I'm Faye McLeod, but loads of people call me Saffie (long story, involving sibling ridicule - ever seen Absolutely Fabulous?). Rather than updating my age, I'll tell you when I was born - 1981.
I share a house with Arthur Bullard, in Summertown, Oxford.

We have two cats, and Art says I can't have anymore!
Ceefer is seven years and tabby and white. Most importantly, she is perhaps the most lazy cat I have ever met. She's had a bit of a strange life. A couple in London found her living under a bush in their garden. They took her to Hounslow Animal Welfare Society. They then told friends of theirs, John and Jen, who live in Oxford, about her. They adopted her and brought her to Oxford. Then John became ill, and Jen felt she couldn't offer Ceef enough time for fuss anymore. Jen is Art's godmother, and when she heard that we were looking for cat, she offered Ceef to us.
Mumu is a more recent acquisition and is really a result of my whining for another cat! She's black and white (hence the reference to a friesian cow). She's nine months old, and still very much a kitten. She climbs everywhere, stalks Ceef, and runs round the house like a mad thing. Well, she might actually be slightly demented...

I grew up in Warwickshire, went to school at Higham Lane, then King Edward's.
I then went to Brasenose College, University of Oxford in 1999. It was the most beautiful place I have ever lived. I didn't do the whole Brideshead thing, but I did enjoy going punting, the summer garden parties, rowing, and one to one tutorials. I read English Literature, and eventually specialised in Victorian Sensation novels - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Mrs Henry Wood. I still keep reading them over and over again. However, I have to admit that my secret reading vice is Agatha Christie. I'm really quite ashamed of that.
I love Oxford, and never quite got round to leaving. After graduating, I worked at the Oxford Internet Institute and the University Media Unit.

Eventually, I decided that I wanted to be an Archivist, having got a taste for it helping in the BNC archive. I then went to work in the Oxfam Archive and the Middle East Centre Archive. I started my MSc Econ in Archive Administration in September 2005, at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The course was manically hard, and can I just say never, never live on the Llanbadarn campus. I'm currently finishing some assignments before starting my dissertation.

Cheesy Likes: Reading (obviously), photography, poetry (especially Plath and Larkin), cats, Ernst Bloch, Jacquline Du Pre, Radiohead, Muse, The Killers, Snow Patrol, slight geeking, cooking (I'm actually rather good), playing the clarinet and alto saxophone, singing, sewing, urm... stuff.