I like anything English and Irish, Rufus Sewell, Stewart Copeland and the Police, BBC drama and detectives, Alan Sillitoe, Bill Bryson, Aidan Turner,Richard O'Sullivan as Dick Turpin, Hans Dagelet, the Rolling Stones, the history of 18th and 19th century England, Billy Bragg, highwaymen, Robert Carlyle and Ewan McGregor, films, Albert Finney, Anthony Andrews, Dorothy Sayers, Sean Bean as Sharpe, tin toys and pretty much anything else.