Gender	Male
Occupation	still looking
Location	Ferryden, Montrose, Angus, United Kingdom
Introduction	I'm early 50s, still learning, still trying to find my feet in this world. I do not work at the moment and have suffered with depression. I've written songs and poems, keep plugging away at a novel, and am writing a non-fiction book on the Victorian era of "Boy's Own Paper".
Interests	reading, poetry, writing, football, victorians, people, nature, history, today, tomorrow
Favorite movies	The Ring (1927), Freaks, Sabotage, It's A Wonderful Life, Leave Her To Heaven, Dead of Night, Rear Window, The Magnificent Seven, Vertigo, Marnie, The Shining, National Lampoon's Animal House, After Hours, Jackie Brown, Dead Man's Shoes, American Psycho, 3:10 To Yuma, and many, many more.
Favorite music	Tom Waits, Neil Young, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Cream, Beatles, Van Morrison, Blues music, Robert Cray, BB King
Favorite books	Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut), Boy's Own Annuals, Jesse Kellerman thrillers, Edgar Allan Poe short stories, H G Wells' The Time Machine, Time's Arrow (Martin Amis), Green Eggs and Ham (dr Seuss)

Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?

whittling with soap...its a far healthier occupation. Less chance of splinters, worth bearing mind when having a good whittle.