Playing Guitar. Cooking (and eating). Cycling. Reading. Listening to Music. Drinking Beer or Wine. Military History.

Casablanca. The Wages of Fear. Zulu. The House of Flying Daggers. Brief Encounter. Love, Actually. It's a Wonderful Life. The Godfather. Aliens. Jaws. Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator. Waterloo. Anything with the Marx Brothers. Life of Brian. Blade Runner. Kelly's Heroes. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Toy Story. Ice Age (1&2). Pirates of the Caribbean. Bullitt. The Great Escape. The Magnificent 7. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Woodstock.

Show of Hands (and its constituent parts), Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, Fairport Convention, Bert Jansch, Jon Martyn, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Annie Gallup, The Imagined Village, Elvis (Presley and Costello), The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Buddy Holly, Anthony & The Johnsons, 60's and 70's pop music, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Pentangle, The Who, Roxy Music (and Bryan Ferry), Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Nina Simone, Annie Lennox, BB King, Robert Johnson, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Marley, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, Ry Cooder,Clannad, Look, I've got more than 9000 tracks on my ipod. There isn't much I don't like. I don't like rap (or anything that has a flavour of rap) and what youngsters these days call dance music (Trance, Ragga, Garage and all those things that sound the same to me)and now they've hijacked the term R&B - Whatever next!!!.(nb -on the other hand it seems I might like Dub music if I ever fall over it) Oh yeah, also anything that's come out of Pop Idol, or any of those shows. AND FLIPPIN' KARAOKE (Hate! Hate! Hate!)

The E Myth. Lord of The Rings (yes, I'll admit it!), Some science fiction (Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Niven, Pournelle, Farmer, Pohl, HG Wells, Dick, McCaffery). A Short History of Nearly Everything. The Just So Stories. Edward Lear. Lewis Carroll. Some Dickens. Thomas Hardy. Some Poetry. Everything by Bernard Cornwell. Ernest Hemingway. Neville Shute. Denis Wheatley. Frederick Forsyth.

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Warm sunshine and clean air. Riding a bike with the wind in your back. Good food, wine and conversation (preferably all together but any one is better than nothing).

Stress. Anger. Whingeing gits. HMRC.

I'll have to get to know you better before I let you glimpse the private world I live in. But there are few people I would harm deliberately and it pleases me when people around me are happy.