Favourites

  • Animal: Wolf and its domestic relatives
  • Colour: Red
  • Dislikes: Excuses, Indolence, Lost Potential, Cowardice, Stale Fat
  • Drink: Schiehallion, IPA, Pomerol, Sancerre, Uisge beatha
  • Exercise: Walking
  • Food: Shellfish
  • Game: Chess, Football
  • Loves:  Loyalty, Teamwork, Wicked Problems and Burns Suppers
  • Music: Wagner, Blondie, Corries, Joan Jett, Old Blind Dogsv1
  • Politics: Serious, Lateral, Connected and International
  • Quotations: ‘Agere et Pati Romanum Est;’ ‘The heart ay’s the part ay/That makes us richt or wrang’
  • Relaxation: policiers, films with more pace than feeling, ceilidhs
  • Scotland:
    • Yes: European History, Global Innovation
    • No: If it’s for ye, it’ll no go by ye.
  • Sport: Celtic
  • Transport: Petrolhead in need of re-education, steam trains, big boats, airships
  • Travel: Cote d’Azur, Campania, Habsburg lands, Canada and USA
  • Vegetable: the dear place without greens
  • Writers: Robert Burns, W.B. Yeats