1. What is your age range?
I bought the first two Bob Dylan LPs when they came out
2. Gender?
I like blues guitar and tenor banjoes and steam trains and pints of bitter

3. Do you have a favorite color?
I dont really like mauve

4. Favorite authors/type of book?
Books with plenty of facts in, which may or may not be dressed up as fiction. I particularly like leaflets/books about obscure local bits of industrial or cultural history. I like Patrick O'Brian, but dont bother sending me one, I've got them all.

5. What books have you really been wanting?
Nothing specific, see previouis.

6. What type of music do you like?
Early jazz, trad folk(any culture), minimalist composers, barbershop, early obscure blues, early famous blues, Bach, Beach Boys.

7. What CDs have you really been wanting?
Anything hyper local. Or 1920's string bands.

8. What movies have you been wanting? (specify VHS if you don't have a DVD player)
None

9. What is your t-shirt size?
Average I would guess

10. Do you collect anything? if so, what?
Traditional tunes. I would be interested in collecting money, but haven't had much success.

11. What are some of your other hobbies?
For a few days each year, I make jams/curds etc. Other than that nothing, unles you count cooking as a hobby

12. Do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Me and jewellery are total strangers.

13. Please include anything else you feel is important that would help your Secret Santa know what you would like
I am not mad keen on songs written by schoolteachers about the old days on the canals(or indeed anywhere else). I just love anything that tells me about where or how my SS lives. I appreciate there could be a logical contradiction here, if my SS is a schoolteacher who writes songs about the old days on the canals in his/her locality.

14. Remember that "negative hints" such as allergies might also be helpful.
It would be foolish to send me any jars of walnuts or beetroot preserved in any way. It would also be unfair to send me any priceless Havana cigars, as I succesfully gave up smoking a few years ago. (I have by no means given up drinking, or eating small sweet delicacies).
Please ignore all this, and surprise me.