Ivy Black

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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Location	Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Introduction	I am a lady and I come from Wales. I teach art and textiles to anyone who'll sit still long enough. I love fabric, and over the years have collected enough to quilt the planet.
Interests	Fifties glamour, a good cup of tea, Paul Newman, making clothes, Stephen Fry, Human, writing, Life on Mars, Fred and Ginger, vintage American airstream trailers, dancing, Count Arthur Strong, tattoos, public libraries, vintage fabrics, Tilda Swinton, The Simpsons, fantasy fiction, Nigella Lawson, runny boiled eggs, Wallace and Gromit, QI, Dita von Teese, watching Gene Kelly dance, John Simm acting in anything, 1950's fashion, washing drying on the clothes line in a breeze, Sherlock Holmes, cake, vintage lace, painting, James May, black cats, the City of Bath, Julian Clary, allotements, the National Gallery, broken dolls, being Welsh, vampires, taxidermy, Blackpool, Father Ted, snakes, lidos, Paris, red hair, Midsommer Murders, Pushing Daisies, Night Scented Stock, Thom Yorke's voice, oversized earrings, Richard Hammond's eyes.
Favorite Movies	Singing in the Rain, All About Eve, The Wicker Man (1970's version), What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Amelie, The Fall, True Grit, Nightmare before Christmas, little Miss Sunshine, Get Carter (Michael Caine version), Lili, American Beauty, The Draughtsman's Contract, Orlando, The Gift, Chinatown, Bellville Renezvous, Equilibrium, Blade Runner, On the Town, Caberet, Let the Right One In, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, A Night at the Opera, Barbarella, Hombre, Vertigo, The Thirty Nine Steps (Robert Donat version, An American in Paris, Alien, The Amazing Mr Blunden, The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
Favorite Music	Radiohead, Kate Bush, The Cramps, The Puppini Sisters, NIN, Purcell, The B52's, Lady Gaga, Andy Williams, Florence and the Machine, Johnny Cash, Marc Almond, Cocteau Twins, Bat For Lashes, Aphex Twin, Bob Marley, Depeche Mode, Bach, The Damned, Michael Nyman, Lena Lovich (remember her?!) Mozart, Frank Sinatra, Gary Numan, The Andrews Sisters....
Favorite Books	Bimbo and Topsy, Skellig, Wolf Hall, Rape of the Fair Country, Everything Simon Schama has written, Alice Fell, Nights at the Circus, What was Lost, Of Mice and Men, Dracula, Turn of the Screw, Northanger Abbey, What Katy Did, Citizens, my grandmother's recipe book, How to be a Domestic Godess.

You've got to make contact with the alien leader. How will you tell when the conversation is finished?

When somebody else shoots it dead....