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Top five museums
(Wow I found this one hard!)

1. The Natural History Museum, London So I lvoe this museum because it's FULL of interesting things and it's a weird mix of quite modern displays and quite old ones and I love that the very building is part of the msueum (if you look at the animals carved in the stone one half shows extinct animals and the other half live ones, I've never been able to check that but I love the idea of it). One of my great sadnesses has always been that there is no longer a case about Bindweed and Honeysuckle as Flanders&Swann sang about.
   
2. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford It's just this magical place where you turn a corner and... oh I don't know you feel a bit like you could just walk into the past and not ntoice? They have a witch in a bottle! Which is absolutely my favourite exhibit label ever.
   
3. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow So partly this is because it's such a fascinating collection from all sorts of places but mostly it's because, again, the collection came before the building so bits of stonework are built INTO the walls and every window and view feels oddly like it's a part of the collection too (something I especially noticed in the Islamic collection with the beautiful carpets on the walls and then a huge picture window).
   
4. Geffrye Museum, London So this is sentiment a bit because I loved working there but it's so much more interesting than I'd have thought. interior design sounds dull but actually it's such a part of our lives that seeing it laid out and how our homes become the way they are... I just love it. And at Christmas time it gets even better.
   
5. Victoria & Albert Museum, London I was so torn between this and the British Museum, I love them both very much and could spend DAYS in either but the V&A wins out at least aprtly because now it's got the Theatre collection back and I love that. It's, again, an interesting collection thoughtfully laid out (and if you can play with their kids trails they're BRILLIANT).

Top five CS books!

1. The School at the Chalet I will always be thankful to M who bought me this for my 12th birthday. Always. I fell head over heels for Joey almost immediately and I still love the feeling of a new start this book has.
   
2. The Chalet School in Exile If anyone ever makes a TV series/film of the CS surely this one is the obvious choice. It's such an adventure and shows off the girls and the school and its ethos to such great advantage. The way they all hurt to leave Austria and the way we are shown good and bad Austrians even at this moment and the genuine terror I had the first time I read it that they wouldn't make it.
   
3. Gay From China at the Chalet School I didn't love this book till I read the HB. Before that it was a nice one which I liked because I played the cello and so did Gay and Jacynth but the uncut version had me in floods of tears on the train when Auntie dies :-(
   
4. Joey and Co in Tirol Despite the impression I think my fanfiction has sometimes given I love the Maynard family as a whole and seeing them on holiday is really nice. Plus I like the Richardsons qutie a lot too even if their backstory is... interesting?
   
5. Jane and the Chalet School This was actually one of the earlier books I read and I guess I like it so much for the friendships and relationships it shows. I like Stacie coming back, I love Jack's relationship with Len as Len tries to help her stand on her own two feet, I LOVE how much Jack and Jane confuse each other. Plus there's the whole theatre connection.

And from frayer

Top five musicals
(okay so I was finding this almost impossibly hard so I limited it a bit, they're all things I've seen on stage and it's more favourites than best maybe)

1. A Little Night Music There had to be some Sondheim in this list and actually I've only ever seen two *g* but A Little Night Music is funny and clever and moving and has incredible songs.
   
2. Phantom of the Opera I wish I knew why I love this so much. I mean I loved it for YEARS before I'd ever managed to see it and the two times I saw it weren't the best performances ever but soemthing about the story and the scale of the music and anyway Music of the Night and Phantom of the Opera are both songs that make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
   
3. Guys and Dolls It's fun and it has a great story and characters I care about and I love it whichever production or film or whatever I'm watching. I like the gangsters and I love that there's a heroine called Sarah and maybe it's very rarely as good as it is in my head but that's life.
   
4. Starlight Express So this and Saturday Night Fever somewhat share a space as being musicals that tipped me over into being a full on theatre fan who'd spend any spare money and/or time on shows and plays. Both of them have the spectacle and the emotion but oh I remember the smile on my face the first time I came out of Starlight Express and that's such an amazing feeling.
   
5. Rent And talking about feelings. When I saw this with school I didn't know what was coming at all and I just sat in a sort of stunned silence and I love all of the characters and I love the cynicism and then the optimism and just I LOVE it.

hmmm_tea's challenged me quite a lot I fear but here's the first one:

Things to find down the side of the sofa

1. Money Alright it's obvious but it's still nice when you do.
   
2. Jewellery I have a tendency to fiddle with my rings or necklaces and I did once entirely lose a favourite ring and discover it weeks later under a sofa cushion.
   
3. Screwdriver Which I did find once at a friends house, amusingly not only could noone figure out why it was there nobody actually thoguht it belonged to them either.
   
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5. An entrance into Narnia? Okay so obviously at this point I've run out of ideas :P but you never know really. I mean judging by The Carpet People and The Borrowers there could be almost anything down there!