UM…..things I like and the list gets bigger

No order, ..many things,.. music,..images,.. thoughts,.. randomness,.. the vagaries of a middle aged woman……..things like:

the clean smell of a baby or my cat who smells just as clean,,,the voice,eyes and hair of Neil Oliver from the TV series ‘Coast’…the sound track of the 2009 TV AD for Mercedes Benz…adventures (I love adventures)…the sound of helicopter rotor blades (thud, thud, thud)…the power, determination,concentration of Rafael Nadal (tennis player)..and the dry humour and New York accent of John McEnroe…chocolate…

I like my own company………..maybe something that comes with getting older, but I am very comfortable being alone, I find contentment in doing my own thing. Perhaps being an only child ‘helps’ because then my friends were dolls, books (and I love, love, love reading) and jigsaws.

Celtic music and northern dialects,..articulated lorries,…slate roofs in the rain in northern England…wind farms…Harrier Jump Jets…the crunch and colour of a wet pebble beach.  Cranes on a building site and the Gantries of Harland and Wolff in Belfast.

I like markets…the ones found in English country towns, craft markets, Farmers Markets. I like them to the extent of running one on the coast. Along with my ‘business’ partner Rachael, we hold a weekly market on a Wednesday down on the beach in El Ancla Bar, Torrox Costa. We have a lovely bunch of sellers, who surprise you with their talent. It has been running now for a few months but WE NEED MORE BUYERS!.

I love the markets in Morocco (where we visit OFTEN) but there they are known as SOUKS. And what a hustle and bustle they are, full of both people and businesses, workshops, water sellers, funerals come through with coffins held high. The colours, the noise..wonderful.

And someone saying "I’ll take you to the end of the world".

………………..there will be more!!!

SOME MORE…

Idris Elba…my newly chosen close body protection officer! He will not be at all conspicious when I am wearing purple with a red hat and spitting in the street! I also love his BBC1′s series ‘Luther’…

…sitting watching the ocean and dreaming…the colours of Morocco…Berber tribesmen wearing turquoise with white turbans…interesting people who do interesting things (like two female middle aged lawyers I know..one of which goes into Gaza and the other helps middle eastern immigrants into Amercia…..and who one would take them to be your aunts)….Germaine Greer and women like her…Andrew Marr (now there is a sexy man..Helen Mrran and I agree on that)