Reading, walking, wandering, moblogging, interneting, watching films and drama, drinking whisky, sitting in pubs, sitting by rivers and streams, eating good food, olives, cooking every now and then, sleeping, snuggling, growing my hair until it's longer than my sister's again, studying, knowing stuff, travelling, adventuring, exploring, writing, taking pictures, cuddling cats, theatre, making enough money to do the things I want, avoiding conflict, arguing, being stubborn, thinking, being quiet, introversion, looking at pictures, galleries, the countryside, the city, Lundy Island, India, postmodernism, modernism, thoughts, swimming in the sea and writing long and boring lists.
Anti-social-networkers.
My AudioscrobblerThat should sort of sum it up.
The English Patient, Carrie, Pan's Labyrinth, Jarhead, Joy Luck Club, Lost in Translation, Withnail and I, The History Boys, um… I'll watch anything, if it's interesting, and then forget it.
Peep Show, Dr Who, The News, Grand Designs, stuff by Stephen Poliakoff… I really don't watch much TV anymore.
Some favourite authors: Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter, Joan Aiken, Italo Calvino, Michael Ondaatje, Rohinton Mistry, Graham Greene, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Carol Ann Duffy, Philip Pullman...Some books of which I am very fond: "Cold Comfort Farm", Stella Gibbons, "Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit" and "The.PowerBook", Jeanette Winterson, "The Collector", John Fowles, "Other Stories and Other Stories", Ali Smith, "Down and Out in Paris and London", George Orwell, "To the Lighthouse", Virginia Woolf, "Tender is the Night", F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Outsider", Albert Camus.
Floella Benjamin, Felicity Kendal, Dido Twite, Flora Poste, Virginia Woolf, Mr (Tony) Benn, otters.