Whoah, I've got a lot of catch-up posting to do! I'm going to start with the most recent questions:

Where are a few of your favorite places? There’s a little out-of-the-way tea room that I love, which is attached to the battiest plant nursery I have ever seen. The tea room is one of those really quirky places: It has a tiny kitchenette with a counter, a kettle and a tea cupboard containing perhaps four kinds of teabag. All the china is mismatched. You order your tea, go through an aged wooden doorway and take a table in this amazing room. All the walls are covered in brightly-coloured Indian wall-hangings and there are lamps, ornaments, statues of the Buddha, pictures of gods, baskets of pine cones, copper pots, freaky-looking things that might be either a kettle or a distillation device, and just loads of random stuff covering every single surface. (If you look closely, everything in there has a price sticker attached.) There is an old stone fireplace, and if you look up at the ceiling you’ll see the ivy that has crept in through the roof and is curling around the beams. There's a cozy, settle-in-and-make-yourself-comfortable kind of atmosphere. I love sitting at a table in this place and drinking tea and just looking at everything and enjoying the ambience. It’s a totally unique place, weird in the best possible way.

Other favourite places are the rose garden of Regent’s park in London; any wooded areas or pine forests; and an area of the Dorset coast where my family used to go on holiday.

Out of curiosity, all the fall babies who are celebrating their birthdays during the round - who are you, and when is your bday? Um, I celebrate my name day is on September 29th. But my actual birthday is March 26th, so I doesn't count

What is one (only one) object that you collect, that totally goes against your personality or beliefs? Stuffed toy animals. Totally against my personality, but strokable/soft textures are like my personal catnip or something.

Are you a soap addict? Anything you like to avoid in soaps (goat's milk, lye, dyes, etc...) or any particular scents you like or brands you want to try? I’m working on developing an addiction icon_wink.gif I'm vegan, so would not use soaps containing animal products e.g. goat’s milk. I’d love to try the Shub-Niggurath soap from BPTP, but it seems not to be around ATM. I’d also like to try some more Arcana and Villainess.

Do you like kilts and would you wear one? I’m English, so I wouldn’t wear one because a) it’s not part of my heritage; b] kilts are for men, right? c) For myself personally I don’t like the style too much. It just wouldn’t look good on me the way it does on some people. On the other hand I do love the wonderful variety of tartan colours and patterns. I think a tartan scarf would be lovely.

What's your favorite book? My Latin dictionary, because it has special significance to me for various reasons, and because it is pretty much essential to my studies. Also, I have a 19th century folio-size copy of Paradise Lost with full-page Gustave Dore illustrations, and I love it to bits. It’s a little battered about the cover and has that old book smell, the pages feel beautiful to turn, and there is a fold of tissue paper covering each illustration. For me, those qualities make it feel really special to read. It appeals to my aesthetic sense of what the reading experience ought to be. (Does that sentence work in English? I'm too tired to think properly )

What size socks do you wear? How about hat size? I wear UK size 7 socks. I don’t know how you work out hat size, but my head measures about 56cm circumference.

Do you read comics? Which ones do you love and which can't you stand? I’m really picky about which comics I read. I’ve read Sandman and Lucifer, and made a start on Preacher. Nothing else has captured my interest ATM. I’ve dipped into Manga here and there. Little Pet Shop of Horrors is one I like; Fruits basket was okay but a little… 'unexciting' for me. Eerie Queerie was amusing.

Right now I’m more interested in illustrated novels rather than comics.

Symbols that are meaningful to me? The ankh, the eyes of Horus, the yin-yang, the Raven, the tree of life, the cross of the crucified, the triskele, the hexagram, the winged hourglass.

By nature are you a morning lark or a night owl? I’m naturally nocturnal

What's your favorite type of music to hear live, rather than recorded? Jazz piano; classical.

What is your favorite autumnal-seasonal drink? Cinnamon spice tea

Might need to edit this post later. Tired brain=dumb tonight. Apologies for any major non-seq's, etc.