Fan of girls, boys, gloaming, bags with pockets, fancy dress, ducks, pondweed, snow, tea caddies, nipple tassels, illuminated manuscripts, peregrinations, peat bogs, strong whiskey, music teenage boys liked in the 90s, plainchant, tartan, corsetry, frippery and lace, more knickers than bottoms, books, Augusta Leigh, Calvinism, the Outer Hebrides, plays, novellas, dying art forms, recieved vernaculars, pull-out posters from left wing newspapers, the sky in rural Poland, fireworks, work ethics, things my parents taught me, obscenity, being brave, heart break, hysterical laughter, sharing your cake.