Most things from the 1930s-50s, lazing around drinking cocktails whilst watching films, dancing, sewing, vintage fashions, stockings, baking vegan cakes, spending time with my gent, dressing up for no particular reason, shoes- especially high heeled round toes gloves, trying to grow things on the allotment, lindy hopping, knitting (although very slowly!), dancing with all-girl dance troupe the Actionettes , hats, gramophones and finding good 78s
do you dance? do you make cakes? do you sew? hoorah!
Annette Hanshaw, The Boswell Sisters, Lew Stone, Ray Nobel, Al Bowlly, Carroll Gibbons, Mildred Bailey, Ray Collins' Hot Club, Roy Fox, Connie Francis, Wanda Jackson, Kay Starr, The Chiffons, Ambrose and his orchestra
It Always Rains on Sundays, Pick up on South Street, In a Lonely Place, Guys and Dolls, The Dark Corner, The 39 Steps, The Lodger, A Matter of Life and Death, The Gay Divorcee, Bachelor Mother, School for Scoundrals, Make Mine Mink, in fact anything with Terry-Thomas
Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkley, Jim Thompson, Lawrence Block, Dorothy L Sayers, crime, crime and more crime (until I get spooked from reading too much murder and mayhem). Any books to do with the seedy parts of London, especially from the '30s-'50s. The Savoy Cocktail Book.