This seemed to fit in with the theme I was going for and as I seem to have missed out a day in my planning my ‘Five…‘ I decided to steal this idea from a Facebook post going around at the moment and add my own twist at the end!
Top 5 Books of 2009
My literary highlight of the year was meeting David Nicholls and Nick Hornby during the Durham Book Festival and telling David that he’d made me cry!
1. One Day by David Nicholls
2. Goodnight Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson
3. Against …

I am an excitable person but tonight has been almost too exciting! And I thought I would share my buzz as I’m too excited to go to sleep.
It was always going to be a fantastic night as it’s the Strictly Come Dancing final. I’m just a bit obsessed with Strictly! In week one I wanted Chris to be out as early as possible, I wouldn’t have believed it if you would have told me I’d be voting for him multiple times in the final. Chris went from novice to being …

Apologies for the tumbleweeds blowing through my blog this month. NaNoWriMo gave way to the flu and even when I’ve had an idea to blog the combination of hiding under the duvet and blogging aren’t always mutually compatible. My sister has just been round to feed me and drop off essential supplies – milk so I can keep myself in warm cups of tea, grapes because they have too many at their house (though it does nicely fit with the theme of being ill) and of course chocolate.
I did attempt …

Room 101, penned by Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, is the place where you are subjected to the worst things in the world. It seemed that Blog 101 might be an appropriate place to store all the things that I find unpleasant in this world. Unfortunately the BBC wouldn’t lend me Paul Merton, but in the style of Room 101 hopefully I can keep you entertained for the next couple of minutes with the things that I despise…
Parsnips

There are a few food items I can’t abide, including Marmite, but nothing offends …

When you aren’t sure what to blog then there are always Twitter trending topics to give you ideas. I will not be blogging on #twittercrush. It was #in10years that caught my attention. To be honest I don’t have a clue where I will be in 10 years time. Apart from hopefully being paid to write stuff, I’m more than happy to see where life takes me. Ten years ago I don’t know exactly where I thought I would be now. I know it was most definitely not here.
In fact today …

I used to watch lots of TV. I’ve watched all the soaps at some point or another. I must have spent well over a decade watching Saturday morning, and then Sunday morning, television. I remember the days of Going Live with @Schofe, and then Live & Kicking with @xxandip (The two wikipedia pages just brought back floods of memories… John Barrowman presenting ‘Electric Circus’!). T4 saw me through my hangover years. I’m not quite sure how many times I’ve seen each single episode of Friends.

But nowadays my viewing is much …