Grumba

All sorts. Love the classics, especially Beethoven, Debussy and Vaughan Williams; rock, some pop, alternative, some blues, non-bigband jazz; ECM and Wyndham Hill type instrumental; currently love The Decemberists, Snow Patrol, The Living End.

Strong Modern fiction like AM MacDonald "Fall on Your Knees", Annie Proulx, Chris Bohjalian, Jodi Picoult; some crime, murder, horror, mystery, eg. Andrea Camilleri, Patricia Cornwell, Michael Connolly, Dennis LeHane; non-fiction about astronomy, general science, maths, ciphers, animal survival, travel. Craft books on knitting, felting, beading, design, quilting, patchwork, colour.

Knitting, dressmaking, patchwork, quilting, felting, dyeing, shibori, marbling. I also do fused and kiln-formed glass work- mainly plates and dishes not beads.

Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Rashomon, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Big Trouble in Little China, 2001 :A space Odyssey; Clockwork Orange, Indiana Jones etc, Fargo, Being John Malkovitch, Being There, Rainman, Paris texas, Kundun, Casablanca, Murder on the Orient Express (old version), Romancing the Stone, Steel Magnolias.

Old stuff! Richard Diamond, Inner Sanctum, The Prisoner, British spy series, Moonlighting, ER (until George Clooney left!), none of these talent shows and stuff about 'celebrities'.

My Pplurk name is Grumba.