150 songs...

...for my 30th birthday.

(and yes, like the book list this post is dated the day I was born.)

(and yes, this post is a work in progress...)

0 - 10

All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span
American Pie - Don McLean
Babooshka - Kate Bush
Bicycle Race - Queen
Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Cathedral - CSNY
Christmas Must Be Tonight - The Band
Dancing in the City - Marshall Hain
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Gaudete - Steeleye Span
Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City - Harry Nilsson
Guitar Man - Bread
Hotel California - Eagles
House At Pooh Corner - Livingstone Taylor
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Love The One You're With - Stephen Stills
Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz
Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Our House - CSNY
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Spirit in the Sky - Doctor and the Medics
Stand and Deliver - Adam Ant
Stuck In The Middle With You - Steeler's Wheel
Sunshine On My Shoulders - John Denver
Take On Me - A-Ha
Teach Your Children - CSN
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
The Weight - The Band
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham
We Will Rock You - Queen

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10 - 20

Alisha Rules the World - Alisha's Attic
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
All That She Wants - Ace of Base
Alright - Supergrass
Animal Nitrate - Suede
Bartender and The Thief - Stereophonics
Basket Case - Green Day
Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might be Giants
Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
Carnt Be Trusted - Bluetones
Country House - Blur
Crazy for You - Let Loose
Creep - Radiohead
Day We Caught The Train - Ocean Colour Scene
Disco 2000 - Pulp
Do The Bartman - The Simpsons
Doin' The Do - Betty Boo
Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Everything Changes - Take That
Fields of Gold - Sting
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Girl From Mars - Ash
Girl In The Dirty Shirt - Oasis
Goodnight Girl - Wet Wet Wet
Hand in my Pocket - Alanis Morissette
Hey Dude - Kula Shaker
How Bizarre - OMC
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts
Ironic - Alanis Morrisette
Just A Girl - No Doubt
Lady In Red - Chris De Burgh
Lemon - U2
Love Me For A Reason - Boyzone
Love Shack - The B52's
Man! I Feel Like A Woman! - Shania Twain
Million Love Songs - Take That
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
One and Only - Chesney Hawkes
Parklife - Blur
Pure Morning - Placebo
Raspberry Beret - Prince
Secret Smile - Semisonic
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Staying Out For The Summer - Dodgy
Steal My Sunshine - len
Stupid Girl - Garbage
Things Can Only Get Better - D:Ream
Three Lions - Baddiel & Skinner
Town Called Malice - The Jam
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Unbelievable - EMF
Unknown Legend - Neil Young
Urban Spaceman - Bonzos
Wake Up Boo! - The Boo Radleys
Why Does It Always Rain on Me - Travis
Wonderwall - Oasis
World in Motion - England New Order
Young at Heart - The Bluebells

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20 - 30

Addicted to Bass - Puretone
After Hours- Bluetones
All The Small Things - Blink 182
All The Things She Said - Tatu
American Idiot - Green Day
Bad Day - Daniel Powter
Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
Beautiful Day - U2
Buck Rogers - Feeder
Call My Name - Charlotte Church
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Complicated - Avril Lavigne
Dancing In The Moonlight - Toploader
Dark is Rising - Mercury Rev
Dirrty - Christina Aguilera
Drops of Jupiter - Train
Du Hast - Rammstein
Feeling Good - Muse
Follow Me - Uncle Kracker
Girl All The Bad Guys Want - Bowling for Soup
Kiss The Bride - Elton John
Kokomo - Beach Boys
Leave Right Now - Will Young
Little Less Conversation - Elvis & JXL
Livin' on the Edge - Aerosmith
Long May You Run - Stills Young Band
Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega
Memphis Soul Song - Uncle Kracker
My Way - Limp Bizkit
No Tomorrow - Orson
Northern Sky - Nick Drake
Plug In Baby - Muse
Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae
Ready To Go - Republica
Rock Star - Nickleback
Rushes - Darius
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
She Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
She's So Lovely - Scouting For Girls
Sitting Down Here - Lene Marlin
Smooth - Santana
So What - Pink
Something Kinda Oooh - Girls Aloud
Teenage Dirtbag -Wheatus
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
What I Go To School For - Busted
Wish I Was A Punk Rocker - Sandi Thom


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I shall be gradually working on links for all of these, and a couple of songs may change if I suddenly find something that I really should have included.

Books Read In 2011

Well, I'm trying again.

I've decided not to put started and finished dates on this list, partly cos one of the things that bugged me when doing the 2009 list was that I couldn't remember specific dates half of the time. also it didn't really reflect the number of books that I pick up and dip into.
So the general rule of thumb will be if it's a novel, I will have read it in one go, if it's a reference book, I'll have dipped in and out. I'll duplicate mention reference books depending on how long it's been since I last dipped into it!

1. Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
   
2. Vendetta - Michael Dibdin
3. Cabal - Michael Dibdin
4. 1001 Songs you must hear before you die (I'm setting up a playlist for this)
5. What to Expect Before You're Expecting
6. Potatoes Not Prozac
7. Ratking - Michael Dibdin
8. Broken Soup - Jenny Valentine
9. A Perfect Proposal - Katie Fforde
10. The St. Michael All Colour Freezer Cookery Book
11. Nigella Express - Nigella Lawson
    
12. The Procrastination Equation - Dr Piers Steel
13. The Needlecraft Book - DK
14. c jane Enjoy It! - Courtney Jane Kendrick
15. Stitched In Time - Alicia Paulson
16. The Embroidery Companion - Alicia Paulson
17. StoryWorld
    
18. The Aurora Teagarden Omnibus 1 - Charlaine Harris
19. The Biscuiteers Book of Iced Biscuits
20. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You - Ally Carter

Books Read 2009

This year I'm trying to write down every book I read. I've been trying to do this off and on (mostly off) for years. This year I aim to succeed.

(Date Started - Title - Author - Date Finished)

1. 1/1 - Four to Score - Janet Evanovich - 3/1


2. 3/1 - High Five - Janet Evanovich - 4/1


3. 4/1 - Hot Six - Janet Evanovich - 5/1


4. 5/1 - Seven Up - Janet Evanovich - 5/1


5. 5/1 - Hard Eight - Janet Evanovich - 6/1


6. 6/1 - Visions of Sugar Plums - Janet Evanovich - 6/1


7. 6/1 - To the Nines - Janet Evanovich - 6/1


8. 6/1 - Ten Big Ones - Janet Evanovich - 6/1


9. 6/1 - Eleven on Top - Janet Evanovich - 7/1


10. 7/1 - Twelve Sharp - Janet Evanovich - 8/1


11. 9/1 - Plum Lovin' - Janet Evanovich - 9/1


12. 9/1 - Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich - 10/1


13. 11/1 - Fearless Fourteen - Janet Evanovich - 11/1


14. 11/1 - The Stargazer's Guide - Emily Winterburn -


15. 12/1 - If You Don't Know Me By Now - Sathnam Sanghera - 13/1


16. 12/1 - The Illustrated Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett - 15/2


17. 13/1 - Loser's Town - Daniel Depp - 14/1


18. 15/1 - When Lightning Strikes - Meg Cabot - 15/1


19. 16/1 - Code Name Cassandra - Meg Cabot - 16/1


20. 16/1 - Safe House - Meg Cabot - 16/1


21. 16/1 - Sanctuary - Meg Cabot - 16/1


22. 16/1 - Missing You - Meg Cabot - 16/1


23. 18/1 - c jane enjoy it - Courtney Kendrick - 20/1


24. 19/1 - Poison Study - Maria V. Snyder - 22/1


25. 22/1 - Magic Study - Maria V. Snyder - 22/1


26. 23/1 - Fire Study - Maria V. Snyder - 25/1


27. 26/1 - The Canon - Natalie Angier - 19/2


28. 31/1 - Men of the Otherworld - Kelley Armstrong - 1/2


29. 2/2 - Bitten - Kelley Armstrong - 3/2


30. 3/2 - Stolen - Kelley Armstrong - 4/2


31. 4/2 - Dime Store Magic - Kelley Armstrong - 4/2


32. 5/2 - Industrial Magic - Kelley Armstrong - 5/2


33. 6/2 - Haunted - Kelley Armstrong - 6/2


34. 6/2 - Broken - Kelley Armstrong - 7/2


35. 7/2 - No Humans Involved - Kelley Armstrong - 8/2


36. 9/2 - Personal Demon - Kelley Armstrong - 9/2


37. 10/2 - Living With The Dead - Kelley Armstrong - 13/2


38. 19/2 - The Pinhoe Egg - Diana Wynne Jones - 19/2


39. 20/2 - Valley of Secrets - Charmian Hussey - 20/2


40. 21/2 - The Merlin Conspiracy - Diana Wynne Jones - 23/2


41. 22/2 - Ten Stations/Secret Story - Jenny Valentine/Cathy Hopkins - 22/2


42. 23/2 - Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman - 24/2


43. 25/2 - Curtain Up - Noel Streatfeild - 27/2


44. 1/3 - The Ant Colony - Jenny Valentine - 2/3


45. 2/3 - The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith - 3/3


46. 3/3 - Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith - 3/3


47. 3/3 - Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith - 3/3


48. 3/3 - The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith - 4/3


49. 4/3 - The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith - 4/3


50. 4/3 - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith - 4/3


51. 4/3 - Blue Shoes and Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith - 5/3


52. 5/3 - The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith - 5/3


53. 5/3 - A Woman From Botswana - Alexander McCall Smith - 5/3


54. 5/3 - The Miracle at Speedy Motors - Alexander McCall Smith - 5/3


55. 5/3 - 9987 - Nik Jones - 14/4


56. 6/3 - The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz - 12/3


57. 9/3 - Sheconomics - Karen Pine and Simonne Gnessen - 11/3


58. 12/3 - Beginner's Greek - James Collins - 15/3


59. 16/3 - Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips - 17/3


60. 18/3 - Reserved for the Cat - Mercedes Lackey - 24/3


61. 24/3 - On The Beach - Nevil Shute - 28/3


62. 27/3 - The Vanishing of Katharina Linden - Helen Grant - 31/3


63. 29/3 - Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen - 29/3


64. 2/4 - PopCo - Scarlett Thomas - 8/4


65. 10/4 - How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant - Elen Caldecott - 10/4


66. 15/4 - The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss - 20/4


67. 28/4 - Nightingale Wood - Stella Gibbons - 29/4


68. 29/4 - The Visitor - Sheri S. Tepper - 29/4


69. 1/5 - Dry Store Room No. 1 - Richard Fortey -


70. 3/5 - Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison - 18/5


71. 6/5 - The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet - Reif Larsen - 9/5


72. 12/5 - Flora's Lot - Katie Fforde - 13/5


73. 15/5 - Practically Perfect - Katie Fforde - 16/5


74. 18/5 - The Arrival - Shaun Tan - 18/5


75. 18/5 - Dot Robot - Jason Bradbury - 4/7


76. 19/5 - The Good, The Bad and The Undead - Kim Harrison - 20/5


77. 20/5 - Every Which Way But Dead - Kim Harrison - 22/5


78. 22/5 - A Fistful of Charms - Kim Harrison - 23/5


79. 23/5 - For a Few Demons More - Kim Harrison - 23/5


80. 23/5 - Where Demons Dare - Kim Harrison - 23/5


81. 23/5 - White Witch, Black Curse - Kim Harrison - 24/5


82. 26/5 - Julie and Julia - Julie Powell -


83. 28/5 - Love Letters - Katie Fforde - 28/5


84. 31/5 - Library of the Dead - Glenn Cooper - 4/6


85. 4/6 - The Way of Shadows - Brent Weeks - 11/6


86. 4/6 - Death's Daughter - Amber Benson -


87. 12/6 - Shadow's Edge - Brent Weeks -


88. 27/6 - Just Listen - Sarah Dessen - 28/6


89. 28/6 - This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen - 29/6


90. 29/6 - The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen - 30/6


91. 29/6 - Radio Head - John Osborne -


92. 1/7 - Heaven Can Wait - Cally Taylor - 1/7


93. 2/7 - Finger Lickin' Fifteen - Janet Evanovich - 2/7


94. 11/7 - The Affair of the Mutilated Mink - James Anderson - 14/8


95. 21/7 - Red Velvet & Chocolate Heartache - Harry Eastwood - 21/7


96. 22/7 - Notes from the Universe - Mike Dooley - 22/7


97. 22/7 - Love, Aubrey - Suzanne LaFleur - 22/7


98. 23/7 - If I Stay - Gayle Forman - 23/7


99. 23/7 - Seven Sorcerers - Caro King - 23/8


100. 23/7 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K.Rowling - 24/7


101. 24/7 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K.Rowling - 28/7


102. 28/7 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K.Rowling - 29/7


103. 29/7 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K.Rowling - 10/8


104. 8/8 - Along For The Ride - Sarah Dessen - 8/8


105. 10/8 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K.Rowling - 10/8


106. 10/8 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K.Rowling - 11/8


107. 11/8 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K.Rowling - 11/8


108. 15/8 - Silent in the Grave - Deanna Raybourn - 15/8


109. 15/8 - Silent in the Sancturay - Deanna Raybourn - 16/8


110. 16/8 - Silent on the Moor - Deanna Raybourn - 16/8


111. 17/8 - The Buried Circle - Jenni Mills - 21/8


112. 17/8 - Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly - Jeff Stelling -


113. 27/8 - Saffy's Angel - Hilary McKay - 28/8


114. 29/8 - How to Quit Without Feeling S**t - Patrick Holford - 31/8


115. 1/9 - Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett - 1/9


116. 2/9 - The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett - 5/9


117. 5/9 - The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett - 7/9


118. 8/9 - Sourcery - Terry Pratchett - 8/9


119. 8/9 - Eric - Terry Pratchett - 8/9


120. 8/9 - Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett -