Cycling
I love cycling, it helps keep my legs and bum in great shape, helps keep me fit. And stops me from sitting inside all day. I like cycling so much, that I have three bikes, which are Trek 830, Trek 810 and Trek 8.3 DS Hybrid Bike – 2013. The Trek 810, is the one that I use when up in Killearn, Scotland seeing my friends and family. I use Trek 810 and and Trek 8.3 DS Hybrid Bike – 2013 ones the most, since they live with me in Castle Bytham, England. Back in August 2009, I also cycled all the way from John O’Groats to Lands End a cycle coving 990 miles in 16 days.
For more about the places that I like cycling to, click here.
Films
I do like watching films, but I would not say that I am film mad. As I only go to the cinema about 3-4 times max in a year. I would go run often, but I don’t like having to pay about £5 to see a film, when you can get it on DVD, in most cases for about £14.99 and for that you can see it has often as you want!!
So here is a short list of films that I like: Apollo 13, American Beauty, Beetlejuice, Meet Joe Black, The Bodyguard, Point Break, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Sliding Doors, Billy Elliot, Notting Hill, The Fugitive, Go, Good Will Hunting, The Italian Job, Jerry Maguire, Matrix, American Pie, Speed, Titanic, Pretty Woman and many more.
LGBT+ films
They are so many good LGBT+ films out there. I had to make a list for just LGBT+ films. Also if you know, of any other ones, that you think, I may like, then contact me.
Here is a list of the gay films, that I would recommend: Beautiful Thing, Brokeback Mountain, God’s Own Country, Handsome Devil, Milk, Pride and The Way He Looks.
Beautiful Thing, Brokeback Mountain, Edge Of Seventeen, Get Real, Like It Is, Prom Queen, Shelter, Tan Lines, The History Boys, The Lawamie Project, Trick and Watercolors.
Music (updated section : 19/04/2020)
I have way to many CD singles and albums in my collection. I got most of them when I was at Stow college, back in 1998, mainly because HMV was only about an 10 minute walk away and I also had way too much time on my hands, as most students do. This may be a bit sad, but for every big event in my life. They have their own song. When I was in Newcastle seeing Alex it was “Take On Me” by a1. Because it was the first song that I heard when I went into The Powerhouse nightclub with Alex. When I was working at Alcan, it was “Movin to Fast” by Artful Dodger, because most days when I was walking into the centre of Glasgow to get the bus home, they would play that song on BBC Radio 1. When David and me were going out it was “You”, by S Club 7, because the song use to always use to be playing on Core the radio station. Since we broke up back in April 2003, I just can’t bring myself to listen to that song anymore. When Rob and me were going out. Our song was “How Soon Is Now?”, by The Smiths. It’s the title music they use in “Charmed” the TV series. Since Rob is deaf, he does not really like music. It become our song since he really likes it. When I hear it on the radio, it always reminds me of him. And all the great times we had together, for the 2 year we were going out.
I enjoy listening to music by Abba, Arctic Monkeys, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Depeche Mode, Elton John, Frank Turner, Jake Bugg, Jake Shears, Meat Loaf, MIKA, Mumford & Sons, One Direction, Passenger, Pet, Shop Boys, Prince, Queen, R.E.M, Richard shcroft, Runrig, Savage Garden, Stereophonics, Texas, The, Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Feeling, The Human League, The Sherocks, The Verve, The Wallflowers, Travis, Troye Sivan and Years & Years.
There is also a lot of music, to put it nicely that I really can’t stand, one little bit. They include Bryan Adams, B*Witched, Billie Piper, Spice Girls, Britney Spears. When they come on the radio or TV, I jump up to find something better on, if I had to listen to any of there songs in full, I would go MAD!!
Photography
I like photography. It’s something that a lot of people say that I am very good at. When I am out and about there is nothing that gives me more fun than cycling and that is taking lots of photos. The best ones can be found on my photos page on this website.
I got my first digital camera in 2000, I paid £500 for it!! It was a 2.0 mega pixel, Kodak DC280 Zoom Digital Camera. Which served me, very well till Christmas 2004, when my Mum and Dad got me a new one. They got me 4.0 mega pixel Olympus C-460 Zoom. Then in June 2006 that one was replaced with a Olympus SP-570 UZ, 10.0 mega pixel camera, which cost me £265.39. That’s now been replaced with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V Digital Bridge Camera, that I got in July 2013 and cost me £259.99.
Television (updated section : 04/03/2021)
When I have the time to sit down and watch TV. I enjoy watching the following programs; Call the Midwife, Casualty, Death in Paradise, DIY SOS, Holby City, Saving Lives at Sea, Silent Witness, The Architecture The Railways Built and Top Gear.
The End…
I hope that you have enjoyed reading it, as much as I have enjoyed writing it. It was amazing just how much I found out about myself, while I was writing it. Have any comments about, this page? If yes, please contact me.
Updated : 29/09/2023