A few things.

I'd rather you hold an opinion I disagree with than no opinion at all, unless you repeat it endlessly and without reason because that would be plain annoying.

I believe truth requires greater strength than deception, that integrity cannot be bought and that things rarely are as they first appear. The exception here would be lions, tigers and the like, they are pretty much how they first appear and are better avoided.

I'm not particularly concerned about how others perceive me, those that get to know me well seem to like what they find.

A few more things.

Please don't use LOL in a message to me. Ever. And if you can avoid using little smiley faces that would be better still. Describe yourself as 'bubbly' and I will run a mile. Did I mention that I'm really tolerant?

So, what next.

I think my sense of humour is pretty good, though not in a slapstick way, it's more an exploration of the surreal and the absurd. Some people don't get my jokes. Actually, that's probably most people.

Trying to carefully join the end of one day with the beginning of the next so as not to leave event the tiniest of gaps.

Solving problems, making things, keeping secrets… doh!

By the time you find out, it's no longer the first thing.

Books. I like biographies, crime fiction, anything by Clive James and Sara Paretsky, books of photographs, technical how-things-work books, books about art, architecture and many of the classics, including pretty much anything written by Mark Twain.

Films. If I had to pick one, just one, it would be In the Heat of the Night. A work of genius.

Adding to that, I like the storytelling of Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown; the imagery of Apocalypse Now and 2001, the inventiveness of Blade Runner and The Life Aquatic; the spookiness of Peeping Tom and Manhunter; the weirdness of Fargo, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Pulp Fiction. And then there's Drowning by Numbers, The Conversation, Tinker Tailor… and too many others to name.

Cameras, bicycle, boat, books, cookery stuff, computer.

Problem solving, imagining, pictures, people, landscape, sounds, movement, light.

In a bar hanging out with friends and listening to music.

There are parrots in my garden. Small, green parrots.

You are standing on a cliff edge and about to jump.