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Welcome to RACHE.CO.UK. If you enjoy motorsport, Star Wars, karting, scuba diving, WW2 warplanes and rodents, then stick around and have a surf.

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Name: Rachel Smith

Job: Admin Assistant/Sandtrooper TD-2441 UK Garrison, Ghostbuster "Dr Smith", owner - www.fuzzbutt.co.uk

Interests: Motorsport, Powerbocking (www.projump.co.uk), Trooping with the 501st, fast cars and motorbikes, scuba diving, keeping rats, pumpkin carving, WW2 airfields, the 8th Air Force and it's history, heavy bombers (B17, B24, B25), WW2 fighter planes, XBox (Halo, Lego Star Wars), gardening, sewing snuggly rodent houses, Jack Daniels, chocolate, eBay, gadgets, home baking, karting, warm sunshine, autumn days, long summer nights in a beer garden with good company!


Future ambitions:

  • Make Fuzzbutt.co.uk a success
  • See as much of the world as possible
  • Own a stable of exotic sports cars
  • Learn to kite surf
  • Swim with whale sharks
  • Go whale watching
  • Fly across the Grand Canyon
  • Have a flight in a P51, Lancaster, B24/B25 and Spitfire
  • To dive "Blackjack", a sunken B17 in Papua New Guinea

Life highlights to date:

Choons: Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Al Bowlly, Miller, Dorsey, Basie etc....also Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Sinatra, Tony Bennett. Gilbert & Sullivan Opera is also a fave, plus various classical stuff such as Karl Jenkins, The Sixteen, John Tavener, Ludovico Einaudi...again, too much to list. Modern tastes include The Manics, Razorlight, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Placebo, Pink Floyd, Matchbox 20.....most stuff except ragga, rap, metal and teeny-pop.

Films: Star Wars Trilogy, Gladiator, The Abyss, Road Trip, LOTR 1, American Grafitti, Groundhog Day, City Slickers, Ghostbusters, The Mummy, The Matrix, Stuart Little, The Faculty, American Psycho, Reighn of Fire, When Harry Met Sally, Terminator 1 & 2, Saving Private Ryan, Twelve o'clock High, Pearl Harbor, Kate & Leopold.

Old classic faves include High Society, Young at Heart, Wuthering Heights, Roman Holiday, Friendly Persuasion, Singing in the Rain, Gone With the Wind and Calamity Jane.

Keeping boredom at bay....

  • Home Baking
  • Going to airshows/restored WWII airfields
  • Attending numerous 1940s swing dances around the country
  • Chasing vintage planes
  • Learning dressmaking
  • Watching too many DVDs
  • Spending ££££ on eBay
  • Drinking whiskey
  • Going to the cinema
  • Collecting vintage LIFE and YANK magazines
  • Reading
  • Moaning about life in general

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