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Central Australia is my home. I live in a town surrounded by some of the oldest mountain ranges, rocks and trees on this earth.

I ride a bike around this flat old town. I like to cook soba noodles with pumpkin, umeboshi plum vinegar and vegetables from my garden in my outdoor kitchen.

Dancing and moving is one of my main interests, particularly the art of butoh.

Mount Eerie (aka the Microphones) is my tender favourite. He being a music maker who likes to ponder existential and nature themes

Mum, Bjork, Yo La Tengo, the Dirty Three, a Hawk and a Hacksaw, New Buffalo, Django Reinhardt, are other favourites.

Electronic mish mash craziness by the likes of folk like Spoonbill also tweak my neurons in a pleasing way

Authors I love include: Franz Kafka, AS Byatt, Peter Matthiessen, Wallace Stevens (ok, I know he is a poet), Enid Blyton...

I'm an art and crafter with a bit of a thing for hand written letters and anything that comes in the post that is made with a bit o' love.

origami envelopes, coloured pencils, fine rubber stamps, fine paper, coloured string, old maps... they're some things I like to create mail with...

fine fruit liqueurs, white tea, cardamon coffee, spirulina smoothies, rain water, beetroot and ginger juice