(Things I don't have to do before I die)

• Read an entire Jane Austen novel
• Visit a sushi restaurant
• Like my brother
• Read more that the first 8 pages of Finnegan's Wake
• Fit into size 10 trousers again
• Swim with dolphins
• Marry

• Food
  • American hard gums
  • jelly beans
  • scampi and lemon Knick-Knacks
  • mashed potato with far too much butter and cheese
  • fried egg sandwiches
  • white chocolate mice - which don't qualify as chocolate, see below
  • (chocolate does not count, it's a health food)
• Music
  • Status Quo played very loud (It doesn't really matter which track, they all use the same three chords anyway)
  • The Darkness
  • assorted hymns, legacy of a chapel upbringing
  • almost anything from the Sixties (e.g., a...

• Angie Pangie
• Dolly Daydream
• Griselda
• Noss (short for rhinoceros)
• Hog
• Butterfly

• take a world tour visiting *everyone* on my friends list (but especially you of course...)
• buy a home with enough room for books and crafting and having friends for dinner, which would be at the centre of
• the community I'd set up for as many of my friends as wanted to live there and make art and stuff togther
• set up a fund to give a food bank a regular income
• buy a certain friend the most fabulous pair of shoes her sweet heart could desire
• spend a Sunday giving every single person in the city centre a tub of bubbles, a silly hat and a feather boa

and not counting the ones that were more than crushes

• Davy Jones (Monkees)
• Cynlais, whose name was a constant source of embarrassment to me but who was a good kisser
• Miss Ormond, my English teacher
• the cute girl who worked on the sweet counter at Woolworths with me on Saturday mornings
• Cat Stevens (before he changed his name)
• Janet Suzman
• Robert Powell
• Debbie Harry
• Chrissie Hynde
• Patti Smith
• Goran Visnjic
• Sharleen Spiteri
• Rosie Lugosi
• Leonard Cohen
• Amy Ray

(in no particular order of preference)

• iron
• vacuum
• talk to my sister-in-law
• open a tin of salmon (or indeed have anything to do with said salmon)
• fill in an appraisal form at work
• shop in town on a Saturday
• visit the Trafford Centre
• wear high heels
• listen to rap (with rare exceptions)
• clean up cat puke
• feed a troll
• have my tongue pierced
• grow up :)

• learned to ride a bike
• passed my driving test
• been to Africa
• drunk a mint julep
• seen the Pacific
• owned my own home
• been married
• had (or wanted to have) a baby
• swum with dolphins
• been to me (oh, no, sorry, that was Charlene...)
• swallowed sushi (some got as far as my mouth once, but didn't make it down)
• made an article of clothing
• paid into a pension fund
• broken a bone (as far as I know - you can't always tell about the teeny ones in the feet)
• been to jail (as an inmate)
• been arrested
• been to a health spa