8 Things Thursday

8 more pairs of shoes!

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8 pairs of shoes I have worn recently.

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8 Things I Have Done Since Last Thursday

1. Attended a Catholic Requiem Mass for the first time in my life (for an old family friend).

2. Finished watching the first season of True Blood.

3. Entertained friends for dinner on Saturday night and served seared kangaroo fillets and sweet chilli prawns.

4. Finished reading Australian gothic : a life of Albert Tucker / Janine Burke.

5. Had lunch with an old friend I haven't seen for years.

6. Visited Craft Victoria's latest exhibitions.

7. Spent three hours at the State Library of Victoria researching stuff.

8. Attended the Eastern Metropolitan Region 2010 Schools Concert at Hamer Hall.

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8 Things I can See in the Study Right Now

1. Several boxes of very old Mars Staedler Lumograph tins containing untouched H lead pencils date stamped 21 April 1952

2. A New Yorker calendar with one cartoon per day

3. An old battery radio that is probably about as old as the pencil tins and still works perfectly well

4. A battered yellow croquet ball

5. A pencil box my husband made in school woodwork classes a long time ago - not as old as the other two old objects, but during the second half of last century

6. A nice, modern wireless modem (just to prove that technology has advanced)

7. Part of Saturday's paper

8. One and a half dog biscuits

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8 Books I Have Read Recently

1. The Percy Jackson series, by Rick Riordan (OK, that's 5 books, but I didn't want to single any one of them out, they were all such fun!)

2. Go! Melbourne in the Sixties, edited by Seamus O'Hanlon and Tanja Luckins

3. Making Money, by Terry Pratchett

4. The Valley of the Assassins, by Freya Stark

5. Tied Up In Tinsel, by Ngaio Marsh

6.Collage Sourcebook: Exploring the Art and Technique of Collage, by Holly Harrison, Jennifer Atkinson and Paula Grasdal

7. The Status Seekers, by Vance Packard

8. The Sorrows of an American, by Siri Hustvedt

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8 features I want in the new house that we might build sometime this decade.

1. Energy efficient everythings

2. Polished concrete floor

3. Hydronic heating

4. Masses and masses of storage space

5. A studio

6. A practical, big cook-top and oven

7. Lots of wall space for bookshelves and art

8. Eaves

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8 photos taken on our summer holiday in January, in and around Golden Beach on the Ninety Mile Beach in Victoria. It was pleasantly warm then, not too hot but lovely, quite a contrast to this week which has been wet and cold!

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8 Authors I Loved When I was a Child

Tove Jansson

Arthur Ransome

Rosemary Sutcliffe

Henry Treece

Geoffrey Trease

C.S. Lewis

Sundry adapters of Greek/Roman/Norse/Irish myths and legends (there were several I really liked)

Ivan Southall

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8 Things I really Dislike

Spiders

Tinned beetroot

Sinus headaches

Bureaucracy

Cruelty to animals, children, anyone or anything really

Incompetence (see bureaucracy!)

Bitter tastes

'Reality' TV like Big Brother and The Biggest Loser

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8 Things I Cannot Resist Spending Money On

Beads

Books

DVDs

Fabric

Sock wool

Shoes

Craft magazines

Cooking magazines

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8 countries I want to visit but have not been to yet:

Italy

Denmark

Norway

Finland

Sweden

Iceland

Russia

Israel

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8 photos from my 1989 honeymoon in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. All taken on actual film and scanned into the computer - the colours suggest 20 year old film, don't they!!

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8 Favorite Fictional Detectives

Lord Peter Whimsey (books only)

Inspector Morse (books and TV)

Inspector Montalbano (TV, have never read the books)

Kurt Wallander (books and Danish TV, though Kenneth Branagh is pretty good too)

Dr Temperence Brennan (books only)

Sherlock Holmes (in most incarnations)

Tom Barnaby (TV, never read the books)

Dalziell and Pascoe (TV, never read the books)

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8 Films I Have Seen Most Recently

Avatar 3D

Toy Story 1 and 2 3D

Sherlock Holmes

Planet 51

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 3D

Coraline 3D

Transformers 2

Dragonball

Mostly with Wombat!