100 Things That Still Make Being Me Just That Bit Better... Is Done!
So that is it, really - it's taken me well over a year, but I've come up with 100 ...
1. Next of Kin, by Eric Frank Russell
2. Poetic Licence
3. Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde (You Too Can Speak Gaelic)
4. the San Zhi Resort
5. Anzac Day
6. metaphors and similes
7. "Very Like a Whale" by Ogden Nash
8. the Funeral March by Chopin
9. dentistry
10. a Muddle and Go Nowhere
11. Von Smallhausen, from Allo Allo
12. Vampire Bunnies in Outer Space
13. sillage
14. Samsara and Tresor
15. Gorecki - Sorrowful Songs
16. icons
17. cheese on toast
18. collective nouns
19. William Shakespeare's Cat
20. Judy Horacek's couch cartoon
21. Sir Boyle Roach and the Reverend Willam Spooner
22. power
23. the southern night sky
24. my Memorandum Book
25. a quote by Sydney Smith
26. sky blue pink
27. 'Pasttime With Good Company'
28. Alice
29. the police car challenge on Top Gear
30. pavlova
31. archaisms and old-fashioned words
32. The Fairy Fellers' Master-Stroke
33. The Gruen Transfer
34. the Big Beer Ad
35. the extraterrestrial Names List from Names by Paul Dickson
36. swithering
37. multicoloured pens
38. megafauna
39. sunshine through clouds
40. Georgette Heyer's Regency World
41. Eternity
42. Forty-Two
43. 'I've Done All the Dumb Things' by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls
44. the DDR Museum in Dresden
45. tatterdemalion
46. Tom Adams' cover art
47. the Indian Love Call
48. beads
49. 'Next' by Barry Purves
50. The Art of Coarse Acting by Michael Green
51. Gossamer
52. Costume Cavalcade by Henny Harald Hansen
53. hurt-comfort
54. Kidfic
55. Schadenfreude
56. 'We'll All Go Together When We Go' by Tom Lehrer
57. How To Write a Science Fiction Novel chart
58. chocolataire
59. our Hills Hoist
60. botanical art
61. the cartoons/animation of Winsor Mckay
62. Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid... and the urban legend books by Jan Harald Brunvand
63. 'Baby Elephant Walk'
64. Madame Arcati
65. Serendipity, Fortuosity, and Happy Happenstances
66. My worry monk
67. "I spent half my life worrying about things that never happened."
68. decrepitude
69. Boxing Day
70. gobbledygook
71. The glissando at the start of 'Rhapsody in Blue'
72. Southern Seven 5... the covers
73. vegemite
74. Fred McGherkin-Squirter
75. Tales from the Far Side... the animated specials.
76. Pierre-Joseph Redoute's flowers
77. The Worst Jobs in History
78. 'Jabberwocky'
79. 'The Recessional' by Rudyard Kipling
80. MOR Basil And Grape handcream and body butter
81. old cookbooks
82. sweet chilli & coconut chicken
83. the Marsden Archive
84. the song of Australian magpies
85. that there is such a word as lethologica...
86. GIMP
87. 'girt'
88. my leather bookweight
89. Cathy
90. my big woolly scarf
91. Chrysanda Flamande, from The Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly
92. The lithographs by David Roberts of Egypt and the Holy Lands
93. HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu (for beginning readers)
94. Peacocks in Space, or What the Over-Dressed Rebel is Wearing For the Revolution
95. Anna Russell's 'The Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis)'
96. The Spooky Men's Chorale and 'The Affirmations of St Kevin the Usual'
97. my waving cats
98. The Utah Baby Name Site
99. The Diagram Prize
100. our white violets
(See the '100 things' tag for all of the posts, of course :) Quite an eclectic little list, isn't it? And yet, it definitely says things about me...
However, I have to say that doing this list of "things that make being me just that little bit better" has, I think, been good for me; I know I got a buzz each time (well, I would, just thinking about something that makes me happy... makes me happy, yes?)
So though I'm retiring the "100 things" tag, I'm keeping "makes life better" and you'll probably find me doing the odd post here and there about good things, both new and old, as I think of them and realise that they do...