Brown paper packages tied up with string.....

....these are a few of my favourite things.

Taking a leaf out of Jennifer's book


My 100 Favourite things (unfortunately I can only think of 91 at present)

1. My family
2. Cats
3. Cheese
4. Sunny days in May
5. Books
6. Babies
7. Freshly laundered bed linen
8. Butterflies
9. Dr Zhivago (film)
10. Music by Tchaikovsky
11. Swans
12. Wild flower meadows.
13. Scent of freesias
14. My 1000s of photos
15. My digital camera
16. Garlic bread
17. Being a mum
18. Brown eyes
19. My computer
20. Bug Café
21. Breast feeding
22. Babies bare feet
23. Soft fabrics
24. Simply Red
25. Buzzing of insects on a summer day
26. Aroma of freshly baked bread
27. and coffee
28. Marcasite jewellery
29. Sandals
30. Chocolate
31. Roast beef dinners
32. Robins
33. Elephants
34. Tigers
35. Jugs
36. Lara’s Theme (from Dr Zhivago)
37. Memories of my grandparents.
38. Hazy sunshine in autumn
39. Walking through crunchy autumn leaves.
40. Freshly fallen snow
41. Cashmere knitwear
42. Reading in bed in the morning
43. Green of newly opening leaves in spring
44. Soaking in the bath
45. Researching my family history
46. Chardonnay
47. The colour lilac
48. Yellow roses
49. Bluebells
50. Woodland walks
51. My garden (except for the work it involves)
52. The Internet
53. Feather pillows
54. Strawberries
55. Poetry that rhymes
56. Lavender bags
57. Daffodils
58. Billy Fury
59. Grandma’s homemade pea soup. (wish I had the recipe)
60. Growing flowers from seeds
61. Coronation Street
62. Hedgerows
63. Salted peanuts
64. White Zinfandel
65. Baileys
66. Peaches
67. Cheese and banana sandwiches
68. Squirrels
69. Sunset on the ocean
70. Monet’s Water lilies
71. Real log fires
72. Chanel 19
73. Apple pie with custard
74. Egg custard tarts
75. Homemade treacle toffee
76. Whipped cream
77. Horlicks
78. Summer thunder storms
79. Rainbows
80. My Ercol dresser
81. Granddad’s brass WW1 cigarette box
82. Granddad’s copper kettle
83. Hedgehogs
84. Spider’s webs dripping with raindrops
85. Grandma’s tiny porcelain vases
86. Beetroot
87. Meercats
88. My GPS (except when it takes me the wrong way)
89. The smell of freshly mown grass
90. My VW Golf
91. Crispy bacon