• portable hard drive (Dad)
• Books on Vickers - planes and engines, Great shipping line - Curnard, Star(Dad)

• Julie Walters, 'That's another story'(autobio)
• A S Byatt, 'The Children's Book' (novel)

• Meditate each day
• Join Tuesday evening yoga class
• Join Community Choir
• Write conference paper on Ursula Bethell & Effie Pollen
• Look into the Quaker path
• Scrapbook each week and more focused about albums
• Listen to new music
• Plan trip to Vietnam for 2010
• Walk on the beach at least once a week
• Watch less TV (do more creative stuff instead)

• Australia
• Papua New Guinea
• Java
• Lombok
• Bali

• DVDs
• scented candle
• long matches
• bathbombs and bubble bar
• wines (2x)
• tea
• coffee
• sugar
• snacks
• popcorn
• wheatbix
• sultana bran
• camera
• battery charger
• spare batteries
• ipod and charger
• phones & chargers
• Gertie and attchments
• List of phone numbers etc for activities
• misabled parking map for Napier
• Mobility scooter?

• Frocks & Frou frou
• Fashion for Nerds
• The Uniform project
• You look Fab
• Such pretty things

• No more work till Monday
• Ignoring the mess in the lounge
• The feeling of the whole weekend stretching out before me
• Eating pizza and drinking Coca Cola
• Watching Amercia's Next Top Model with my girl

• Transgendered children
• Comment on Pope's call to save world fro...
• Michael Jackson
• Reflections of reading in 21st centry
• classical music online
• fate of liberal arts education
• childhood behavioural problems, genes an...
• reading in a electronic age

• Patrick Marnham, 'Wild Mary: A Life of Mary Wesley
• Sandra Dallas, 'The Persian Pickle Club'
• Val McDermid, 'A Darker Domain'
• Val McDermid, 'Dead Beat'
• Val McDermid, 'Kick Back'
• Elizabeth Kostova, 'The Historian'
• Sarah Waters, 'The Little Stranger'
• Val McDermid, '
• Phillipa Gregory, 'Perfectly Correct'
• Val McDermid, 'Wire in the Blood'

These are some of my favourite poems (in no particular order) unfortunately many I would liked to have listed don't seem to be available online. Hope you enjoy these.

• Warning - Jenny Joseph
• To a Snake - Denise Levertov
• Personal Helicon - Seamus Heaney
• Fifteen - William Stafford
• At Seven a Son - Elaine Feinstein
• Wind - Ted Hughes
• Mending Wall - Robert Frost
• First Things First - W H Auden
• To a Mouse - Robert Burns
• The Silken Tent - Robet Frost
• Rain on the Roof - Janet Frame
• To the Foot from its Child - Pablo Nerud...
• O World, Thou Choosest Not the Better Pa...
• Romance - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Stars and Planets - Norman MacCraig
• Prayer - Carol Ann Duffy

• Rachel Unthank and the Winterset - 'The Bairns' (2008)
• Duffy - 'Rockferry' (2008)
• Tim Finn, 'The Conversation'
• Gareth Farr, 'Tangaroa' (classical)
• Noah and the Whale, 'Peaceful, the world lays me down'
• Victoria Hart, 'The Lost Gershwin'
• Emmylou Harris, 'All I intended to be'
• Joan Baez, 'Day after Tomorrow'
• Pete Seeger, 'At 89'