1. age - 57-ish (well, it still keeps changing every year!)

2. gender? Fine upstanding double breasted woman

3. favorite color? Blues, greens and blue greens (and purples) I don't care for the color orange unless it's on oranges or certain flowers.

4. favorite authors/ type of book? way too many to list; collect Richard Halliburton, the explorer/adventurer; always looking for new additions to my gravestone/stonecutting library, local (to you) history

5. what books have you really been wanting? I indulge myself, so I really have everything I can afford and even people who know me very very well (like my husband) tend to avoid getting me books because they don't know what I already have.

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional English, Scots, sea music, English Music Hall, jazz, blues, kazoos, early music, Scarlatti harpsichord, bawdy women's songs, Louis Prima, flute and whistle, polkas, especially "punk polka" like The Black Holes.

7. CDs? Again, I have a huge collection. But -- something local (to the giver) , something they fell I should know about.

8. movies - We have probably one of the larger personal collections of films in New Hampshire, Curmudgeon and I being film freaks. The more off the wall the better, favorite directors being Peter Greenaway, John Waters, David Lynch, Luis Bunuel, etc. Looking for a copy (legit or copied) of "The Last Polka" with John Candy, ours went missing along with "Montenegro" alas.

9. t-shirt size? Big, really big, I like them loose -- 3X (goddess-sized)

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Oh, my gawd! I collect collections! Rubber (or non-edible) squid, printing paraphenalia and rubberstamps, bats, flamingoes, small mammal and bird skulls (identified), gravestone rubbings and photographs, globes & maps, gargoyles and green men, hands, kaleidoscopes and teleidoscopes, goddess figures, rocks, shells . . .

11. other hobbies? gravestone rubbing, chasing history, gardening, needlepoint, petting cats

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Silver

13. anything else - Interested in things that are local/regional to the giver that I would find unusual or interesting or tasty. I'm a sucker for bath stuff and prefer "sea breeze" type scents. I'm allergic to blue mussels (I think that's my only food allergy), carnations and some perfume ingredients, benzol peroxide and most antibiotics.