Profile - leitrimgal

I would describe myself as:
I would describe myself as self-sufficient; independent; analytical; emotional; chatty; opinionated; inquisitive, judgmental; honest; intuitive; sensitive, spontaneous and easy going. My early life threw me a few curve balls but this being the Age of Aquarius I discovered a range of resources to guide my quest for enlightenment and this has helped me to adopt the budget airline baggage policy - strictly hand luggage only! My life story in Haiku just might look something like this:- Born Happy Got Sad, Messed Up Got Sorted, Grew Up Sought Wisdom – Searching….First and foremost I am mammy to my 14yr old daughter. We live in an old house which I bought some years ago and have almost finished restoring into a cosy home for both of us. I am currently working with a new community radio station and have great plans for a social and cultural revolution and eventual worl domination! Having spent many years drooling at the art of piano playing (…and indeed at a few piano players along the way...) I finally decided a couple of years ago to learn to play. I don’t expect my playing will ever put food on the table but I reckon in 25yrs time I should be good enough to entertain the other senior citizens living in the home with me! Although I live in a picturesque rural area I tend to be more indoor and sedentary than outdoors and active so you are more likely to find me sitting reading and listening to music than shopping or doing Pilates. However I have on occasion been sighted doing a little walking or cycling and I can boast having done a bungee jump and have plans to try surfing this summer. Interested in LITERATURE, FILM and MUSIC!! To be specific....BOOKS: This is where my inner snob is unleashed..... To Kill a Mockingbird, The God of Small Things, Naked Lunch, Brave New World, Republic, Wuthering Heights, This Side of Brightness; The Brothers Karamazov, The Outsider; Tom Sayer, Huckleberry Finn, Various Musical Biographies and Chambers Dictionary. MOVIES ( or as we call them in Ireland FIL-UMS): These range from general to musical so lets start with the general: Inherit the Wind, Wuthering Heights,The Big Sleep, Blue Velvet, As Good as it Gets, CLockwork Orange, Hannah and Her Sisters, Chinatown, The Bicycle Thief, Chocolat, Shut up and Sing, The Butcher Boy. And the musical variety: West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, My Fair Lady, Easter Parade, High Society, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Wizard of Oz.MUSIC: Music plays a big part of my life whether listening to it, going to live gigs and concerts or traipsing around muddy festival sites. My musical tastes are best described as catholic and eclectic. If pressed to name a few favourites then Little Feat would win the favourite band category, Rory Gallagher would be bestowed with the favourite guitarist accolade (with Stevie Ray Vaughan nipping at his heels) and Bill Evans would be awarded the title of favourite Jazz pianist! After that the best way to describe my taste is to list some of my stuff….. Robert Johnson, Jimmy Reid, Bonnie Raitt, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Kurt Elling, Steely Dan, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Velvet Underground, The Stranglers, Santana, Ry Cooder, Kings of Leon, Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Carl Perkins, Stray Cats, Imelda May, Average White Band, Wilson Pickett, Bill Withers, Leonard Cohen, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Kevin Doherty and a smattering of roots including Buena Vista, Djembe, Zydeco, Ethopiques, Gypsy Kings, Classical and Trad for good measure. I also try to keep a little abreast of contemporary mainstream stuff too so that I don't appear too fuddy duddy, can bluff my way through the nuances of 2 step -v-dubstep and, can try to appear credible when making seemingly insightful parental advisory comments to my teenage daughter about the dangers of sexist and mysoginistic lyrics in gangsta rap :-(

My ideal partner would be:
This is not for the feint hearted: <b>PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER:</b> He will be a strong, quietly confident, self assured man who does not feel he needs a relationship to make him complete. He will not be too restricted by what other people think of him and is courageous when it comes to standing up for something important. He is both a thinker and talker who ponders ways to make the world a better place yet still finds a space to laugh at the madness of it all. He would not feel threatened being with a woman who has a mind of her own and wont get defensive if I use the 'F' word (no not that 'F' word…… the Feminist 'F' word!!) 'cause he will know that when I talk about gender equality that I am not anti-men. There will be times when he will enjoy doing things on his own as well as wanting to do things with me. <b>INTERESTS AND ACIVITIES:</b> He will have a keen interest in at least one of the following pursuits - music, literature, film, radio, comedy, art, theatre - but might not necessarily have the same tastes. He will enjoy travelling to unforsaken places where he will be most keen to go native. (Ideally he wont be but....).... if he is the uber-active sporty type he will not harbour a desire to increase my lung capacity, reduce my BMI or educate me in the nuance of 'knock-on' or 'off-side'...please… PLEASE…take it down the pub with the lads. <b>LITERATE ENOUGH TO COMPLETE A PROFILE: </b> Dont bother to mail me if you haven't compleed a profile. Seriously guys...if you answered "ask me later'" more than once in your Profile I will assume that you were either too stupid to understand the question, too illiterate to answer it, too unimaginative to lie about it or.... too dumb to know the difference! I really don't have either the time nor the interest in exchanging 30 or 40 e-mails to find out what you could have put on your Profile! [Oh and eh....a word to all you genuinely smart, witty,interesting guys who thought it didn't matter - it does so why not click on the 'Edit profile' button and get typing!!] <b>NOT ASHAMED TO BE SEEN IN PUBLIC:</b> The increased interest in personal grooming and appearance amongst men has been one of the welcome advances in their evolution over the past 10yrs...hair products, celebrity afershave and designer labels now grace the workplace, pubs and clubs where men hang out so guys...what on earth makes you think that if you are socialisig on this site with a paperbag over your head (no photo) that I am going to be bothered to respond to you...'cause I wont. DO NOT MAIL ME if you have no photo 'cause I will assume that you are either married or in a relationship; in a witness protection programme; avoiding the taxman or a member of an illegal organisation. If it isn't any one of those quite legitimate reasons then you most likely have a string of excuses which you use to cover up the fact that you have a hang-up about being on a dating site...ooops.. looks like you're carrying excess baggage!!! Really, DONT MAIL ME - you wont like my reply !! <b>HAVE NO DESIRE TO CREATE ANOTHER IN HIS OWN LIKENESS:</b> As I am mid forties and have a child my ideal partner he will not be looking for the mother of his children. <b>AND FINALLY.....</b> he will have had the stamina to read all of this profile and will have enjoyed it a little and will now be intrigued enough to want more. He will be looking for more than a compatible partner he will be seeking a kindred spirit - an Anam Cara! Whether or not my ideal partner exists is not in question - whether or not I can find him is quite another matter…… phew! Hello...hello... anyone left out there????

My ideal date would be:
Will probably involve music or theatre or cinema or something like... like.. the circus - but definitely would not involve football (or anything with the words 'cup' or 'championship' in it). It could possibly involve food and is much more likely to involve alcohol than coffee - the alcohol preferrably being in the form of either a peaty island Scotch or pint of Guinness rather than a Mochito or Pinot Griggio.