23 things
this was going to be a list of 100 things but that seems an awful lot of information to inflict, so until i'm brave enough to go that far here's 23 things and other stuff.
1. i live in london but i'm not a londoner born and bred
2. i grew up somewhere further north and far more rural
3. but in 1975 i was born somewhere far more industrial
4. i'm shorter than the average bear but then so are most people - i'm shorter than them too
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6. i worked it all out for myself and now i have trouble turning them off
7. i'm the middle of three offspring
8. but the only one to be left handed and vegetarian
9. i've been some nice places but i'm not as well travelled as i'd like to be
10. i read, knit, blog, cook, walk, watch, stop, look and listen in my spare time
11. and tune in to radio 4 at some point every day
12. tea is required within 30 minutes of waking up
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14. i used to play some instruments
15. and if i had the space and the money i'd buy a piano
16. i've never been any good at learning the rules to card games
17. or learning to drive, although i eventually got a driving license
18. i'm a good navigator instead
19. spring is magnolia trees
20. summer is festivals
21. autumn is conkers
22. and winter is snow
23. is my favourite number
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nominations for room 101
people who drop litter - because someone else has to pick it up eventually
exclamation marks - they just seem a bit wacky, they just plain annoy me and when there is more than one their annoyance increases dramatically
times new roman - i hate that font
mcdonalds - for just about every conceviable reason there is to want to remove them from the face of the earth
marzipan - is evil, foul-smelling un-food
starbucks - see mcdonalds
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googlism
googlism makes me smile, just because it makes up random silly things about me out of data it finds.
snowcat is not a happy camper
snowcat is a permittee of the rio grande national forest
snowcat is approximately 10
snowcat is included
snowcat is what usually saves them
snowcat is waiting on top of the mountain
snowcat is sitting on a fence
snowcat is back at the lodge
snowcat is available on a daily basis
snowcat is not really shy
snowcat is facing to the rear and sahintepe is off behind the hill on the horizon
snowcat is in british army winter camouflage colours
snowcat is not included in their budget this year
snowcat is under
snowcat is based on admiral lilwall's color scheme more closely than the original
snowcat is needed for the whole trip
snowcat is a large dimly lit pub
snowcat is never grounded by stormy weather
snowcat is not recommended for fitness or racing
snowcat is endowed with an almost uncanny ability to blend into the rocky vastness she inhabits
snowcat is a symbol of powerful surprise
snowcat is coming down the hill
snowcat is in a lot of trouble
snowcat is comink to zee medical bay
snowcat is as close as i could get
snowcat is curious to know everything
snowcat is ever at yer beck and call
snowcat is basically a giant
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books in 2005
anna karenina - leo tolstoy
toast - nigel slater
after the quake - haruki murakami
the secret history - donna tartt
the best awful - carrie fisher
underground london: travel beneath the city streets - stephen smith
middlesex - jeffrey eugenides
the da vinci code - dan brown
a fool's alphabet - sebastian faulks
the time traveler's wife - audrey niffenegger
cloud atlas - david mitchell
may contain nuts - john o'farrell
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books in 2004
catch 22 - joseph heller
north and south - elizabeth gaskell
the best a man can get - john o'farrell
the green knight - iris murdoch
among the dead - michael tolkin
orbital burn - k.a. bedford
norwegian wood - haruki murakami
a fountain overflows - rebecca west
the hours - michael cunningham
mrs dalloway - virginia woolf
gone with the wind - margaret mitchell
a tale of two cities - charles dickens
oryx and crake - margaret atwood
testament of friendship - vera brittain
lost japan - alex kerr
hiroshima - john hersey
moab is my washpot - stephen fry
mon - natsume soseki
the old man and the sea - ernest hemingway
nights at the circus - angela carter
earth abides - george r. stewart
reasons to be cheerful - mark steel
stump - niall griffiths
lucky - alice sebold
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books in 2003
those barren leaves - aldous huxley
the roses of no man's land - lyn macdonald
under the net - iris murdoch
e - matt beaumont
feersum endjinn - iain m. banks
neuromancer - william gibson
the handmaid's tale - margaret atwood
man and boy - tony parsons
war and peace - leo tolstoy
emotionally weird - kate atkinson
high fidelity - nick hornby
surfacing - margaret atwood
harry potter and the order of the phoenix - j k rowling
the corrections - jonathan franzen
to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
espedair street - iain banks
a scanner darkly - philip k dick
high society - ben elton
slaughterhouse 5 - kurt vonnegut
the lovley bones - alice sebold
sweet thames - matthew kneale
titus groan - mervyn peake
midnight's children - salman rushdie
enduring love - ian mckewan
timequake - kurt vonnegut
strait is the gate - andre gide
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