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When not pondering the depths of developmental psycholinguistics, I really enjoy, and am regularly preoccupied by the thought of food - mostly eating rather than cooking it but I do enjoy baking cakes, I dabble in bread-making and given a bag of fruit or veg I'll happily spend a morning pickling, jamming or souping it. I am also an amateur windowsill gardener, with some emphasis on 'amateur'. I love playing games - board games, card games, puzzles etc - which is ironic given the fact that I am, embarrassingly, a shockingly bad loser. I am a big fan of BBC Radio 4. I am interested in language and in learning languages - I have, in the past, turned my hand to learning with varying degrees of success: French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Latin, Alsacien (a Germanic dialect spoken in the Alsace region of France) and it is an ever-present (though sadly rarely realised) aim of mine to improve my knowledge of any of these and learn more. I am married to Carl Messenger who is a Philosophy PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, an excellent home chef and an ever-dependable all-round renaissance man. I have two brothers, Chris and Tim, who are vastly more artistic than me: Tim plays bass in a band called The Whybirds and Chris drums in a band called Pearl Handled Revolver and has a sideline in experiment stimuli production - he generously drew all the awesome pictures I used in my PhD research. "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." St. Augustine |
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