| General | Breathing, live music, Squirrels, other people's stories, badly stuffed animals (The Drover's Inn, Loch Lomond is a shrine to this!!), the Western Isles, the word 'blancmange' (criminally under-used!), my bed, my duvet, my pillows, my foot spa, brussel sprouts, the moon and stars, the sea, inside my head. | | Music | Oasis, Biffy Clyro, Our Small Capital, Calamateur, Crash My Model Car, Sufjan Stevens, King Creosote, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Elbow, Dogs, Neko Case, Your Scarecrow, The Cinematics,Dun Ringle, The Fratellis, My Latest Novel, Calla, Arab Strap, Young Heart Attack, Mill A h-Uile Rud, The National, Lee Patterson, Amandine, Doves, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Clash, Marvin Gaye, Duke Special, PJ Harvey, The New Pornographers, Joanna Newsom, AC/DC, The Verve, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Your Distant Cousin, Prince Edward Island, The Charlatans,Sam Cooke,The Vatersay Boys, Beastie Boys, The Proclaimers, The Beach Boys, The Gael Force, Union Of Knives, Mindy Smith, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Johnny Cash, Alecto, The Hazey Janes, Jo Mango, Roddy Woomble, King Creosote, Howling Bells,Manor Park Elite (the music, not the name!) | | Movies | Jaws, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, return Of The Jedi, Restless Natives, Local Hero, Whisky Galore, Ice Cold In Alex, Ten Canoes, Once, Jindabyne | | Television | The Mighty Boosh, Still Game, Popworld, Weir's Way(!), PC Alasdair Stiubhart, Newsnight, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fawlty Towers. | | Books | Haynes manual (Talbot Sunbeam '82), Harpoon At A Venture (Gavin Maxwell), John Peel - Margrave Of The Marshes, Spagan, Pryor Convictions (Richard Pryor), Islands In The Clouds (Isabella Tree), The Miracle Of Mindfulness (Thich Nhat Hanh), Touching The Void (Joe Simpson), A School In South Uist (F.G. Rea), Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer), The Fatal Shore (Robert Hughes), The Rocks Remain (Gavin Maxwell), A Child Called It (David Pelzer), Three Dark Days (Kenneth Macdonald), anything by Bill Bryson. |
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