07
Jul
2010

4×9 List

A quirky little idea to blast out on a blog post. Here’s my list:

Four jobs I’ve had in my life
- Ice cream seller
- Sandwich board wearer
- Teacher
- Motivational speaker

Four Movies I can watch over and over
- Top Gun
- Austin Powers
- Into the Wild
- When we were Kings

Four places I have lived
- Yorkshire Dales
- Jane Furse, South Africa
- London
- Kent

Four TV programmes I love to watch
- Match of the Day
- BBC nature programmes
- You’ve been Framed (guilty pleasure)
- Total Wipeout (guilty pleasure 2)

Four places I have been on holiday
- Spain
- France
- Tunisia
- Italy

Four websites I visit daily
- Google
- BBC Sport
- Twitter
- Flickr

Four of my favourite foods
- Chinese
- Indian
- Mexican
- Pizza

Four places I would rather be right now
- San Francisco
- Cape Town
- Istanbul
- On top of a mountain


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2 Comments

  1. Posted July 8, 2010 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

    Is this an invitation to chime in?

    Four jobs I’ve had in my life
    - Horse Shit Collector
    - Pallet Stacker
    - Backstage Carpenter
    - Ski Guide

    Four Movies I can watch over and over
    - The Fellowship Of The Ring
    - The Two Towers
    - The Return Of The King
    - Ace Ventura Pet Detective

    Four places I have lived
    - Northamptonshire
    - Exeter
    - Les Gets
    - Yerevan

    Four TV programmes I love to watch
    - Ready Steady Cook
    - Wildlife Docs again
    - CSI (yeah yeah)
    - really struggling with a fourth one

    Four places I have been on holiday
    - Egypt
    - Majorca
    - Val D’Isere
    - Barbados

    Four websites I visit daily
    - Gmail
    - Google Reader
    - Twitter
    - Flickr

    Four of my favourite foods
    - Ghormeh Sabzi (Iranian)
    - Homous
    - Vindaloo
    - Doughnuts (hot ones)

    Four places I would rather be right now
    - England
    - Camping by a lake
    - Turkey
    - Canada

  2. Posted July 22, 2010 at 9:19 am | Permalink

    a great idea, and i’m working on my list right now, but why 4×9?
    there are only 8 questions…

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