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ABOUT ME
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I have yet to persuade Julie to complile her list, so here goes it for me.
Do you really want to know? Oh well, okay.
Why "Jollie's Close": Well, for some reason, we are known as 'The Jollies'. We saw this sign in Edinburgh and had to have a photo!
Year Born: 1965
Age When Started This Website: 38
Age Now: You'd better find that old Sinclair calculator!
Favourite Colour: Deep sky blue, or grass green.
Favourite Girl: Julie - Of Course.
Favourite Bands and artists: Steely Dan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Shakira, Sade, Kate Bush, Katie Melua, ELO, Propaganda, Latin Quater, Blondie, Beth Orton, Buggles, Dean Friedman, Supertramp, Earth Wind and Fire, Olivia Newton John, Abba, Scissor Sisters, Mika, Marshall Hain, Katie Melua, Nora Jones, Thomas Dolby, Sophie Ellis Bextor - and oh... and Steely Dan, to name a few.
Favourite Singer: Kirsty MacColl (1959 - 2000) - Haunting. A tragic loss.
Favourite Albums: Gaucho by Steely Dan, Sgt Pepper by The Beatles & any album by the wonderful Kirsty of course.
Top 3 Beatles Albums: 1: Sgt Pepper 2: Abbey Road 3: Revolver.
Top 3 Steely Dan Albums: 1: Gaucho 2: Two Against Nature 3: Everything Must Go
Top 3 Kirsty MacColl Albums: 1: Tropical Brainstorm (amazing) 2: Titanic days 3: Electric Landlady
Some Great Music Producers: The amazing Trevor Horn, Quincy Jones, Setve Levine, William Orbit, again, to name a few.
Favourite Composers: Tchaikovski (1840 - 1893), Gustav Holst, John Williams
Some Other Favourite Music: Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Glen Miller.
Best Film Maker: Charlie Chaplin
Favourite Films: City Lights, The Gold Rush, Modern Times, The Great Dictator (all by Charlie Chaplin), Fargo, As Good As It Gets, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Titanic, North By North West, Independence Day, The Matrix, Casablanca, The Ipcress File, the Monty Python Films, The Star Trek Films, Contact, the original Star Wars Trillogy, The James Bond films, Laurel & Hardy.
Favourite TV Programmes: Inspector Morse, Life On Mars, Star Trek, Frasier, The Sweeney, Spooks, Doctor Who, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy (although the BBC Radio Four version was even better and the 2005 film was quite good), Hustle, Hotel Babylon, Kingdom, 24, early X Files.
Favourite Comedy TV Programmes: Fawlty Towers, The Office, Frasier, Extras, Only Fools & Horses, Black Adder, The Young Ones, Porridge, The Good Life, Phoenix Nights, Little Britain, Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister.
Most Depressing TV Programme: East Enders.
Favourite Soap: Carbolic,..... oh okay, Dove then. (or Coronation Street)
Favourite Car: Nissan Almera, oh and the TVR Chaimaera.
Favourite Animal: Cats big and small, but all animals are grrreat.
Favourite Pet: Cat.
Favourite Food: Anything Julie cooks, of course, but especially Vegetable Dhansak and chocolate ice-cream.
Favourite Drink: Real Ale (don't mention 'Old Fart')
Favourite Phrase: "Economical with the truth". As applied to politicians & spin doctors.
Most Hated organisations: The corrupt, wasteful and fruadulent E.U; Our cynical, morally corrupt and generally apalling Labour government - Mr Blair spent ten years destroying everything he could that was once great about Britain; Many of our stupid and wasteful local Councils who, along with central government, seem to care more about paying vast subsidies for the lazy, the feckless, and the work-shy wastrels looking for hand-outs and an easy life than they do about those who actually pay for this government's ruinous squandering by working hard and servicing and enormous and ever growing tax burden. Laws that persue easy revenue generating targets of those that are able to and no doubt will pay, rather than targetting real criminals who obviously won't pay up and contribute to government coffers! (And you though I was going to say Microsoft. Well no! Ha!) Rant over. (I amaze myself that I am ever able to smile.) Can we get our county back?
Why Did I Build This Website?: The Web is a great resource and I use it so much, eventually I decided it really was time that I should have representation on the web and build my very own website and was really inspired to do so by Mike Brown's excellent MB21 site.
Favourite Pastimes: You've probably guessed, but for the record; cats, photography, radio, computers and gardening when I am forced to. Oh and 'Lucid Dreaming' if I can - It's very infrequent, but fabulous fun - better than any computer game!
Favourite Joke: I can never remember jokes. Doh! [But what about this one: I suffer from agoraphobia AND claustrophobia: I spend most of my time standing in doorways!] More Funnies Here
What Upsets Me: Running out of beer! Tony Blair and his destructive, cynical and socially destructive government; That old chestnut the unelected dictatorship called the E.U. who disrupt and degrade every aspect of our society; Wasteful local councils; Mad health and safety laws that tie everyone from charities, volunteers and small businesses up in impossibly large amouts of red tape often ruining everything for everybody; All those people that seem to know all about 'human rights' but nothing about their responsibilities. Human rights lawyers - the scourge of our society. (I still amaze myself that I can ever raise a smile.) Can we get our county back?
Favourite Day: Holiday
What Makes Me Laugh: Tabetha our cat, David Brent, Frasier, Brian Potter and Basil Fawlty.
What Makes Me Cringe: Basil Fawlty and David Brent in a funny way, but also all the self obsessed, half witted, pointless Radio One DJs who are not in the least bit amusing.
Favourite Hobbies: Julie; Radio (listening to, building of & reading about); Vinyl Records; Surfing the net; This website; and also some photography when I get the time.
Favourite Web Sites: Among very many include - BBCi , MB21 , Let's Get Our Country Back , Campaign for an independent Britain : See the LINKS page for more.
Favourite Radio Presenters: Ed Doolan (BBC WM), Les Ross (BBC Radio WM), Peter Allan (Five Live),
Bernadette Kearney (BBC WM / H&W / BBC News), Steve Wright (BBC Radio Two), Mike Dickin (Talk Sport), Richard Cartridge (Original 106, BBC Radio Solent and 2CR), - and from the mists of time: Phil Holden (BRMB), Nick Abbot (LBC, Virgin 1215, Talk Radio & Real Radio).
Favourite Radio Stations:BBC WM, BBC Five Live, Classic FM, BBC Radio Two, BBC Radio Shropshire, Talk Sport , ; Julie's Favourite: Beacon Radio - Especially Fresh & JO's Breakfast!, BBC Radio Two, Smooth Radio, 107.7 The Wolf, Others include: 100.7 Heart FM, Radio Jackie, SmoothJazz.com, JazzFM.com
Least Favourite Item Of Clothing: Anorak
I think that's enough for now. Thanks for reading this far.
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Best wishes, from Mike and Jules |