LEISURE: Socialising / Eating Out / Music / Computers / Current Affairs / Photography / Hill Walking / Running (to keep fit - don't go often enough though!).
SPORT: Football (Brighton and Hove Albion FC) / Cricket / Formula 1 / American Football (San Francisco 49ers) / Tour de France / Athletics / International Rugby.
Honest and genuine people from the UK and around the world who enjoy life and have a sense of humour. People who share some of my interests - and even some of those people that don't. Hey, I am pretty open minded! Add me and let's get to know each other.
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MUSIC TYPES: I like various types of music but my main favourites are Funky & Soulful House / Hed Kandi / Dance / Soul / Old Skool / Old Disco / Tamla Motown / TSOP / Northern Soul / Some Garage & RnB.
FAVOURITE ARTISTS: Amy Winehouse / Joss Stone / Whitney Houston / Toni Braxton / Lisa Stansfield / Diana Ross (Hmm... people will think I am some sort of soul diva groupie!) / Madonna / Barry White / Al Green / Luther Vandross / Marvin Gaye / Plus many others.....
FOR EASY LISTENING: A bit of mellow sax music / Nat King Cole / The Carpenters / Burt Bacharach / Eva Cassidy.
FAVOURITE GENRES: Mainly comedies / Old British films, especially Ealing Comedies / Old war films.
FAVOURITE FILMS: Passport to Pimlico / The Ladykillers / This Happy Breed / Alfie / Day of the Jackal / A Bridge Too Far / Wall Street / Rain Man / Most James Bond films.
FAVOURITE ACTORS: Alastair Sim / Alec Guinness / Michael Caine / Dustin Hoffman / Anthony Hopkins.
DRAMA TV FAVOURITES: Shameless / Six Feet Under / Band of Brothers / This Life / The Practice / Inspector Morse / Poirot / The Avengers / Rumpole of the Bailey / Minder / Foyle's War.
FACTUAL/REALITY TV FAVOURITES: Time Team / Scrapheap Challenge / Grand Designs / The Armstrongs / Trauma / Tribe / Skint / Fred Dibnah / Who Do You Think You Are? / Planet Earth / Any Michael Palin travel programme / Any Ray Mears survival programme.
COMEDY TV FAVOURITES: Cheers / Frasier / Friends / Will and Grace / 8 Simple Rules / Father Ted / Little Britain / The Royle Family / Drop the Dead Donkey / The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / Dad's Army / 'Allo 'Allo! / Rising Damp / Blackadder / Yes Minister / Family Guy / Have I Got News For You.
FAVOURITE COMEDIANS: Harry Hill / Al Murray / Sean Lock / Skinner and Baddiel / Barry Humphries (and all of his alter egos).
Mostly factual, military and biographies.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel / Winston Churchill / Martin Luther King Jr / Nelson Mandela / Bobby Moore.
QUOTE: Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.