Here you will find some biographical information about me
I was born in London in 1950. I still live there, but I spent six years at Leeds University.
I am fortunate enough to live near Hampstead Heath. Here is a Spring scene from the Heath to delight your eyes!
My greatest love in life is OPERA.
I have started to rebuild my Opera page - please visit it! Perhaps you might also like to sign the guest book.
And you can now see my Wagner page, and (the most recent addition) my Edinburgh Festival 1998 diary. Unfortunately,these vanished from cyberspace a year ago due to an inexplicable (and non-operatic!) phenomenon! (Otherwise known as idiots at Geocities!) I have now reconstructed them.
I wrote my Ph.D on Wagner in the German Department at the University of Leeds.
Click on the image below to link to the University's Home Page
The title of my thesis was "A Comparison of Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" and William Morris's "Sigurd the Volsung"
Chapter 2 of this thesis can be read by visiting Wagner's Sources
Before this, I did two degrees at Birkbeck College, University of London.
M.A. MEDIEVAL STUDIES
B.A. GERMAN Click on the image below to visit the Home Page of the College.
Some of the groups to which I belong refer to my interest in WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY I have found these WebSites particularly helpful in pursuing my interest. Yes, the list is rather eclectic - or ecumenical! - but that is the point. And, since it is an INTEREST and not a positive committment, this section starts with a link to the
(I did just say it was eclectic.....!!! What I really believe in, more than any one religion, is RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.)
Click HERE to see the lovely cards and gifts I received from my friends at Harmony of Souls for my birthday (July 24th).
Having come this far, it will probably not surprise you to discover that I am a vegetarian! Unfortunately, the page with my favourite recipes was also deleted, and not all the lentils in the world could save it......
HOWEVER, I have finally started a new one!! Click HERE to see it.
I love to relax by doing YOGA, or alternatively (the pun is intentional - sorry!) relaxing in a lavender-scented bath, inhaling the aroma of lavender-scented candles!
I recently found this website devoted to the practice of TORAH YOGA, a linking between Jewish spirituality and Yoga disciplines.
Take this quiz to see which Greek Goddess YOU are!
You are Maat, the goddess of truth, justice and order. You are wife of Thot, the god of wisdom.You are also very wise and intelligent and your main goal in life is to gain as much knowledge as you can. And that makes you interesting, colourful person and there is also little sceptic lurking inside you. Its impossible to cheat you.
You are a Sceptic.Philosophical skepticism originated in ancient Greek philosophy. One of its first proponents was Pyrrho of Elis (c. 360-275 B.C.), who travelled and studied as far as India, and propounded the adoption of 'practical' skepticism. Subsequently, in the 'New Academy' Arcesilaos (c. 315-241 B.C.) and Carneades (c. 213-129 B.C.) developed more theoretical perspectives, whereby conceptions of absolute truth and falsity were refuted. Carneades criticised the views of the Dogmatists, especially supporters of Stoicism, asserting that absolute certainty of knowledge is impossible. Sextus Empiricus (c. A.D. 200), the main authority for Greek skepticism, developed the position further, incorporating aspects of empiricism into the basis for asserting knowledge.Greek skeptics criticised the Stoics, accusing them of dogmatism. For the skeptics, the logical mode of argument was untenable, as it relied on propositions which could not be said to be either true or false without relying on further propositions. This was the argument of infinite regress, whereby every proposition must rely on other propositions in order to maintain its validity. In addition, the skeptics argued that two propositions could not rely on each other, as this would create a circular argument (as p implies q and q implies p). For the skeptics logic was thus an inadequate measure of truth which could create as many problems as it claimed to have solved. Truth was not, however, necessarily unobtainable, but rather an idea which did not yet exist in a pure form. Although skepticism was accused of denying the possibility of truth, in actual fact it appears to have mainly been a critical school which merely claimed that logicians had not discovered truth.
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