Music (especially "Madchester" stuff), Bolton Wanderers, going out to clubs and gigs, Bolton and Manchester (I'm very patriotic), alchofrol, running (odd I know), and cups of tea.
Here are a few of my favourite people....
The Smiths, The Jam, The Clash, Ramones,The Stone Roses, Morrissey, Johnny Cash, Blur, Oasis, The Killers, The Cure, The Fall, New Order, James, Joy Division, The Beatles, Suede, The Style Council, Paul Weller, The Farm, Supergrass, Pet Shop Boys, Squeeze, Inspiral Carpets, Massive Attack, Menswear, Texas, Babyshambles, Stereo MCs, Black Grape, Happy Mondays, Arctic Monkeys, Hard Fi, Jamiroquai, The Libertines, Old school dance classics like Hacienda and Cream stylee, Old school hip hop, The Specials, M People, Snow Patrol, T-Rex...and a lot more. Also the music of my childhood; Take That and Stock, Aitken and Waterman.
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Goodfellas, Romeo and Juliet, Dogma, Clueless, 24 Hour Party People, Stand By Me, Monty Python films, Die Hard Trilogy, etc etc...
Early Doors, Dinnerladies, Phoenix Nights, Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, Shameless, Coronation Street, Gordon Burns News Programmes, Two Ronnies, Father Ted, Question Time (yes I am a freak), anything with Jason Merrells in...and lots of gritty Northern rubbish!
Anything by Louise Rennison, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, JRR Tolkien, loads of books about Factory Records and the Madchester scene.
My Grandparents, my Nan, my Dad, Thomas More, Nikolai Bukharin.