Reading and writing mainly followed by occasional other stuff. Principally being, walking up big hills, walking down big hills, walking about on areas of moderate incline and abundant greenery preferably with a view. Walking essentially. Continued membership of Britain’s heritage organisations, shopping, dancing in the kitchen, all things scandinavian, photography, current affairs and the like, cooking stuff , Dr Alice Roberts, history, theatre, contemporary art, running. I love getting out and exploring Britain, my fave bits of it being, Cornwall, The Highlands, Wales and Yorkshire (naturally). I drink endless cups of tea and coffee, I enjoy the occasional snack food and try my hardest to mind my own business.
I'd like to meet:
Traceyanne Campbell from Camera Obscura, Justine Frischmann,Nicky Wire, Tilda Swinton, Dr Alice Roberts. York people are always good. Nice folk from wherever. People who like books especially. People who are doing something interesting and different with their lives. You probably. Say hello if you feel like it.
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Music:
Manic Street Preachers, Belle & Sebastian, Placebo, Camera Obscura, Sigur Ros, The Mull Historical Society, Karine Polwart, Seth Lakeman, plenty of folkie stuff, The Pogues, Public Enemy, Northern Soul, Ska, Sixties R&B, bad taste 70s Disco, Girls Aloud, Kathryn Williams, The Smiths, Beth Orton, Massive Attack, Tricky, Patrick Wolf, Suede, Lily Allen, Scott Walker, The Concretes, Hello Saferide, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Saint Etienne, Nick Drake, Elastica, Franz Ferdinand, Adam & The Ants, The Divine Comedy, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Goldfrapp, Paul St.Paul & The Apostles, Dead Disco, T-Rex, Kate Nash, Reverend & The Makers, Fiery Furnaces, Blondie, Bow Wow Wow, Art Brut, Calvin Harris, The KLF, Asian Dub Foundation, The Cribs, Brakes, Little Man Tate, CSS, The Rapture, Klaxons, White Rose Movement, Kylie, Long Blondes, Bromheads Jacket, New Young Pony Club, The Gossip, The Sugars, The Sounds, Shonen Knife, Japanese bubblegum stuff, tunes I can dance to, the Arctic Monkeys are quite good actually, John Shuttleworth and anything else that takes my fancy. To say 'the list is endless', would be a lie as it clearly isn't, but I'd certainly wager that it's long-ish.
Movies:
My Summer Of Love, Kes, Rita Sue & Bob Too, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Room For Romeo Brass, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Brassed Off,Trainspotting, Amelie, The Hours, Breathless, Goodbye Lenin, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Sylvia, Land & Freedom, Zulu, 101 Reykjavik, The Wicker Man, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, sentimental Northern rubbish, gritty Northern rubbish, crappy rom-coms at which I am wont to blub, can't watch animated stuff where cute animals go through hell before triumphing as it causes me major emotional grief.
Television:
Mighty Boosh, Star Stories, Skins, Shameless, Sugar Rush, Coast, Restoration, Mountain, Spring/Autumn Watch, anything with that nice Michael Palin, history /nature programmes and Newsnight. Other than that, I really am trying to cut down.
Books:
Robert Tressell - Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Norman Davies - The Isles, Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths, James Kelman, Roddy Doyle, Ian Rankin, The Brontes, Thomas Hardy, George Mackay Brown, RS Thomas, Virginia Woolf, Kate Atkinson, Armistead Maupin history, psychology. I’m a compulsive reader so loads of stuff it would be far too tedious to list here.
Heroes:
My leukaemia busting sister, positive people who try to make a difference.
