Ten Things – August

Number 8 in my monthly series of “Ten Things” for 2011. Each month I list one thing from each of ten categories which will remain the same for each month of 2011. So at the end of the year you have ten lists of twelve things about me.

  1. Something I Like: Sunshine
  2. Something I Won’t Do: Eat sheeps’ eyes or tripe
  3. Something I Want To Do: Win £2M (no-one said I wasn’t allowed to dream!)
  4. A Blog I Like: Norn’s Notebook
  5. A Book I Like: AN Wilson, After the Victorians
  6. Some Music I Like: William Byrd, The Battell
  7. A Food I Like: Smoked Fish, especially eel
  8. A Food or Drink I Dislike: Absinthe
  9. A Word I Like: Halberd
  10. A Quote I Like: The gap between strategic rhetoric and operational reality remains dangerously wide. [Prof. Gordon Hewitt]