Things I like

coffee and cafés, the sunday supplements, turkish delight, royal memorabilia, almond croissants, Waitrose mushroom, marscapone and rosemary pizza, bookshops, chinotto sanpellegrino, Morocco, thinking about the nature of beauty, skinny men, beyond retro, hot cross buns, cooking, beautiful clothes, nicely dressed people, upmarket vegetarian restaurants, Brighton, city parks, topshop, tacky souvenirs, Alain de Botton, thursday night political broadcasting, my owl bag, evenings in The Merchants with Brayn, chats over coffee with my sister, apple and pear flavour copella, Newcastle cinemas, reading my book in the park on a summers day, breakfast (coffee, fruit juice, a croissant, the guardian) on the balcony, the wallpaper in Jon's house, Jons pad thai, houseplants, the countryside, letters from my parents, bad jokes, rose flavoured things, Phenomenology, tea and the tea ritual, knowing oneself better as one gets older, the bluebell forest near my parents house, England and Englishness, earrings, cats, kites, "Let me know" by Roisin Murphy, "My Baby Just Cares for Me" by Nina Simone, freesias, old photographs, new notebooks, national parks, funfairs, helter-scelters, my brother's cartoons, Cambridge, road bikes with straw baskets, (talking) parrots and animals that can do tricks, list making, maps, falling asleep next to someone you love, gypsy caravans, snuggling, a nice glass of white wine in the evening, the Central American way of taking coffee, having a good tidy-up and sort out, Spanish and Spanishness, Hampstead, The Observer, Vice Magazine, Seville, honey rum, viennese coffees, the satisfaction after a good tidy-up/ organisation of one's affairs, Hampstead, china tea cups, letters from my parents, floral tea dresses, "Come Dine With Me", daffodils, miniskirts, the mission to make the perfect risotto, Nigella's cakes, fennel, my bird pattern tea tray, non-stick frying pans, the V & A, city walks, Peter Doig, mature cheddar, smoked mozzarella, tomato chutney, London, homemade pizza, Cranks Bible, the beautiful perculiarities of the English Language, Beautiful men, buff men, peace and quiet, ASDA in Rugby, Sarah Gadsden, my photo of the family in the Abbey Gardens at Tresco, Breakfast and Tiffanys, Audrey Hepburn more generally, Posy Simmonds, The Rabbi's Cat, "Blankets" by Craig Thompson, Judaism, fashion and fashion theory, my new suitcase, having friends come to visit, Almodovar, Feminism, "Single Ladies" by Beyonce, Whistles, vermouth, J. W. Waterhouse, pina coladas, gelato, Naples, high quality espresso, Jon's spag bol, the Q & A series in the Guardian on Saturday, Pret a Manger's Avocado Wrap, pine nuts, exciting dogs, Maya Angelou, blueberries, The Week magazine, pasta with mushrooms and tarragon, furniture with character, saturday kitchen, Reggae, sunlight through beach leaves, cycling to work, my ice-cream maker, canals, making my own liqueur, Sunday evenings reading broadsheet supplements in the Merchants, Dogs!, Milan Kundera Novels, dulce de leche

Things I dislike

Jeremy clarkson, St John's College Durham, Virgin Trains, people who behave (or look like they might) behave erratically, drunk men who think they can get in your personal space, my housemates coming in drunk and singing songs off their ipod in the dead of night, American foreign policy, British Airways, Evil Jo from Wetherspoons, the free london papers, meat faschists, The Feeling, The Houssiers, The Killers, The Kaiser Chiefs, shit indie in general, misogyny, waiting for the bus on a freezing winter evening in Newcastle, the fact that I change my mind all the time and don't know what I want, BT customer service, Wright Residential, Bina from Adecco, xenophobic people, pretentiousness, poor taste, people who think if you don't have a job you are a bum, people who hate people on the dole, Hooters, cleaning the kitchen or the bathroom, strange men commenting on my appearence, the thought of making Jen angry, bossy people, people getting married really young, people who can't spell, poor grammar, americanisms and sloppy language altogether, the pussycat dolls,waiting half an hour for the 36, Earls Court station, public speaking, deadline-related stress and long days, being in the countryside for prolonged periods of time, existential angst, the Jason problem, my sister's boyfriends, telling lies, letting myself down, women who claim not to be feminists, the fact that I can't draw, cold houses, Brayn's fear of being outside her comfort zone,