Back in January I set out to write ten things each month so that at the end of this year you knew 120 more things about me: things I like and things I dislike. Just for the record, and seeing as it's the end of the year, here is the complete list …

Things I Like Sex Cats Steam Trains Koi Nudity Roses Beer Sunshine Photography Tea Beaujolais Nouveau Fresh Snow

Things I Won't Do Play Golf Sailing Ballroom Dancing Bungee Jumping Wearing DJ/Tuxedo Wear Jacket and Tie on Holiday Parachute Eat Sheep's Eyes or Tripe Take any more Exams Halloween Plumbing Go Horse Racing

Something I want to do Visit Japan Take a Trip on Orient Express Expand my Family History Travel Wick/Thurso to Penzence by Train Have Acupuncture Have a Nudist Holiday Visit Scilly Isles Win £2M Get Rid of my Depression Fly on Flightdeck of an Airliner Visit Norway & Sweden Write a Book

Blogs I Like Katyboo Emily Nagoski :: Sex Nerd The Magistrates Blog Art by Ren Adams Whoopee Aetiology Not Exactly Rocket Science Norn's Notebook The Loom Bad Science Cocktail Party Physics Postsecret

Books I Like Anthony Powell; A Dance to the Music of Time Brad Warner; Sex, Sin & Zen Mary Roach; Stiff Lewis Carroll; Alice in Wonderland Brown, Fergusson, Lawrence & Lees; Tracks & Signs of the Birds of Britain & Europe John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie Diary of Samuel Pepys AN Wilson, After the Victorians Florence Greenberg; Jewish Cookery Nick McCamley; Secret Underground Cities Douglas Adams, Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Charles Nicholls; The Reckoning

Music I Like Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here Beatles, Abbey Road Yes, Close to the Edge Monteverdi, 1610 Vespers Caravan, In the Land of Pink & Grey Carl Orff, Carmina Burana Amanda Palmer, Map of Tasmania William Byrd, The Battell Pink Floyd, Learning to Fly Moody Blues, Octave Handel, Messiah JS Bach, Christmas Oratorio

Food I Like Curry Pasta Sausage Butter Beans Whitebait Avocado Cheese Smoked Fish, especially Eel Chips Swiss Chard Pizza Treacle Tart

Food & Drink I Dislike Egg Custard Carrots Sweetcorn Pernod Sheep's Eyes Green Tea Tapioca Absinthe Marron Glacé Milk Sweet Potatoes Butternut Squash

Words I Like Cunt Crenellate Merkin Merhari Amniomancy Vespiary Numpty Halberd Verisimilitude Persiflage Mendicant Antepenultimate

Quotes I Like If you don't concern yourself with your wife's cat, you will lose something irretrievable between you. [Haruki Murakami] When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives. [Joseph Campbell] The purpose of our lives is to be happy. [Dalai Lama] The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. [Flannery O’Connor] I like small furry animals — as long as they're tasty. [Lisa Jardine] The covers of this book are too far apart. [Ambrose Bierce] It will pass, sir, like other days in the army. [Anthony Powell] The gap between strategic rhetoric and operational reality remains dangerously wide. [Prof. Gordon Hewitt] Pro bono publico, nil bloody panico. [Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles] Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And East is East and West is West and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste more like prunes than a rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know? [Groucho Marx] The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. [JBS Haldane] If we don't change our direction we're liable to end up where we're going. [Chinese Proverb]