Back in April 2005 when I had just started writing this blog I decided to put togther this list of my favourite things.

This I revised further in May of 2007- and the whole thing has taken so much time I have decided to give it another outing today.

In Strictly Alphabetical Order
And I reserve the right to add and subtract at will.
Try making one yourself- its an amazing exercise.

Adam Gopnik’s
Paris to the Moon

Alan Davidson’s
North Atlantic Seafood

Alhambra Palace

Babettes Feast

Ballymaloe

Being 63

Being in the shade
in the hot sun

Being on the Radio

Bill Bryson’s
Travel Books

Bookshops

Bridges

Brocantes

Brothers and Sisters

Buying Furniture

Caitriona’s Photoblog

Clive Nunn’s
Black Limestone Table

Constance Spry

Cooking

Crab

Croissants

Dark Chocolate

Daughter Caitriona

Daughter Deirdre

Daughter Eileen

Doing Crosswords

Driving in France

Dublin Bay Prawns

Eating Mayonnaise

Ecco Shoes

Elizabeth David

Fatherhood

Frank Mc Kelvey

Fred Astaire

French Chanson

Garbo

Garlic

Georges Brassens

Getz/Gilberto
Bossa Nova

Gewürztraminer

Gilbert and Sullivan

Gin and Tonic
on a Sunday morning

Giovanna Garzoni’s
Food Paintings

Giving Dinner Parties

Griffith Place

Guys and Dolls

Having Really Short Hair

Hot Gin and Lemon

Hugh Fearnley
Whittingstall

Insomniac Creativity

Internet Clothes
Shopping

Irish Antique Shops

Jacques Brel

James Taylor

Jane Austen

Jane Grigson

Joni Mitchell

Joyce’s Ulysses

Judy Collins

Judy Dench

Julian Barnes

Kate and Anna
McGarrigle
(and all the
Wainwrights,
mostly)

Kir (especially on
an empty stomach)

Lambs Kidneys

Lambs Liver

Lands End Shirts

Le Grand Meulnes
by Alain Fournier

Lemon Tart

Losing Weight

Lucia di Lammermoor

Lyric fm (usually)

Madrigallery

Manzanilla Sherry (well chilled)

Making Bread

Making Mayonnaise

Marcel Pagnol

Mashed Potato

Milo’s
“Smoke Away” Story

Misty Mornings
in France

Monet

My Brothers and
Sisters in Law

My collection of Glass

My Eileen Grey Table

My Grand Nephews
and Nieces

My Green
Gustavsberg Plate

Nieces and Nephews

Not being Overdrawn

Notre Presbytère

Novels of Dornford Yates

Oklahoma !

Old French Pub Glass

Old Friends

Our Birch Tree

Patricia Wells

Patrick O Brian’s
Aubrey /Maturin novels.

Picpoul de Pinet

Poached Apricots

Poached Eggs

Puns

Rasteau in Provence

Red Wines from
Southern Rhone

Retirement

Sally Barne’s Kippers

San Severino

Savon d’Alep

Seamus Heaney’s
Clearances

Seven Brides for
Seven Brothers

Shorter Oxford
Dictionary

Sile

Sleep

Smell of Real Tomatoes

Smoked Salmon
with Scrambled Eggs

Stem Ginger in Syrup

Some Like it Hot

St. Roch

Sunday Miscellany
(Sometimes)

Sunday Observer

Swimming Pools

Theatre Antique d’Orange

The (English) Independent

The Antiques Roadshow

The end of Winter

The Good Food Guide

The Magic Flute

The Marriage of Figaro

The New Yorker

The Smell of Turf Burning

The Weekend
(Since Retiring)

Thèzan-lès-Béziers

Three Rivers of France
by Freda White

Tom Lehrer

Under Milk Wood

Waterford Market
Jenkins Lane

W.B. Yeates;
Song of the
Wandering Aengus

White Bowls of Coffee

White Burgundy

White Peaches

Wild Strawberries

Writing on the Computer