Nothing (much) To Report

Things I learnt in 2005:

• I do like beer, ale and lager.
• And bourbon isn't that much like (so far) unpalatable whiskey.
• Southern Comfort is quite quaffable as well.

(I don’t drink that much, honestly!)

• I don’t like green olives, but black olives I can stomach.
• Goat’s cheese tastes like goats. Not actually been near enough a goat to taste one though.
• I like electronica. Depeche Mode are a bit of a revelation.
• Fruity teas may not taste especially fruity, but they’re nice all the same.
• Anything more than a teaspoon of coffee per cup, and more than 2 cups a day sends me a little loopy and buggers up my sleep pattern.
• That last jar of Co op Fair Trade coffee I bought seems unusually strong, hence the point above.
• The Co op's own brand of chocolate is well tasty.
• Badly dyed shoes, when soaked with rain with leave nasty stains on my feet, which don’t wash off with any sort of ease.
• Gravel shouldn’t be walked in heels, or bare footed – that’s a point I already knew.
• Laptops are the male canine’s dangly bits.
• Ditto (working) wifi, which I have to pronounce whiffy and the not the usual wi-fi (as in hi-fi). It’s a sad affliction I have.
• What del.icio.us is all about.
• How to IRC.
• The knitting that I learnt as a kid bares absolutely no relation to the knitting that the rest of the world, er, knits. I was only ever taught how to cast on and how to do one stitch, which it seems was a strange cross between the purl and knit stitches. Hence the only project I created was a Holey, Never-ending, Multi-Coloured (in Singular Blocks of Primary Colours), Still Attached to the Knitting Needle, Amazingly Increasing and Decreasing Scarf! Hoping that the next scarf I produce will be a little more practical, it’ll be from a big knit kit, which I picked up for myself in HobbyCraft but wrapped up and labelled it from my mum for me to open on xmas day, thus keeping alive the tradition of the “giver” of presents being truly surprised that they bought it.
• Crane flies can cause sleepless nights, and although I have no scientific data to back this up, icky colds.
• What not to wear. Oh, wait. No, that wasn’t me.
• That I really shouldn’t be let near eBay, but I fear this is a lesson that will go unheeded this year.
• What that piece of music by The Penguin Café Orchestra that I’ve loved for years is called, Perpetuum Mobile, for those who are curious.
• I don't mind flying, even when the turbulence is really bad - it just felt like going over pot-holes to me. Lots of pot-holes admittedly.
• What the Mediterranean Sea looks and feels like.
• That I can’t sleep in un-air conditioned rooms in Spain whilst sharing with someone else.