Gender	Male
Occupation	Whatever the Fates fling at me
Location	Ashbourne, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Introduction	I've never had money because I've never been driven by money. I received little formal education beyond the age of sixteen, which isn't such a bad thing since you get a different angle on life that way. Learning what you want and need to learn often reveals things that the system's road keeps hidden.
Interests	Pressing the 'close ad' button at every opportunity, knocking confirmed liberals conservatives religionists and atheists, listening to free music on YouTube, animals - especially dogs bears and garden birds, wildlife generally, the human condition, rolling my eyes at people who claim to know what life is about, writing things, blackbirds singing in May, ironic humour, surreal humour, black humour, wit, Scotch whisky, good coffee, women with standards, rescuing small things - mostly earthworms and beetles on roads as well as wasps drowning (albeit happily) in the glass of scotch I put out for the little people on Halloween, trying to find people on my wavelength while avoiding everybody else, being mostly harmless.
Favorite movies	Funny Bones, Night of the Demon, Amelie, Life of Brian, The Third Man, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Shipping News, Shaun of the Dead, Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy, Will Hay comedies, Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple films, film noir generally, Withnail and I, The Shining, The Ladykillers (Ealing original), The Hours, Seven Samurai, Rebecca (Hitchcock version), 10 Rillington Place, Alfie, the Harry Palmer films, Whale Rider, One Night at McCools, The Cat and the Canary (Bob Hope version), Marx Brothers, Brief Encounter, Gorky Park, Citizen X, An American Werewolf in London, Delicatessen, The Audition, Dark Star, Masque of the Red Death, A Matter of Life and Death, Powell and Pressburger generally, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Children of Heaven, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Dancing at Lughnasa, Innocence, Pan's Labyrinth, Les Diaboliques, The Vanishing, Excalibur, A Close Shave, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, The Station Agent, Ringu, Pierrepoint, The Ghost Train, The Innocents, Murder by Death, The Corpse Bride, In Bruges, Life of Pi, Calvary, The Green Mile, Harry Potter, Never Let Me Go, And the winner is... Never Let Me Go (by a nose from In Bruges and Funny Bones.)
Favorite music	All things Gaelic and Gaelic-derived, ethnic fusion, art rock, many classical pieces-esp English Late Romantics, George Gershwin, Eva Cassidy, Julie Fowlis, Kate Bush, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Manpreet and Naina, Dead Can Dance, traditional Chinese instrumental, things with imaginative percussion and bass lines
Favorite books	The Mists of Avalon, Possession, The Lake and The Castle, Wuthering Heights, The Third Policeman, The Celtic Twilight, The Name of the Rose, Illusions (Richard Bach), The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Therese Raquin, the short stories of MR James, the short stories of Algernon Blackwood, Fall of the House of Usher, Villette, Jane Eyre, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere, His Dark Materials Trilogy, The Trial, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Lolita

You forgot your mom's birthday! What can you make out of super glue and olive pits?

A message that reads 'Will try harder next year.'