March 2010 101 things I love right now

♥ Blackbirds singing in my garden ♥ Cabbage ♥ Green beans ♥ Toast ♥ Rachmaninov ♥ Classical music ♥ Classic fm ♥

Cream cakes ♥ The colour of my hair ♥ E-mailing friends ♥ My mac ♥ Cheese & Onion Crisps ♥ Pepsi ♥ Daffodils ♥

My car ♥ The colour purple ♥ Eggs ♥ Cheesy biscuits ♥ Bombay Blue gin and full strength tonic ♥ Fish and chips from Papas ♥ Making scrapbook pages ♥ Taking pictures♥ Hot cross buns ♥ Boots ♥ My brothers ♥ Lipstick ♥ Bacon♥

My craft room ♥ The i player ♥ The chandelier in my craft room ♥ The chandelier in our gazebo ♥ A high tide♥

My hair straightners ♥ Flowers in the house ♥ Wind chimes ♥ Dangly things ♥ Greyhounds ♥ Cuddling Pepsi ♥

♥ Strawberries, bananas and cream ♥ Making time to cook ♥ Fabric ♥ Leerdammer cheese ♥ Watching the sea ♥

Being in Looe ♥ My bed ♥ A tidy kitchen ♥ Strawberry ice cream with cream on the top ♥ Clotted cream ice cream in Looe ♥ Pictures of the sea ♥ Making cards ♥ My mac ♥ White bed linen ♥ Clean bed linen ♥ Clear worktops ♥

Going to a concert ♥ Shoes ♥ Potatoes ♥ Ordering stuff from the internet ♥ Watching a dvd in the evening ♥ Magazines ♥ Sewing stuff ♥ Lavender anything ♥ Going out for a meal with friends ♥ Clothes ♥ Beethoven ♥ Mozart ♥ A manicure ♥

Knitting flowers ♥ Christie Moore ♥ Hats ♥ Van Morrison ♥ Caesar salad ♥ Shopping in Waitrose
♥ Cashel blue cheese ♥ Fruity shower gel ♥ Going to the hairdresser ♥ A pedicure ♥ Making stuff ♥ The smell of bread baking ♥ De-caff instant coffee ♥ Shortbread biscuits ♥ J2O any pink one ♥

Needle felting ♥ Making flowers on my flower loom ♥ Making books using my bind-it-all ♥ Our new tornado red Golf ♥ Snowdrops ♥ My new leather jacket ♥ Watching chickens in the field ♥ Lunch with a girlfriend ♥ Craft blogs ♥

Handbags ♥ Going to John Lewis in Cribbs Causeway ♥ Mooching in a craft shop ♥ Tea ♥ My i pod ♥ A new necklace ♥ Paul working from home ♥ New earrings ♥ Bowls…my name is Miriam and I love bowls ♥ Boxes with lids ♥

♥♥Making lists♥♥

99 random things about me

1. I slept under the stars
2. I watched a meteor shower
3. I sang a solo
4. I have been to Paris
5. I have lived in a foreign country
6. I have watched a lightning storm
7. I have grown my own vegetables
8. I have hitch hiked
9. I have taken a sick day when I could have struggled in
10. I held a very new lamb
11. I have been skinny dipping
12. I have seen a total eclipse
13. I can drive
14. I have stayed up all night at a ball
15. I have watched a sunrise
16. I have been on a cruise (if a mini cruise counts)
17. I have seen Niagara Falls
18. I have been transported in an ambulance (inc. blue flashing lights)
19. I have been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
20. I have donated blood
21. I have seen the Changing of the Guards in London
22. I have been a passenger on a motorbike
23. I have had a baby
24. I have 2 mobile phones
25. I have been stung by a bee
26. I have been through IVF
27. I have driven on the rh side of the road
28. I have driven in the snow in Canada
29. Eating pineapple gives me mouth ulcers
30. The only canned soup I eat is mushroom potage.
31. but I love any soup I make myself!
32. I love green beans
33. And Caesar salad
34. And all shell fish
35. I use my mac every day
36. I have a greyhound
37. I am afraid of the dentist
38. I love having my nails done
39. I would love to have gone to art college
40. I research our family tree
41. I love being in bed
42. I love Bombay Blue gin and full strength tonic
43. I find chopping veg very therapeutic
44. I am terrified of moths
45. I get vertigo
46. I can swim
47. I wish I could sing well
48. I love to be by the water but have no desire to be on it
49. I love to watch a film but
50. I don’t like going to the cinema
51. Purple is my favourite colour
52. I love to wear a hat
53. I believe in the power of prayer
54. I can be very indecisive
55. I was born & brought up a catholic
56. Lots of my close family died in March
57. My hair gets curlier as I grow older
58. I don’t think Leonard Cohen’s music is depressing
59. I have my ears pierced
60. I hardly ever sleep well
61. I have bad dreams
62. I can knit
63. I hated my name when I was young
64. I have four names: Miriam Mary Bernadette Therese
65. My middle school was a convent
66. I was bullied at secondary school because I had a posh accent
67. I have had shingles
68. I was on tv once, it was a news item
69. I watch “Bridges of Madison County” every year around valentine’s night.
70. I have never broken a bone
71. I miss my mum
72. I took a road trip…two weeks 4 adults 2 kids staying In motels…  Montreal to New England…
73. I wear purple and red together
74. I was with someone when they died
75. I have five brothers
76. I drink tea in the morning
77. I drink de-caff coffee
78. I like to shop in Waitrose
79. I can’t resist buying bowls
80. I have a passion for handbags
81. I let Pepsi sleep on my bed
82. I love listening to Christie Moore and
83. Van Morrison, I could never choose between them
84. I like to drink plain water
85. I love to eat fresh coconut
86. I am a great aunt
87. I love my job
88. I like to drive fast
89. I have a blog
90. I said I would never blog
91. I craft to relax
92. I love to drink Pinot Grigio
93. I have worn the same perfume ‘for ever’
94. I have an I pod
95. I can sew
96. I have moved 20 times in my life
97. I have had hypnotherapy
98. I make lists
99. I have loved doing this, Its taken months!