Plants, soil, gardening, bees, bacteria, viruses and signing up for courses that I don't have time to do. Painting botanical stuff -in 2006 I won my first RHS silver medal at the Gardeners World show (Birmingham)! I also exhibit with the Society of Botanical Artists and this year have a painting in the Hunt Institute International exhibition. Also like chopping stuff up for a bit of microscopy.
Check out my web site to view my paintings.
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Scenes from the garden and beach.
I'd like to meet:
David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Gould, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace, Jean Baptiste Lamarck and Carl Linnaeus, Watson and Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Ledyard Stebbins, Richard Fenyman, Rachel Carson, Spike Milligan, Stanley Unwin, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Pilger.
Music:
Lots of different stuff old/ new stuff, good stuff/bad stuff.... too many to mention. Like this at the moment.Sigur Ros - Glosoli
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Movies:
Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, Scar Face, Where Eagles Dare, and anything with men in German uniforms. Videodrome, Eraserhead. Can't stand slop and musicals! Andrew Lloyd Webber stimulates my vomit receptors!
Television:
No! it causes too much disharmony in the house! Although I love David Attenborough, Braniac, Clangers, Dracula movies and other old Hammer horror stuff. Hate soaps and Richard and Judy ..... grrrrr they are the root of all evil!
Books:
Didn't read anything when I was young (thats why I'm stupid and can't spell). Trying to make up for it now by buying more books than I can read. Fave at the moment 'The Tipping Point'(Malcolm Gladwell) and 'The Art of Changing the Brain (James Zull). Classic old faves inc. The Selfish Gene, The Real Rulers of the World, Silent Spring, Dracula and Alice in Wonderland.
Heroes:
David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Lyell, Leonardo, Rachel Carson, Lynn Margulis, Stanley Unwin, Benoit Mandelbrot, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Leonardo da Pisa, Bram Stoker, Arthur Harry Church, Georg Ehret.
