Seven Things

  • 7 things to do before I die
    1. Learn to play the saxophone.
    2. Finish getting my black belt.
    3. Get a skipper's certificate, buy a yacht and sail it round the world.
    4. Watch earthrise from the Libya Montes.
    5. Do something perfectly so that, just once, I can feel satisfied with what I have done.
    6. Own an island.
    7. Comment my code.
  • 7 things I can't do
    1. Give birth.
    2. Play the saxophone.
    3. Juggle.
    4. Fill in forms and submit them on time.
    5. Comment my code.
    6. Relax.
    7. Volunteer to change a nappy.
  • 7 things that attract me to my spouse
    1. Being laughed at.
    2. Legs.
    3. Bottom.
    4. Honesty.
    5. Integrity
    6. Intelligence.
    7. Loyalty.
  • 7 things I say most often
    1. Fuck
    2. Actually
    3. Shit
    4. Stop it.
    5. Yes (I never learnt to say no :)).
    6. Coffee.
    7. More.
  • 7 books I love
    1. Winnie The Pooh.
    2. Swallows And Amazons.
    3. Rattletrap Car.
    4. Any old atlas.
    5. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
    6. Oxford English Dictionary
    7. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
  • 7 films I'd watch again and again
    1. High Noon
    2. Life of Brian
    3. Rocky Horror Picture Show
    4. Grease
    5. Alles rühig im Westen
    6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    7. Young Frankenstein
  • 7 people I'd like to join in
    1. hasn't everyone else already done this?

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Comments

15 responses to “Seven Things”

  1. No 😉 (to last item) xxx

  2. I learn that in spite of a number of invites, Jax is among those who have not.
    Probably can’t think of seven books she doesn’t love.

  3. i got to number 1 of the second 7 and remembered to check the author!

  4. What’s happened to your layout?
    I’ll get to it. Karen, consider yourself well and truly tagged 🙂

  5. I think she meant my layout. WordPress “repaired” my nested lists. :rant:

  6. Jenny Lesley avatar
    Jenny Lesley

    No because I was sulking that I wasn’t on anyone else’s list 🙂

  7. Jax you can’t make someone it until you have done yours.
    I am having these two.
    I claim:
    Jenny
    Karen.
    Nya nya nya nya nya

  8. Oh Tim, you should have been at Okehampton to sing along to Grease with us! It would be on my list too (if I were making one, which I’m not).

  9. I thought you’d come up with something interesting Tim 🙂

  10. I bags Alison too. That’s three nominations.

  11. She says she doesn’t want to do it 🙁

  12. Tough, it still counts. Should have kept quiet about it, shouldn’t she. Haha, Alison you’re it! 🙂

  13. Tim, I’ve already turned down Nic, I can turn you down too 😉

  14. But seeing as you asked so nicely ….

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