I've got some time free today, so I thought I'd catch up on some book memes (all nicked off other blogs/sites). Feel free to join in, I'd love to see what your answers are.
What is your favourite:
Work of historical fiction?
The Love of Stones by Tobias Hill
Piece of comic writing?
Any of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books that has Gytha Ogg in it; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Work of poetry and/or book of poetry?
OMG, too difficult, too many! I recently re-read Mark Doty's My Alexandria, and got a lot more out of it than I did when I was eighteen.
Essay?
Lady Love Your Cunt by Germaine Greer
Science fiction novel?
Neverness by David Zindell, A Scanner Darkly By Phillip K. Dick, Rogue Planet by Greg Bear (which I think was a huge influence on James Cameron's Avatar); The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Fantasy novel?
Any Tolkien; all Terry Pratchett; Robert Holdstock's Mythago Cycle is a big influence on my own writing
Romance novel?
Berta La Larga by Cuca Canals
Book about food?
Food For Free by Richard Mabey
Epistolary novel and/or novel in diary form?
Dracula by Bram Stoker (not too sure I've read many, to be honest. I loved Adrian Mole when I was a kid, but Sue Townsend's books about him being in his thirties are just plain boring)
Murder/crime novel?
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
Work of classic fiction ?
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, or Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Horror novel?
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, genuinely scares the hell out of me!
Biography or autobiography?
I'm not really one for biographies, but I did enjoy Mozart by Peter Gay (so much so that I bought Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Professor Robert Spaethling straight away)
Work of children's literature?
Harry Potter, obviously; Hobberdy Dick By Katharine M. Briggs; The Tree That Sat Down (and The River That Stood Still and The Mountain of Magic) by Beverley Nichols; The Hobbit (of course); I also love Rupert the Bear
Piece of young adult fiction?
I Am David by Anne Holm; Toby's Lie by Daniel Vilmure; The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick (the rest of the series is pretty damn good too)
Short story?
Ping by Samuel Beckett; Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad by M.R. James; Pastoralia by George Saunders
20th century novel?
Queer by William S. Burroughs, heartbreaking; The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by JT Leroy (or whatever her real name is) - I don't care that she made it all up, her writing is superb, and I appreciate what she was trying to do. The whole JT Leroy literary scandal says a lot more about us as readers, than it does as her as a desperate writer. Think about it.
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Book meme
Nicked from Sheenagh Pugh (but it's okay, she nicked it first)
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
The Hobbit
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you'll read next?
Current read: Troll Fell by Katharine Langrish, because I needed something easy after...
Last read: David Zindell's Neverness books.
Next Up: The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred by Carl-Johan Vallgren, because I've been promising Nina I'll finish it for ages
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
The Time Traveller's Wife, put it down after about 20 pages
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't?
Ooh, I dunno... Crime and Punishment, War and Peace
5. Which book are you saving for "retirement?"
See above
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
Never! If a book is any good I'll wait, if it's not I'll get rid of it. I'm not one of those people who have to know what happens, if I don't like the book or the characters then I don't care what happens to them
7. Acknowledgments: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
I like them
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Lol, great question! When I was about 8 I'd have said Frodo or Tolly (from the Green Knowe books by Lucy M. Boston), when I was 15 I'd have said Nothing (from Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite), but who now? I'll have to come back to this question
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
My tatty copy of Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea reminds me of a lovely holiday in Cornwall when I was 7 or 8.
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I once bought a black, leather briefcase in a jumble sale for 5p when I was 6, and when I got it home I discovered a book hidden in a pocket inside - Eva Ibbotson's Which Witch? A book I love and still read.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
Yes of course
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
13. Any "required reading" you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
Nope, it's all still awful. Step forward Jane Austen. I also disliked William Golding's Lord of the Flies when I was in school and, if anything, it's become even more disturbing.
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
I once found a beautiful and very old bookmark in a book about table-rapping from the 1800s
15. Used or brand new?
Used if they are old, new if they are new
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
He's alright, I've read a few of his books but found myself skimming quite a lot
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
Yes, but only once. Interview with the Vampire the film is way better than the yawnfest that Anne Rice wrote
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
I won't get started on Lord of the Rings! One that made me quite angry was Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. They got rid of really good bits, and replaced them with special effects-laden bits that totally underwhelmed. A pity, as the book is rather special
19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
In the Hounds of the Morrigan, there is a description of a meal that sounds delicious. Mushrooms cooked on a hearthstone, hot soup with butter floating in it "like a thousand golden suns", and fish cooked in their skins on the fire.
20. Who is the person whose book advice you'll always take?
Michael has introduced me to some fantastic books that I would never have found otherwise, and Nina has been spot on every time so far; my book taste is most like my newphew Bryn's though, we like similar stuff!
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
The Hobbit
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you'll read next?
Current read: Troll Fell by Katharine Langrish, because I needed something easy after...
Last read: David Zindell's Neverness books.
Next Up: The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred by Carl-Johan Vallgren, because I've been promising Nina I'll finish it for ages
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
The Time Traveller's Wife, put it down after about 20 pages
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't?
Ooh, I dunno... Crime and Punishment, War and Peace
5. Which book are you saving for "retirement?"
See above
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
Never! If a book is any good I'll wait, if it's not I'll get rid of it. I'm not one of those people who have to know what happens, if I don't like the book or the characters then I don't care what happens to them
7. Acknowledgments: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
I like them
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Lol, great question! When I was about 8 I'd have said Frodo or Tolly (from the Green Knowe books by Lucy M. Boston), when I was 15 I'd have said Nothing (from Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite), but who now? I'll have to come back to this question
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
My tatty copy of Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea reminds me of a lovely holiday in Cornwall when I was 7 or 8.
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I once bought a black, leather briefcase in a jumble sale for 5p when I was 6, and when I got it home I discovered a book hidden in a pocket inside - Eva Ibbotson's Which Witch? A book I love and still read.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
Yes of course
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
13. Any "required reading" you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
Nope, it's all still awful. Step forward Jane Austen. I also disliked William Golding's Lord of the Flies when I was in school and, if anything, it's become even more disturbing.
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
I once found a beautiful and very old bookmark in a book about table-rapping from the 1800s
15. Used or brand new?
Used if they are old, new if they are new
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
He's alright, I've read a few of his books but found myself skimming quite a lot
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
Yes, but only once. Interview with the Vampire the film is way better than the yawnfest that Anne Rice wrote
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
I won't get started on Lord of the Rings! One that made me quite angry was Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. They got rid of really good bits, and replaced them with special effects-laden bits that totally underwhelmed. A pity, as the book is rather special
19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
In the Hounds of the Morrigan, there is a description of a meal that sounds delicious. Mushrooms cooked on a hearthstone, hot soup with butter floating in it "like a thousand golden suns", and fish cooked in their skins on the fire.
20. Who is the person whose book advice you'll always take?
Michael has introduced me to some fantastic books that I would never have found otherwise, and Nina has been spot on every time so far; my book taste is most like my newphew Bryn's though, we like similar stuff!
Monday, 2 November 2009
Me x 34
To do this, copy this entire message, then go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, delete my answers, and type yours.
1.What was the last thing you put in your mouth?
Chocolate digestive
2.Where was your profile picture taken?
Upstairs in Pantyffynnon Social Club
3. Can you play Guitar Hero?
Yes but I'm not very good at it. I'm better on the drums one
4. Name someone who made you laugh today.
Patrick
5. How late did you stay up last night and why?
Went to bed after 1am, stayed up drinking with Patrick
6. If you could move somewhere else, would you?
Yes, to Aberystwyth
7. Ever been kissed under fireworks?
Yes
8. Which of your Facebook friends lives closest to you?
Curig, same house!
9. Do you believe ex's can be friends?
It's rare, but it can happen
10. How do you feel about Dr Pepper?
I love it
11. When was the last time you cried really hard?
Last week at Llangrannog, looking after a deafblind little girl
12. Who took your profile picture?
No idea, someone using Vicki's camera
13. Who was the last person you took a picture of?
Patrick playing Viva Pinata on the DS
14. Was yesterday better than today?
Today was okay, off work!
15. Can you live a day without TV?
Yes easily
16. Are you upset about anything?
Yes, but I'm too busy to let it upset me
17. Are you a bad influence?
Always
18. Night out or night in?
Dunno, is it raining?
19. What items could you not go without during the day?
Mobile
20. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital?
Mamgu, on Sunday
21. What does the last text message in your inbox say?
Alison telling me that she missed me in work today, because there was nobody there to make her coffee
22. How do you feel about your life right now?
Time is moving too fast for me to do the things on my list that need doing
23. Do you hate any one?
Plenty of people
24. If we were to look in your Facebook inbox, what would we find?
25. Say you were given a drug test right now, would you pass?
Yes of course
26. Has anyone ever called you perfect before?
Yes, but he has appalling taste in men
27. What song is stuck in your head?
Kate Nash - Mouthwash
30. Someone knocks on your window at 2:00 a.m., who do you want it to be?
Ron in the flying Ford Anglia
31. Do you want to have grandkids before you’re 50?
Seeing as I'm 32 and have no children, it's not going to happen
32. Name something you have to do tomorrow?
Prepare stuff for two meetings I've got on Wednesday
33. Do you think too much or too little?
Too too much. My brain is always thinkin'
34. Do you smile a lot?
Thankfully, yes. I may be a miserable git sometimes, but I have a sunny disposition
1.What was the last thing you put in your mouth?
Chocolate digestive
2.Where was your profile picture taken?
Upstairs in Pantyffynnon Social Club
3. Can you play Guitar Hero?
Yes but I'm not very good at it. I'm better on the drums one
4. Name someone who made you laugh today.
Patrick
5. How late did you stay up last night and why?
Went to bed after 1am, stayed up drinking with Patrick
6. If you could move somewhere else, would you?
Yes, to Aberystwyth
7. Ever been kissed under fireworks?
Yes
8. Which of your Facebook friends lives closest to you?
Curig, same house!
9. Do you believe ex's can be friends?
It's rare, but it can happen
10. How do you feel about Dr Pepper?
I love it
11. When was the last time you cried really hard?
Last week at Llangrannog, looking after a deafblind little girl
12. Who took your profile picture?
No idea, someone using Vicki's camera
13. Who was the last person you took a picture of?
Patrick playing Viva Pinata on the DS
14. Was yesterday better than today?
Today was okay, off work!
15. Can you live a day without TV?
Yes easily
16. Are you upset about anything?
Yes, but I'm too busy to let it upset me
17. Are you a bad influence?
Always
18. Night out or night in?
Dunno, is it raining?
19. What items could you not go without during the day?
Mobile
20. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital?
Mamgu, on Sunday
21. What does the last text message in your inbox say?
Alison telling me that she missed me in work today, because there was nobody there to make her coffee
22. How do you feel about your life right now?
Time is moving too fast for me to do the things on my list that need doing
23. Do you hate any one?
Plenty of people
24. If we were to look in your Facebook inbox, what would we find?
25. Say you were given a drug test right now, would you pass?
Yes of course
26. Has anyone ever called you perfect before?
Yes, but he has appalling taste in men
27. What song is stuck in your head?
Kate Nash - Mouthwash
30. Someone knocks on your window at 2:00 a.m., who do you want it to be?
Ron in the flying Ford Anglia
31. Do you want to have grandkids before you’re 50?
Seeing as I'm 32 and have no children, it's not going to happen
32. Name something you have to do tomorrow?
Prepare stuff for two meetings I've got on Wednesday
33. Do you think too much or too little?
Too too much. My brain is always thinkin'
34. Do you smile a lot?
Thankfully, yes. I may be a miserable git sometimes, but I have a sunny disposition
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Film meme
1.Name a film that you have seen more than 10 times.
Star Wars – all of them
2.Name a film that you’ve seen multiple times in the cinema.
Revenge of the Sith, but it was only twice. Honest!
3.Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a film.
Scarlett Johansson
4.Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a film.
Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell; also Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lyndsey Lohan
5.Name a film that you can and do quote from.
Withnail and I
6.Name a film musical that you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs.
Little Mermaid
7.Name a film that you have been known to sing along with.
See above
8.Name a film that you would recommend everyone see.
Princess Mononoke
9.Name a film that you own.
Barbarella
10.Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting ability.
Björk – Dancer in the Dark
11.Have you ever seen a film in a drive-in?
No, but I would love to
12. Name a film that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t got around to yet.
The House of Flying Daggers
13.Ever walked out of a film?
Yes, Diary of the Dead. What a waste of time
14.Name a film that made you cry in the cinema.
A Very Long Engagement
15.What’s the last film you saw in the cinema?
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
16.What’s your favourite/preferred genre of film?
Magical realism
17.What’s the first film you remember seeing in the cinema?
The Fox and the Hound
18.What film do you wish you had never seen?
No Country for Old Men
19.What is the weirdest film you enjoyed?
Häxan
20.What is the scariest film you’ve seen?
My Little Eye, Ringu, 28 Days Later
21.What is the funniest film you’ve seen?
Superbad
Star Wars – all of them
2.Name a film that you’ve seen multiple times in the cinema.
Revenge of the Sith, but it was only twice. Honest!
3.Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a film.
Scarlett Johansson
4.Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a film.
Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell; also Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lyndsey Lohan
5.Name a film that you can and do quote from.
Withnail and I
6.Name a film musical that you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs.
Little Mermaid
7.Name a film that you have been known to sing along with.
See above
8.Name a film that you would recommend everyone see.
Princess Mononoke
9.Name a film that you own.
Barbarella
10.Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting ability.
Björk – Dancer in the Dark
11.Have you ever seen a film in a drive-in?
No, but I would love to
12. Name a film that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t got around to yet.
The House of Flying Daggers
13.Ever walked out of a film?
Yes, Diary of the Dead. What a waste of time
14.Name a film that made you cry in the cinema.
A Very Long Engagement
15.What’s the last film you saw in the cinema?
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
16.What’s your favourite/preferred genre of film?
Magical realism
17.What’s the first film you remember seeing in the cinema?
The Fox and the Hound
18.What film do you wish you had never seen?
No Country for Old Men
19.What is the weirdest film you enjoyed?
Häxan
20.What is the scariest film you’ve seen?
My Little Eye, Ringu, 28 Days Later
21.What is the funniest film you’ve seen?
Superbad
Thursday, 4 June 2009
My knitting obsession - update
1. Are you a yarn snob (do you prefer higher quality and/or natural fibres)? Do you avoid Red Heart and Lion Brand? Or is it all the same to you?
Recently, I've started knitting with a higher % of wool mix, but I will knit anything.
2. Do you spin? Crochet?
I'd like to, but can't.
3. Do you have any allergies? (Smoke, pets, fibres, perfume, etc.)
Only hayfever.
4. How long have you been knitting?
Since about 2006
5. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list?
Yes of course.
6. What’s your favourite scent? (for candles, bath products etc.)
Vanilla, ylang ylang, dragon’s blood, lemon, cinnamon, clove. In that order.
7. Do you have a sweet tooth?
Yes I do, unfortunately.
8. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do?
I love making anything: writing, music, sewing, painting, drawing, cooking...
9. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s?
I love all music, but I'm an indie kid at heart.
10. What’s your favourite colour? Or–do you have a colour family/season/palette you prefer? Any colours you just can’t stand?
Lately, purple.
11. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?
Houseshare, no pets.
12. What are your life dreams? (really stretching it here, I know)
Goodness me! To get a book published, to carry on working in my current job, to get more of my art exhibited, to get married (someday).
13. What is/are your favourite yarn/s to knit with?
Wendy fusion, and Sirdar escape; I also love anything chunky/bulky.
14. What fibres do you absolutely *not* like?
Eyelash sucks.
15. What is/are your current knitting obsession/s?
Blankets.
16. What is/are your favourite item/s to knit?
Toys on dpns. Love it.
17. What are you knitting right now?
Blankets for a den under my computer table. I'm such a kid.
18. What do you think about ponchos?
They're a bit last Tuesday.
19. Do you prefer straight or circular needles?
Circular or dpns for me.
20. Bamboo, aluminium, plastic?
Metal is my fave, but I've just bought my first set of bamboos but not had a chance to try them out yet.
21. Are you a sock knitter?
Life is too short to knit socks!
22. How did you learn to knit?
Inherited the knitting gene from my Mam, and taught myself (with help from my Mam).
23. How old is your oldest UFO?
Months and months old!
24. What is your favourite animated character?
Spongebob Squarepants.
25. What is your favourite holiday?
Samhain.
26. Is there anything that you collect?
Too many things!
27. What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?
Knitty.com, and I browse Ravelry daily.
28. Any books out there you are dying to get your hands on?
None at the moment.
29. Any patterns you have been coveting, but haven’t bought for one reason or another?
I get all mine from off of the internets. I am cheap.
30. What are your foot measurements, and what kind of socks do you like? Size 8. Cabled socks please.
Recently, I've started knitting with a higher % of wool mix, but I will knit anything.
2. Do you spin? Crochet?
I'd like to, but can't.
3. Do you have any allergies? (Smoke, pets, fibres, perfume, etc.)
Only hayfever.
4. How long have you been knitting?
Since about 2006
5. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list?
Yes of course.
6. What’s your favourite scent? (for candles, bath products etc.)
Vanilla, ylang ylang, dragon’s blood, lemon, cinnamon, clove. In that order.
7. Do you have a sweet tooth?
Yes I do, unfortunately.
8. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do?
I love making anything: writing, music, sewing, painting, drawing, cooking...
9. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s?
I love all music, but I'm an indie kid at heart.
10. What’s your favourite colour? Or–do you have a colour family/season/palette you prefer? Any colours you just can’t stand?
Lately, purple.
11. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?
Houseshare, no pets.
12. What are your life dreams? (really stretching it here, I know)
Goodness me! To get a book published, to carry on working in my current job, to get more of my art exhibited, to get married (someday).
13. What is/are your favourite yarn/s to knit with?
Wendy fusion, and Sirdar escape; I also love anything chunky/bulky.
14. What fibres do you absolutely *not* like?
Eyelash sucks.
15. What is/are your current knitting obsession/s?
Blankets.
16. What is/are your favourite item/s to knit?
Toys on dpns. Love it.
17. What are you knitting right now?
Blankets for a den under my computer table. I'm such a kid.
18. What do you think about ponchos?
They're a bit last Tuesday.
19. Do you prefer straight or circular needles?
Circular or dpns for me.
20. Bamboo, aluminium, plastic?
Metal is my fave, but I've just bought my first set of bamboos but not had a chance to try them out yet.
21. Are you a sock knitter?
Life is too short to knit socks!
22. How did you learn to knit?
Inherited the knitting gene from my Mam, and taught myself (with help from my Mam).
23. How old is your oldest UFO?
Months and months old!
24. What is your favourite animated character?
Spongebob Squarepants.
25. What is your favourite holiday?
Samhain.
26. Is there anything that you collect?
Too many things!
27. What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?
Knitty.com, and I browse Ravelry daily.
28. Any books out there you are dying to get your hands on?
None at the moment.
29. Any patterns you have been coveting, but haven’t bought for one reason or another?
I get all mine from off of the internets. I am cheap.
30. What are your foot measurements, and what kind of socks do you like? Size 8. Cabled socks please.
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Meme
1.) What was I doing 10 years ago?
Working in a bakery
2.) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today (not in any particular order)
a. Pack goody bags for the Children's Eye Health project
b. Print Teacher's guides for the same thing
c. Go and have Cantonese food with Nina to celebrate her birthday
d. Pester Sioned for volunteers from Cymdeithas
e. Drink a lot of beer
3.) Snacks I enjoy
Jelly sweets
4.) Things I would do if I were a billionaire
Give loads to charity, buy my friends all houses, build Simon a studio, make sure my family were all okay, get teeth implants to enable me to bite through hulls of ships
5.) Three of my bad habits
I'm argumentative; I don't do enough excersise; I don't write enough any more
6.) 3 places I have lived:
Llanedi, Penybanc, Cardiff
7.) 5 Jobs I have had:
Baker
Waiter
Finance monkey
Youth Volunteering Officer
Shop assistant in a crystal shop
Working in a bakery
2.) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today (not in any particular order)
a. Pack goody bags for the Children's Eye Health project
b. Print Teacher's guides for the same thing
c. Go and have Cantonese food with Nina to celebrate her birthday
d. Pester Sioned for volunteers from Cymdeithas
e. Drink a lot of beer
3.) Snacks I enjoy
Jelly sweets
4.) Things I would do if I were a billionaire
Give loads to charity, buy my friends all houses, build Simon a studio, make sure my family were all okay, get teeth implants to enable me to bite through hulls of ships
5.) Three of my bad habits
I'm argumentative; I don't do enough excersise; I don't write enough any more
6.) 3 places I have lived:
Llanedi, Penybanc, Cardiff
7.) 5 Jobs I have had:
Baker
Waiter
Finance monkey
Youth Volunteering Officer
Shop assistant in a crystal shop
Books books books
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list on your blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - well, not complete, but a lot of them!
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - I'm sure everyone intends to read this at some point in their life
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - I agree with Stephen Fry when he said (of The Da Vinci Code) "Complete loose stool water. Arse-gravy of the very worst kind."
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - I bought the books in a charity shop, but haven't got round to them yet
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - makes me cry like a girl
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list on your blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - well, not complete, but a lot of them!
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - I'm sure everyone intends to read this at some point in their life
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - I agree with Stephen Fry when he said (of The Da Vinci Code) "Complete loose stool water. Arse-gravy of the very worst kind."
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - I bought the books in a charity shop, but haven't got round to them yet
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - makes me cry like a girl
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Monday, 16 February 2009
Same meme
As I'm having such a fucking horrible day, I thought I'd post another favourite poem (in a vain attempt to cheer myself up).
Harold Monro - Overheard on a Saltmarsh
Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?
Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?
Give them me.
No.
Give them me. Give them me.
No.
Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
Lie in the mud and howl for them.
Goblin, why do you love them so?
They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man's fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.
Hush, I stole them out of the moon.
Give me your beads, I desire them.
No.
I will howl in the deep lagoon
For your green glass beads, I love them so.
Give them me. Give them me.
No.
Harold Monro - Overheard on a Saltmarsh
Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?
Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?
Give them me.
No.
Give them me. Give them me.
No.
Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
Lie in the mud and howl for them.
Goblin, why do you love them so?
They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man's fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.
Hush, I stole them out of the moon.
Give me your beads, I desire them.
No.
I will howl in the deep lagoon
For your green glass beads, I love them so.
Give them me. Give them me.
No.
Another meme...
...when you see this, post your favourite poem.
I nicked this from Sheenagh Pugh's blog.
My favourite poem changes daily, and my tastes oscillate wildly between dead poets and contemporary writers, but here's two I can more or less recite by heart.
Philip Larkin - Home is so Sad
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft
And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.
**
Sylvia Plath - Mushrooms
Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly
Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
Acquire the air.
Nobody sees us,
Stops us, betrays us;
The small grains make room.
Soft fists insist on
Heaving the needles,
The leafy bedding,
Even the paving.
Our hammers, our rams,
Earless and eyeless,
Perfectly voiceless,
Widen the crannies,
Shoulder through holes. We
Diet on water,
On crumbs of shadow,
Bland-mannered, asking
Little or nothing.
So many of us!
So many of us!
We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,
Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:
We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.
I nicked this from Sheenagh Pugh's blog.
My favourite poem changes daily, and my tastes oscillate wildly between dead poets and contemporary writers, but here's two I can more or less recite by heart.
Philip Larkin - Home is so Sad
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft
And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.
**
Sylvia Plath - Mushrooms
Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly
Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
Acquire the air.
Nobody sees us,
Stops us, betrays us;
The small grains make room.
Soft fists insist on
Heaving the needles,
The leafy bedding,
Even the paving.
Our hammers, our rams,
Earless and eyeless,
Perfectly voiceless,
Widen the crannies,
Shoulder through holes. We
Diet on water,
On crumbs of shadow,
Bland-mannered, asking
Little or nothing.
So many of us!
So many of us!
We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,
Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:
We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
New meme
A meme from my friend JohnK. I love these!
The ones I have done are in bold. I have changed a few as they were American, I've made them Welsh!
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said "I love you" and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's nappy
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Scored a try
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 22 counties in Wales
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theatre
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played Nintendo for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favourite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Severn Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Para-sailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life
The ones I have done are in bold. I have changed a few as they were American, I've made them Welsh!
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said "I love you" and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's nappy
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Scored a try
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 22 counties in Wales
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theatre
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played Nintendo for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favourite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Severn Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Para-sailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life
Monday, 23 June 2008
Stolen!
One of those questions things I stole from napkinplease.blogspot.com
Accent: Gay Carmarthenshire
Breakfast or no breakfast: Always banana and yoghurt
Chore I don't care for: Cleaning the bathroom
Dog or cat: Dog
Essential electronics: Computer, mobile phone
Favourite cologne: At the moment Tesco’s Ginger, Vanilla and Pink Pepper
Gold or silver: Silver, I’m too cheap for gold
Handbag I carry most often: My manbag with a Vespa on it that Katie and Lee bought me
Insomnia: All too often
Job Title: Volunteering Officer
Kids: I have 2 nephews and a niece, I’ve learned to not think about having any of my own
Living arrangements: Sharing a house with best mate Simon – he is my straight husband
Most admirable trait: Honesty (to the point of rudeness)
Naughtiest childhood behaviour: I was a good boy
Overnight hospital stay: Hernia when I was three
Phobias: Spiders, being lost at sea
Quote: “Suck my fat one” – Nina Philipps
Reason to smile: Austin Powers
Siblings: One older sister
Time I wake up: Ten past seven, then press snooze until 8
Unusual skill or talent: I can tie a cherry stalk into a knot using just my tongue
Vegetable I refuse to eat: Celery, yuck
Worst habit: Being a stupid ass
X-rays: I’ve had my neck done when I had whiplash
Yummy stuff: Boiled eggs, at the moment
Zoo animal I like most: Don’t like them in zoos, I like them out in the wild
Accent: Gay Carmarthenshire
Breakfast or no breakfast: Always banana and yoghurt
Chore I don't care for: Cleaning the bathroom
Dog or cat: Dog
Essential electronics: Computer, mobile phone
Favourite cologne: At the moment Tesco’s Ginger, Vanilla and Pink Pepper
Gold or silver: Silver, I’m too cheap for gold
Handbag I carry most often: My manbag with a Vespa on it that Katie and Lee bought me
Insomnia: All too often
Job Title: Volunteering Officer
Kids: I have 2 nephews and a niece, I’ve learned to not think about having any of my own
Living arrangements: Sharing a house with best mate Simon – he is my straight husband
Most admirable trait: Honesty (to the point of rudeness)
Naughtiest childhood behaviour: I was a good boy
Overnight hospital stay: Hernia when I was three
Phobias: Spiders, being lost at sea
Quote: “Suck my fat one” – Nina Philipps
Reason to smile: Austin Powers
Siblings: One older sister
Time I wake up: Ten past seven, then press snooze until 8
Unusual skill or talent: I can tie a cherry stalk into a knot using just my tongue
Vegetable I refuse to eat: Celery, yuck
Worst habit: Being a stupid ass
X-rays: I’ve had my neck done when I had whiplash
Yummy stuff: Boiled eggs, at the moment
Zoo animal I like most: Don’t like them in zoos, I like them out in the wild
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