User:Squeezeweasel

Whipcrack away!
I'm a freelance writer and editor living in Cambridgeshire, UK. These days I work for food and women's magazines and ad agencies. I used to be deputy editor on a couple of classical music magazines (you'll notice a lot of edits on music pages in my contributions), and I later worked on adult literacy projects for the Government until I realised I was becoming very poor and very disillusioned. Now I try to stick to working on the things that interest me, or the things that pay the bills. You won't see me editing many adult literacy pages.

I'm married, in my thirties and avoiding having children for as long as I can keep distracting my (very lovely) husband with more interesting things like long-haul flights. I'm working on a Master's degree in Art History, and have an undergraduate degree in Law (something else you won't find me editing many pages on - I started working in publishing when I finished my degree and haven't looked back since).

English history (especially social and rural history), food, perfume, books and art are my hobbies. I collect perfume (I've over 100 bottles, many discontinued for decades - I make regular trips to France to trawl through flea markets for antique bottles still containing some juice), collect 20th century English woodcuts (I'm a big fan of Eric Gill, Eric Ravilious, Paul Nash and other English modernists), write a food blog (http://www.gastronomydomine.com), and read to the detriment of my eyesight. There is nothing better than a really, really good story, so I particularly love Robertson Davies, Somerset Maugham and Armistead Maupin. Other favourites include a loose group of American authors that some people call hyperrealists (Brett Easton Ellis, Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney, Chuck Palahniuk, T.C. Boyle et al); the English Gothic authors (The Monk is one of my favourite books); post-modern British authors like Michel Faber, Andrew Taylor and Alasdair Gray; and brilliant info-dumping stuff like Neal Stephenson. (I had the great fortune to see Stephenson give a lecture in 2002, just before the publication of the Baroque Cycle. I'm still reeling from it.)

I have a curious and trashy love for everything Las Vegas - I try to make it out there at least once a year.

I'm lucky enough to have access to a university library, so I'm able to dig around in academic journals and subscription-only encyclopaedias like Grove, and cite them for Wikipedia articles which need references.

Articles I've created

 * Nappy Brown
 * Piran Bishop
 * Peruvian pepper

Articles I've contributed to
Not an exhaustive list - these are just the ones I've really sweated blood over.
 * Thomas Weelkes
 * Reach, Cambridgeshire (My main edits to this were a couple of years ago under, a login I had, somewhat shamefully, forgotten about until some time after I appeared here in my current incarnation.)
 * Whittlesford
 * Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge