What's War Horse about? I know the others, but not that one.

1. Pizza
2. Salad
3. Haloumi cheese fried, with pomegranate salad
4. Salad
5. Haloumi cheese fried with capers and pickled lemon
6. Salad
7. Cretan stuffed vegetables, preferably made and eaten in Crete. In fact ANY food made and eaten in Crete.
8. Salad
9. Grilled goats cheese with roast coeur de pigeon tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette
10. SALAD

You top ten favourite holiday places

Okay, so I haven't actually been to all of these places. I've been to some of them and the rest are places I think I would like to visit.

1. Monterey, California
2. New Orleans, Louisiana
3. Florence
4. Rome
5. Venice
6. Sicily
7. Portland, Oregon
8. Some place in England where there are moors like in Wuthering Heights.
9. Gatlinburg, Tennessee
10. Greece

next: ten favorite pop songs

haha this is fun.
i cant sleep so am taking a turn..

1. laying my head on a mans chest while sleeping
2. morning snuggling under warm covers
3. summer rain, walking barefoot in wet grass
4. walking barefoot in sand
5. feeling salty ocean air while lying on beach
6. deep passionate kisses and sex
7. my down goose down comforter
8. babies heads (lol so soft)
9. full body massage
10.having my hair stroked softly

not in any order. realized i only did
touch...so we can still use other senses

Next up-favorite visual beauty/sights

wow Lamps..are you a chef? i never had those
or maybe you are a food critic...hmmm

pizza and salad-salad-salad would be in my top
ten too.

Ha this one's easy!

1. Lord of the Rings
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Lord of the Rings...

you get the picture

ok seriously

1. Lord of the Rings
2. The Hobbit
3. Adventures of Narnia
4. All the Smiley spy books by John Le Carre (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy…)
5. The Merrily Watkins series by Phil Rickman
6. The first umpteen books in the Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell
7. The Trial by Kafka
8. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
9. The Renko books by Martin Cruz Smith (Gorky Park, Red Square…)
10. The Harry Hole books by Jo Nesbo (The Snowman, Nemesis…)


Draggers from what you say of War Horse I think I’d have to avoid it, anything teary with animals in it I just can’t bear (and I can imagine how heart wrenching a movie about a horse being sent to war would be)

Lol and I love how you put your home as number one in visual beauty/sights, that’s wonderful! And ok where are the Iguazu waterfalls????? Hm yeah stew, you’re right, especially the second day. He he too many things to choose from.

Xoxo I’m not a chef, can’t really cook to tell the truth (hence REALLY easy things like fried/grilled cheese) but yeah salad is a must every day.

Love your list of sensations – got to agree with number ten especially, that would be right up near the top on my list.

HIC I just noticed your signature quote. LOL do you read Kierkegaard for fun? I think I’ve read your quote ten times trying to work out what he means there, sounds like what goes on in my own head

Lilies, is Domino the one by Van the Man? Good one! Apart from that and I’m Too Sexy though, I don’t know any of the others who are they by?



Ok next category: top ten flowers

LL, yeah, I read Kierkegaard for fun. Lol, mostly I just have this weird habit of reading The Sickness Unto Death every couple years. (T tells me it's on my prohibited reading list for now, though. ) Have also read Fear and Trembling, Edifying Discourses, and have tried parts of some of his more difficult works (Either/Or, Concept of Anxiety)-- but they've mostly proven indecipherable or over my head. The quote in my signature is from Sickness Unto Death. It has to be one of the more convoluted and wrenchingly worded sentences out there, but I like how it seems to have a brilliant thought in it that kind of glimmers at you after about ten readings.

Okay, favorite sweets! Yumm. . .

1. dark chocolate (Lindt, 85% cacao)
2. bread pudding
3. sweet potato pie w whipped cream
4. cheesecake
5. cannoli
6. apple fritters
7. chocolate frozen custard with oreo and reese's toppings
8. banana pudding
9. blueberry oatmeal cookies
10. devil's food cake

next: top ten things to love about fall

1. german shepherd
2. narwhals
3. piglets (they are so cute!)
4. koala bears
5. white tiger
6. giraffes
7. turtles
8. llamas
9. elephants
10. white alligator

top ten poems

lol, draggers I actually used to think narwhals were mythical creatures until a few months ago when I happened to stumble across a picture of a real one! Most amazing discovery of my life.

Oooh poems, that's a hard one. I don't read poetry, let's see what I can remember from my schooldays.

1. The Ancient Mariner by Coleridge
2. Something about going down to the sea today, by John Donne????
3. Every poem in the Lord of the Rings
4. The Hollow Men by Eliot
5. The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is that Eliot again?
6. Ooh I'm struggling now what about Paradise Lost by Milton
7. Oh and Kublai Khan by Colerdidge
8. Help I can't remember anymore don't want to cheat by looking on the internet, oh what about Paradise Regained by Milton don't much like it though
9. Ooh yeah Tales of Innocence and something else, William Blake
10. I give up, I know there are others I like I just can't remember

PHEW!!!!! Ok: top ten favourite clothes

1. Woolly tights
2. Mittens
3. Scarf
4. Flared jeans
5. Denim mini skirt
6. Merino wool jumper
7. Tunic (like you'd wear with leggings)
8. Duffle coat
9. Wolly hat
10. V neck cardigan

I prefer cold weather, clearly...

Top ten heroines in books/films?

1. Jane Eyre
2. Romola de' Bardi ( Romola, George Eliot)
3. Kate ( The Movie Goer, Walker Percy)
4. Hester Prynn ( The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorn)
5. Margaret Schlegel ( Howard's End, E.M. Forster)
6. Lucy Honeychurch ( A Room With A View, E.M. Forster
7. Scarlett O'Hara ( Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell)
8. Constance Calvert ( Almost Innocent, Sheila Bosworth)
9. Sylvie ( Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson)
10. Dinah ( The Red Tent, Anita Diamont)

next: favorite sounds

HIC, no heroes, all heroines?

Aw Draggers I wanted to do this one, you've obviously gotten out of bed before me today You do have some unusual sounds that you like - what does a horse clearing its nose sound like? Or is it what it means to you rather than the quality of the sound itself? Funny how different things affect people differently, lawnmowers and ticking clocks would drive me crazy (though actually I CAN sense a feeling of peace and calm and all's well with the world when I think of a lawnmower on a summer's evening - you are very creative you know!)

LOL I think I'll add my list anyway he he.

1. Running water
2. Rain pattering on trees
3. Rain on a tin roof
4. Rain on glass windows
5. Birdsong
6. Wind in tall grass
7. Strong wind in tall trees
8. Thunder
9. Choral music
10. Christmas carols


Will leave your suggestion for next top ten: candy.

1. do things like completing these 10 points
2. facebook
3. search google to see why I'm not normal
4. confirm all the reasons that google says why I am not normal
5. go onto old T's facebook and website - miss her and then think why did I do that?!?!?!
6. think about ways to improve the world and then realise I'm not president
7. write poems that I can't share with anyone
8. think about ways in which I should use my time more effectively
9. think of all the times that I have not used my time effectively
10. waste more time thinking of ways in which I will not repeat that process so as to not waste anymore time because I really don't have time to waste, so not answering yahoo questions and doing these 10 point things is something I need to work on.

Top 10 tourist attractions/places you would like to visit if you were a millionaire and you could do ANYTHING or go ANYWHERE.

quote:

10. waste more time thinking of ways in which I will not repeat that process so as to not waste anymore time because I really don't have time to waste, so not answering yahoo questions and doing these 10 point things is something I need to work on.

Great list BTW.



Draggers I get the sound you're talking about now, it's very distinctive. Not sure I'd put it as one of my top ten, but I see why you have. And LOL about the wind



Hm. Tear jerker songs. I try and avoid them mostly.

1. Bridge Over Troubled Waters
2. ...

Oh ack I don't even want to think about it, it's too sad. Will let someone else take this category.

I'm not sure I can get through ten either. Perhaps we can find 10 between us if we try hard enough...

1. 'Yours' by Dionne Warwick
2. ...no that's enough for me too...

(((( AV ))))

Maybe one at a time?

3. Knights in White Satin

Edited to add: Oh duh I think that's meant to be 'nights'

(((Lamplighter)))

Sorry for the delay. Had to go and wipe my eyes
over the 'Yours' track!! Ooo those lyrics:-

They say that love dont last forever
Now I understand
It was only yesterday
You held me in your hands...

gives me goosebumps just thinking about it!!

Love the Moody Blues though. Yes 'nights in
white satin' from The days of Future Past.

Anyway..
4. You dont bring me flowers.

....or is it Passed? Never should have thought
of that other one.

See what these sad songs do to us Lamps? Turn
us into wrecks!!

Have a tissue AV.

Hm, swallow several times, lump in throat gets bigger.

5. Love Don't Live Here Anymore.

I don't think I know Yours. I know other of her songs are really powerful and sad too (Say a Little Prayer gets me everytime, hey maybe that can be number 6.)


And what about By the Time I get to Phoenix?

C'mon AV, we've got to finish this one, I think I'm about to run out of tissues.

Anyone else going to help us out????

Thanks Lamps...

I know this one's a bit cheddary but: it is a
VERY intensely personal one for me:-

6. Mandy.

Hmmmmmmmm Mandy, ok yeah I can see how that would be a tear jerker. I'll reserve judgement on the singer though

I just made a BIG mistake, went and Youtubed a song, not a good idea.

Oh you have to try and hear it!! But have a
hankie at the ready...
Maybe it's on youtube IDK.

I don't think I can manage any more for now,
sniff, sniff, weep, weep...

Oh okay then, just one more...
7. Nothing compares to you.

It even made the singer weep for heavens sake!!

Oh lol, there's a joke about her, something to the effect of, if she smiled it would ruin her career. Sorry, I'm obviously od'ing on tear jerky feelings here and having a reaction.

Let's see, what about Oh yeah I'll make number 8 the one above

8. By the Time I Get to Phoenix

9. With or Without You - U2

Only one more to go!

I got it!

10. The Way We Were

PHEW FINALLY!!!!!!!

Ok top ten favourite animals (or if anyone wants to have another go at ten tear jerkers, please feel free

Awww come on now ladies!!

I'd like to know your top ten screen or tv or
stage heart throbs!! Ten sexiest men!!

I'll sit this one out if you don't mind...

AV you haven't been paying attention! I'll take my animals category away, so we can do your top ten sexy men one. But I'm not starting!!!

1. Raspberry
2. Chocolate
3. Vanilla
4. Caramel
5. Mint
6. Peach
7. Chilli
8. Beef
9. Orange
10.Strawberry.

next. The top ten sayings or phrases that annoy
you the most!!

Lilies-- lol @ 4. Also, you forgot to list the theme for the next top ten!

((pf))

Pick the next theme and you gets the first go,
hows about that??

Here's an easy one: top ten animals

((((( PF))))) go for it!

Oops, edited to add another bracket on your hug, can't stand it when they don't match

1. Seeing Baby's happy grin every morning.
2. Kissing H hello and goodbye everyday on his way to and from work.
3. Talking with my daughter.
4. Coffee!!!
5. Checking this forum.
6. Sit on my porch a bit for some fresh air.
7. Read.
8. Pray.
9. Waste a little time on facebook.
10. Sleep

That one was fun. Next: top favorite characters from children's books, T.V. shows, or movies.

((((pf)))) good to see you!!
1. dogs - particularly my boydog
2. balinese cats
3. goldfish
4. horses
5. piglets
6. birds
7. polar bears
8. otters
9. bunnies - although they are a total pest in Oz
10. Oz native animals

Gee pf, your list is HARD!!!

((Monte))

Thank you for those. I guess I was just outside
the top ten!!LOL. I'll settle for No.11 !!

Okay; can anyone admit to their top TEN!
"Guilty Pleasures"!! If not, just as many as
you are willing to admit to!!!!

as many as I'll admit too anyway

1. Dirty Dancing (no-one puts Baby in a corner !)
2. Pretty Woman - just awwww
3. Ben and Jerry's Phish Food yoghurt (been known to polish a tub off all to meself )
4. Toast and marmite in bed
5. Ice cream floats made with full sugar Coke
6-10 remain locked under my official secrets act