Cryptic crosswords, especially Auracaria in The Gruniad, even if I rarely complete them. Radio 4 comedy, especially "I'm Sorry I Have'nt A Clue" and listening to "The Archers". Growing plants with varying degrees of success, my pumpkins have all been eaten now, my new venture is the cultivation of giant Jersey cabbages, which can be turned into walking sticks. My garlics have survived the winter. My Kohl Rabbi seedlings have mostly perished, Salsify seeds just popping their heads out, celeraic seedlings proliferatig for now. Desperate to get my hands on some jeruslaem artichoke to grow as I am told guaranteed flatulance follows the consumption of this vegetable. There is nothing in the world more entertaining than a well timed guff . . . ;-). Playing with Derek and Jack the cats. Borrowing other peoples dogs. Beggining to overcome readers block. Smell of creosote, fresh basil and tarmac. Finding secret caves and tunnels. Goats and lobsters and cuttlefish. Eating cheese, proper Cornish pasties (vegetarian ones) and lovely pesto made by Dave. Watching animals, people, films and some TV series. Cleaning and tidying as a means of procrastination/avoidance. Vices:Smoking and vodka, and muttering to myself about how much better the world would be if everyone just tidied up after themselves as they went along . . . have you seen the state of the medicines trolley on the ward? And why does no-one wash the pots up as well as I do, mutter, mutter . . .
Splendid people who don't mind me not often getting on the computer due to spouses obsessive use of computer games (I am a WOW widow). I'd like to meet everyone once, some people more than once.Myspace Contact Tables
Ivor Cutler, Belle and Sebastian, Eels, Tom Lehrer, Julian Cope, The The, Half Man Half Biscuit, Aimee Mann, The Pixies, The Smiths, Violent Femmes, Nick Drake, Jonathon Richman, The Clash/Joe Strummer, They Might Be Giants, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Stone Roses, Sudden Sway.
Last Night, Harold and Maude, All About My Mother, Pan's Labyrinth, Harvey, Rushmore, The Princess Bride, Oldboy, Clerks, Dogma, The Quiet Earth, Spirited Away, Dark Days, Showgirls, Save The Green Planet, Donnie Darko, Pi, Heavenly Creatures, David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, Most Cohen Brothers, Terry Gilliam, Dario Argento, Don't Look Now, Mystery Men, Goodbye Mr.Chips, Silent Running, A Matter of Life and Death, The Happiness of the Katakuris, cheesy horror films, Paint Your Wagon.
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The Wire, Twin Peaks, Deadwood, Tribe, Oz, Lost, Sapphire and Steel, Blake's 7, The Prisoner, Survivors, Six Feet Under, Millennium, Dr Who (Tom Baker IS the Doctor), Fist of Fun, This Morning with Richard not Judy, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Blue Jam, The Mighty Boosh, Peep Show, Lars von Triers The Kingdom . . .I watch too much TV what with Dave playing WOW/QWERTY diving on the computer all night
MR James, A Confederacy of Dunces, Illuminatus!, The Magus, The Anubis Gates, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, The Little Prince, The Sirens of Titan, Isle of Wight County Press, The Dharma Bums, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Seal Woman, The Five Gates of Hell, Sandman, Halo Jones, 2000 AD in the 1980's, Invisibles, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Fortean Times . . . but I had been suffering a long painful bout of readers block . . .thank you Tim Powers for rescuing me with "Last Call".
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