More than anything, I just love hitting the great outdoors with the family. I also love Reading, Writing, Nature, Poetry, Photography, Hiking, Geocaching, Paganism & Celtic Christianity, Ancient Mysticism, Medieval History, The Dark Ages, Arthurian Legends, Native American culture, Celtic & Norse Mythology, Travel, Camping, Art, Stand-Up Comedy, (LOVE Kathleen Madigan!) Fiddles, ....Gawd, I could go on and on.
People who bring the sun and not the rain.
Albannach, Sigur Ros, Iona, Eleanor McEvoy, The Waterboys, Annie Humphrey, Loreena McKennitt, Within Temptation, Ashley MacIsaac, Damien Rice, Bjork, Corvus Corax, Estampie, Capercaillie, Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Def Leppard, Metallica, The Verve, Moby, Simple Minds, The Levellers, Wolfstone, Ivy, Runrig, Celtic Woman, Karan Casey, Gavin DeGraw, KT Tunstall, The Fratellis, Live, Goldfrapp, The Wreckers, U2, Fleetwood Mac, and too many Metal bands to list...
Trainspotting, Once Were Warriors, The Secret of Roan Inish, Waking Ned, The Seventh Seal, Beowulf & Grendel, Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's Viking trilogy, Dogville, Billy Elliot, Seven Samurai, Highlander, My Name is Joe, Braveheart, Saving Grace, The 400 Blows, Touching the Void, The Magdalene Sisters, The Wicker Man (1973), Breaking the Waves, Amelie, Abre Los Ojos, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, About A Boy, THe Last of the Mohicans, The 13th Warrior, Excalibur, King Arthur, 300, Tristan + Isolde ....
I'm really into watching British Period dramas (on BBC and A&E and PBS) But I'll also watch Extras, 24, The Colbert Report, Rome, The Tudors, .... and pretty much anything on Discovery and the History Channel.
Books are my passion, and reading is something I devote a part of every day to. Here are a few of my all-time favourite reads:.....Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The works of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott, World Light by Halldor Laxness, Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, Beowulf: Seamus Heaney Translation, Skins by Adrian C. Louis, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, London Fields by Martin Amis, Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien, A Song of Ice and Fire Series by GRR Martin, The Warlord Chronicles and the Saxon series by Bernard Cornwell.