About Amy

Hello. My name is Amy. Nice to meet you

Who am I?

After doing a gap year, which involved mucking around and working in a shop three or four days a week, I’ve started to study Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
I play the saxophone in Bedworth Wind Band, which is very fun and very lovely. We play things like the Ground Force Theme tune, The Great Escape, Over The Rainbow and a Mamma Mia medley, usually for people in old folk’s homes to cheer them up

I read pretty much anything I can get my hands on, and one day I want to be a professional writer. I’m working on my first novel, but progress is going very slowly due to me being very, very busy, but hopefully one day I’ll be all over the best seller’s shelves in Waterstones

When I’m not playing music, reading, writing, or talking about any of the above, I’m taking photographs. I always have a camera on me, and I apologise for shoving it in peoples’ faces. On January 1st 2009, I started the 365 Self Portrait Project – basically, a self portrait every day for a whole year – which has been very fun and very interesting, but is bloody difficult. After about 100 days or so, photographs of your face from above (The traditional “MySpace Pose”) get a bit boring…

I’m also into things like comedy, superhero films, sci-fi, and gaming. I actually work in a shop that sells games, with fantastically lovely people who are as geeky as me. I’m ridiculously clumsy, I love Starbucks, and I have an irrational fear of Noel Edmunds.

Why is this Blog called Jimsy Jampots?
When I was younger, I had many different nicknames. The most popular was “Spud”, because I have a potato shaped birthmark on my right temple. I was also called “Amy Jimsy Jampots Jones” for some reason, and I thought it sounded better than “Spud”.