My blogs

Blogs I follow

Industry	Chemicals
Occupation	retired
Location	Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne Wear/Northumberland, United Kingdom
Introduction	Retired,.New to computing,love it/like blog idea.Like people,animals,outdoors,hills,lakes,seaside.Sunday Times crossword,hundreds of attempts to win the gold pen,in vain(hint hint).
Interests	Walking,world affairs,people environment,travel,crosswords, suduko,my dog,last but not any where near last,my family.Also,hilly mountainous country/Alps,Dolomites/ English Lakes,Scotland.
Favorite movies	Coen brothers,Woody Allen, John Huston,Coppola,Go for films by brilliant directors. Third Man favourite.
Favorite music	Like the great Germanic composers,jazz,folk.world music,good pop.Jools Holland's "Later" prog' always great musically. George Gershwin,Stephan Grapelli,Miles Davis,James Taylor,Brahms, Davis,Ray Charles.Stravinsky.
Favorite books	John Updike's "Rabbit"series. Graham Greene's "entertainment"novels,Doestoevsky for Russian realism.Saul Bellow, Myles na Gopeleen off beat Irish homour,Samuel Becket's novels,Sassoon,Graves, E Waugh war novels,memoirs.