Starting my own charity to help prevent needless loss of life by raising awareness of early detection through community testing. Completing writing my first novel - past half way and headed full-steam for publication in 2016-7.

Poetry (the classics and up to now). Practical mechanics (just for contrast... plus restoring classic British sports cars is a hobby). Sailing. Spirituality. Love... Curiosity about people and their choices and dreams.

Sarah Frank. Classic rock. Trash 80's pop. Just discovering Diana Krall... (I know, it has been a busy life). About a hundred other artists I would rather listen to than write in a list!

Seriously? So just a few that come to mind: Punch Drunk Love Promethius The Russia House Breaker Morant A Night To Remember Russian Ark Nellie et M.Arnaud ... really just too many again... more art house than blockbuster. Also enjoy French, Russian and Swedish cinema.

The plays of Anton Chekov (especially The Cherry Orchard). Brecht's, "The Caucasian Chalk Circle". Shakespeare's major and obscure works. Dirk Gently's "Wholistic Detective Agency" and "The Long Dark Tea-time of The Soul".

Wallander The Code Mad Dogs Life On Mars Dating Naked (OK... only joking on that one; just checking to see if you are paying attention!) Ghost Whisperer (yeah, my dirty little secret). Any documentary that shows more of what a pair of bastards were Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin (also Lenin too, the other stooge in my unholy trinity).

"So you have enemies... well good, that means you have stood for something" Sir Winston Spencer Churchill.
"Nothing lasts forever, so live it up, drink it down, laugh it off, avoid the drams, take chances and never have regrets because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted" Marilyn Monroe.
"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of their skin, or their background, or their religion. People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite" Nelson Mandela.