History of Film.
Fashion. Serendipity. Art. Culture.
Gin.
Christmas.
Falling over.
Celebrities.
Self actualisation.
Acting etc.
Carousels.
Curiosity and adventure.
Gossiping.
Old things, musty smells and charity shops.
Thin eyebrows.
Making things.
Punctuality.
Lace, pearls, nighties, scarves, fur, ribbons & bows.
Nature, countryside, gardening etc.
Photography.
Looking at maps and diagrams.
Housework.
Narcissism, pride and arrogance.
Erudition and intellectual stimulation.
Nutrition.
Sleuthing.
Old Hollywood and screen stars.
Radio 4, 3 and 2.
Romantacism.
Dance.
Beautiful things e.g. flowers.
Marx, unionism etc.
being a swot .
Putting together outfits.
Herbal tea.
Years gone by, especially 19th and early 20th century
(Computer games where you can't die.)
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Ethel Waters, Lerner & Loewe, Boswell Sisters, Eddie Cantor, Doris Day, Judy Garland, Cole Porter, Flatt & Scruggs, Jeanette Macdonald, Gene Autry - the singing cowboy, Howard Keel, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, George & Ira Gershwin, Cab Calloway, Bert Firman and his Dance Orchestra.
Singin' In The Rain, Now Voyager, Silk Stockings, A Star is Born (1937 & 1954), The Band Wagon, Grand Hotel, It's Always Fair Weather, Meet Me in St Louis, Calamity Jane, Spellbound, Gone With The Wind, Meet John Doe, Sunset Boulevard, Cabaret, Double Indemnity, An American In Paris, Sherlock Jr., The General, The Wizard of Oz, Footlight Parade, Wings, I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, Funny Girl, Ninotchka, The Pirate, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, On The Town, The Apartment, Easter Parade, Brigadoon, The Women, 42nd Street, Oliver!, The Pajama Game, Show Boat (1951 is better than the 1936), Gigi, Union Maids, The Mark of Zorro (1940), All Quiet on the Western Front, Gold Diggers of 1933, The Asphalt Jungle
The House of Eliot, Eggheads, the Mark Steel Lectures, Neighbours, Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe. BBC4, TCM and sometimes the biography channel, Torchwood, Anthea Turner - the Perfect Housewife.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Great Gatsby
Little Women
What Would Barbra Do?
The Dictionary, and other reference books
D.H.Lawrence
Charles Dickens
Oscar Wilde
Jane Austen
Kate Chopin
D.H.Lawrence
Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes
Margaret Atwood
Karl Marx
Raya Dunayevskaya
Flaubert - Madame Bovary
George Orwell
Cookery books.