Monday, December 01, 2008

Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens

I nicked this one from Ms Mac. A hundred things I love in no particular order. I tried to make this into a scrolling text but my first version got eaten up so these are really my second hundred.

1. good wine 2. mediocre wine 3. sausage rolls 4. chubby cheeks and dimples 5. Guerlain perfume 6. BBC Radio 4 7. Bookmooch 8. giggling in the staff room 9. the Dordogne in autumn 10. twinkly lights 11. Dr Gregory House 12. fresh sheets 13. thoughtful blogs 14. verbena 15. "I love you Mummy" 16. new words 17. long lies 18. purple velvet 19. bagpipes 20. Taratata 21. a wood fire in our hearth 22. the shape of my iPhone 23. slideshows 24. Bordeax trams 25. interpreting 26 tapas 27. fishing boats 28. silver 29. antiquarian book shops 30. mysterious parcels 31. Frankie Boyle 32. the smell of bracken 33. long walks 34. mulled wine 35. Lebanese restaurants 36.coriander 37. Sunday markets 38. Carl Larsson prints 39. Homes & Gardens 40. sleepy children 41. Talisker 42. cookery books 43. Mastermind 44. speculos 45. travelogues 46. steaming pots 47. attics 48. Devendra Branhart 49. white walls 50. railway stations 51. Hayao Miyazaki 52. Pompom's polar bear 53. long dinners al fresco 54. tablet 55. The Broons 56. chintz 57. peony roses 58. botanic gardens 59. wool shops 60. very old pubs 61. Daniel Mermet 62. Kenneth White 63. black labradors 64. watercolours 65. Spanish villages 66. islands 67. Nespresso 68. very bright scarves 69. squeaky hair 70. reminiscing 71. smoked salmon 72. wooden floors and kilims 73. Indian head massages 74. Highland cows 75. maps 76. hot showers 77. hearing Italian 78. vast open spaces 79. department stores at Christmas 80. collages 81. interested students 82. going off the beaten track 83. libraries 84. black patent shoes 85. Crocs 86. old postcards 87. new places 88. office supplies 89. pizza in front of the telly 90. home movies (but not other people's) 91. babies 92. Richard Scarry picture books 93. hummus 94. RLS 95. biographies 96. Le Zapping 97. windy beaches 98. San Sebastian 99. attics 100. old-fashioned campsites

7 comments:

Ms Mac said...

Mmmm... tablet....

Le laquet said...

San Sebastian ... yes! In fact give me anywhere from Hourtin to Donostia via Lacanau, Mimizan and St Jean de Luz!

Le laquet said...

Oh wait hummous and Richard Scarry too ~ Pierre Bear and his moose meat pies!!

Anonymous said...

I'm delighted to say that I share wholeheartedly 1, 6, 11, 12, 13, 16, 28, 29, 32, 33, 43, 48, 50, 60, 66, 70, 7181, 82, 86, 89, 91 (mine), 93, RLS, 95, 99. Now I don't need to do this meme...

Anonymous said...

I love so many of the same things especially Frankie Boyle and tablet!

BeefKing said...

I notice a distinct lack of family in the list. Wine before children? I suppose this is a list of stuff, purchasable nouns, interpreting and reminiscing notwithstanding... I fear my list would contain a lot of stuff I daren't mention...

Lesley said...

Ms Mac : Sarah makes delicious tablet around Christmas time (hint, hint)

Le Laquet : that's quite a stretch of coastline!

Dick : What, you mean you don't like mediocre wine?

sarah: see above

Beefking: I suppose it just feels a little trite to list the "laughter of my children" type of thing. What sort of thing would you be afraid to list - cutting my toenails sort of things or thrashing friends at word games sort of things?

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