Writer and illustrator living in the City of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England
My Blogger blog .
My Flickr site.
Avoiding work, cycling, drinking proper beer and malt whisky, watching TV with my Toppy, visiting art galleries, watching steam locomotives, taking digital photos, hoarding stuff, buying stuff on eBay, being on the internet, playing with my iMac.
Other grumpy old men (male or female), fans, heroes, ordinary people, slightly strange people, odd girls (and boys) with glasses, odd girls (and boys) without glasses, other freelancers, young red-haired women who would look at home in the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their followers or as a Victorian marble statue (but no consumptives, please).
David Devant and his Spirit Wife
The Rutles
The Only Ones
John Shuttleworth
Mr Solo
John Otway
Wreckless Eric
John Fahey (RIP)
British Sea Power
The Brakes
Michael Nyman
Morrissey
The Smiths
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Neil Innes
Vivian Stanshall (RIP)
Mose Allison
Kaiser Chiefs
Maximo Park
Bob Dylan
early Al Stewart
The Beatles
Elbow
The Kinks
The Vapors
Del Shannon
Pog
Mia Riddle
Anal Beard (RIP)
Lemon Jelly
The Draughtsman's Contract and other films by Peter Greenaway
Raising Arizona and other films by the Coen Brothers
Eraserhead and other films by David Lynch
Black and white war films
Any film starring George Formby
Any film with a Michael Nyman soundtrack
The Bill
Holby City
Casualty
Deal or No Deal
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Shaun the Sheep
Lost
Anything illustrated by W Heath Robinson
Ladybird books (non-fiction only)
Books about steam trains, especially LMS between the wars
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Anything by Chris Ware
Anything by Robert Crumb
Anything by Julian Barnes
Chris Ware
Bill Tidy
Robert Crumb
William Blake
W Heath Robinson
The Pre-Raphaelites
Robert Hooke
Morrissey
Sir William Stanier
Steve Jobs
Jonathan Ive
Bob Dylan