bands:

1. All sorts of folky, electro, heavy, classical, dancy, rockin, quiet, monstrous, awesome stuff...

films:

1. Local Hero
2. Whisky Galore
3. Royal Tenebaums
4. The Ghost and Mrs Muir
5. Zatoichi
6. City Of God
7. Flammen & Citronen
8. In Bruges
9. Royal Tenebaums
10. Dambusters

books:

1. Sailing Alone Around The World
2. Dresden
3. Medusa
4. To Travel Hopefully
5. Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!
6. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
7. The Crossing of Antarctica
8. Almost Like A Whale
9. The Great War for Civilization
10. The Tales of Herman Hesse

tv shows:

1. Anything with David Attenborough
2. Edge Of Darkness
3. The Day Today
4. Question Time
5. The Venture Brothers
6. Dad's Army
7. Arrested Development
8. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
9. A Bit of Fry and Laurie
10. Any well made documentary

Artists:

1. Francis Cadell
2. Inka Essenhigh
3. Jacopo Berengario
4. Gustav Klimt
5. David Goodsell
6. Jackie Anderson
7. Ken Currie
8. Albrecht Durer
9. Douglas Wilson
10. Henri Cartier Bresson

into: music, museums, galleries. grey skies, whisky, gin, arts, history, reading, sleeping, cartography, ecology, tea, the sea, cliffs, mountains, trees and forests & fake beards

not into: alarm clocks

makes me happy: Schadenfreude ist der best freude

5 things i can't live without: liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain

i spend most of my free time: in the royal botanic gardens

occupation: Ecologist

heroes: Fridtjof Nansen

MY DRUG USE: Drug Free

MY POLITICS: Grumpy Conservative