Art, pottery, DIY, gardening, playing the oboe and sax, singing, theatre, writing, cooking, dinner parties, photography, rugby, swimming, country walks, handbags, shoes, travelling.Community arts work. I run an arts group for mentally ill adults and am in the process of setting up a small creative art charity to give a wider audience of people the opportunity to get those creative juices going in a fun and safe environment. If it paid the mortgage, I'd do it full time! In between all that I just started grad school - need more hours in the day!
Maya Angelou, Micheal Moore, MBE, Harry Potter, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, CS Lewis, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart, Jack Sparrow, Beatrix Potter, Augusto Boal, Kate Winslet, Peter Pan, Barry Braimah - free at last.
Pretty much up for anything. My ipod has transformed my listening habits and now listen to whatever is easiest to get to. Gorillaz, Chemical Brothers, U2, Nora Jones, John Legend, Tracy Chapman, Paul Weller, Toploader, King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Tony Bennett, Rob Getzschman, Randall Williams, Ray Charles, Diana Krall, Spandau Ballet, Mindy Jostyn, Simply Red, Carlos Santana, Michael Buble, Genesis, U2 and finally the best band around - One Good Sun!
Movie nut! Select few are: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter movies, Star Wars, The Producers, Ghandi, De-lovely, Waking Ned, Saving Grace, My Left Foot, Freedom, Chariots of Fire, Chocolat, Ever After, Hotel Rwanda, Mrs Henderson Presents, The Constant Gardener, Brokeback Mountain, Cry Freedom, 4 Weddings & a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually, Shadowlands, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, X Men, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Great Escape, Sense & Sensibility. Much Ado About Nothing, Wallace & Grommit, The Anchorman, Indiana Jones, Star Trek and finally the Carry On... films.
Way too much! Just about any British Comedy - especially LITTLE BRITAIN, The IT Crowd, & Monty Python, plus period dramas such as Pride & Prejudice. Some US stuff - Friends, and Will & Grace.Have recently discovered The IT Crowd - it rocks!
I'm a big kid! Tolkein, CS Lewis, Harry Potter, Thoreaux, Bill Bryson, Science and Health, The Bible, Virginia Woolf, Jasper Fforde, Dan Brown, Alan Bennett, Dawn French, Emma Thompson, Sue Gee, AA Milne, Beatrix Potter, Kenneth Grahame. Nigella Lawson cookbooks. Currently reading: several Arts for Change course books.
My Grannie-Mum, MBE, Harry Potter, Nelson Mandela, Matt Lucas & David Walliams, The Two Ronnies, Dawn French & Miss Piggy!!