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Seven Things

1 January 2006 by Tim

  • 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 RΓΌhig 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

  1. Karen b says

    1 January 2006 at 11:25

    No πŸ˜‰ (to last item) xxx

  2. Tim says

    1 January 2006 at 11:55

    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. HelenHaricot says

    1 January 2006 at 12:31

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

  4. Jax says

    1 January 2006 at 12:48

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

  5. HelenHaricot says

    1 January 2006 at 14:03

    what our layout?

  6. Tim says

    1 January 2006 at 14:07

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

  7. Jenny Lesley says

    1 January 2006 at 18:12

    No because I was sulking that I wasn’t on anyone else’s list πŸ™‚

  8. Tim says

    1 January 2006 at 19:00

    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

  9. Alison says

    1 January 2006 at 20:05

    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).

  10. Jan says

    1 January 2006 at 21:53

    I thought you’d come up with something interesting Tim πŸ™‚

  11. Tim says

    1 January 2006 at 22:04

    I bags Alison too. That’s three nominations.

  12. Jax says

    1 January 2006 at 22:08

    She says she doesn’t want to do it πŸ™

  13. Tim says

    1 January 2006 at 22:15

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

  14. Alison says

    1 January 2006 at 22:32

    Tim, I’ve already turned down Nic, I can turn you down too πŸ˜‰

  15. Alison says

    1 January 2006 at 22:42

    But seeing as you asked so nicely ….

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