Karl had much love in his life, but, he also had his pastimes and pleasures. The greatest of these were football, travel, music, television and film.

FOOTBALL
Karl was a lifelong Sunderland supporter and past club mascot. Sunderland's theme tune, Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet' was played at his funeral. Another song associated with Sunderland AFC is 'Ready to Go'.

TRAVEL
Karl managed to travel to a number of places, among these were:-
Boston
Disneyworld
Dublin
Gibraltar
Ibiza
Malaga
Paris
Saint-Nazaire
Tenerife

MUSIC
He was a big fan of R.E.M.and collected many of their CDs. R.E.M.'s 'Everybody Hurts' was played at his funeral.

TELEVISION
Among his favourite television programmes were:-
The X-Files
The Simpsons. Click HERE to find out why Karl thought the Simpsons were so successful then hear Homer!
South Park. Hear Cartman laughing.

FILM
His favourite film directors were:-
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez, the Director of 'From Dusk Til Dawn'
He was also very fond of the Terminator movies.
Here are a few of his favourite movie quotes.