against the Wind" - Jon English etc. (which is not available commercially), I'd go *buy* a VCR just to see it again..

9. what is your t-shirt size?
M

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Experience ;-)

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Photography, genealogy

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Definitely silver, but I only ever wear earrings (pierced) and necklaces, never bracelets, brooches or the like

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

Best wishes,

Bente