• degree from oxford
• marriage to v. nice, v. good-looking, v. rich creative type. preferably italian.
• three children
• house in central london
• at least three novels published
• a siberian husky
• a tank full of axolotls with pretentious names

• lord sebastian flyte
• heathcliff and cathy
• oskar matzerath
• steerpike
• clovis sangrail
• alexander le large
• satan
• bob, jenny and ella
• fevvers
• iago
• goldmund
• anthony blanche
• fuchsia groan
• dr. prunesquallor
• molesworth
• scythrop
• clytemnestra
• jeeves and wooster
• alec scudder
• javert

boys

• adam
• adrian
• alec
• alfie
• aloysius
• bysshe
• clovis
• edwyn
• eric
• felix
• florian
• francis
• hugo
• heathcliff
• holden
• isaac
• ivo
• jude
• julian
• klaus

• make progress with untitled novella
• buy venice connected card
• finish the man who laughs and the stand before next thursday
• make reasonable progress with teach-yourself-italian thingy
• send questionnaire back to clare
• READ READ READ READ READ READ

• twenty thousand streets under the sky - patrick hamilton
• wuthering heights - emily bronte
• lolita - vladimir nabokov
• the tin drum - gunter grass
• les misérables - victor hugo
• brideshead revisited - evelyn waugh
• nights at the circus - angela carter
• hangover square - patrick hamilton
• orlando - virginia woolf
• a handful of dust - evelyn waugh
• titus groan - mervyn peake
• gormenghast - mervyn peake
• a clockwork orange - anthony burgess
• london belongs to me - norman collins
• the catcher in the rye - j. d. salinger
• narcissus and goldmund - herman hesse
• giovanni's room - james baldwin
• the go-between - l. p. hartley
• the pursuit of love - nancy mitford
• the blue flower - penelope fitzgerald
• paradise lost - john milton

Tube stations I can remember visiting. Passing through while sitting on the tube doesn't count, obviously. Circle line is missed out because the stations are all on other lines, too...One day, when I have nothing better to do, I'll visit them all.

DISTRICT LINE

• richmond
• wimbledon
• wimbledon park
• fulham broadway
• west brompton
• earl's court
• notting hill gate
• south kensington
• sloane square
• st james's park
• monument
• stepney green
• mile end

• charlotte bronte - jane eyre
• emily bronte - wuthering heights
• anne bronte - the tenant of wildfell hall
• charles dickens - oliver twist
• charles dickens - great expectations
• charles dickens - bleak house
• charles dickens - our mutual friend
• george eliot - adam bede
• george eliot - middlemarch
• george eliot - the mill on the floss
• thomas hardy - far from the madding crowd
• thomas hardy - the return of the native
• thomas hardy - tess of the d'urbervilles
• thomas hardy - jude the obscure
• henry james - portrait of a lady
• henry james - daisy miller
• henry james - what maisie knew
• henry james - the turn of the screw

"if you have time..."

• busted (hammersmith apollo 2003)
• muse (earls court 2004)
• roxy music (koko 2005)
• the damned (the forum 2005)
• franz ferdinand (alexandra palace 2005)
• antony and the johnsons (shepherds bush empire 2005)
• roxy music (motor show docklands 2006)
• bauhaus (the forum 2006)
• shakra (random tent in interlaken, switzerland 2006)
• the damned (shepherds bush empire 2006)
• muse (wembley arena 2006)
• patrick wolf (union chapel 2006)
• patrick wolf (astoria 2007)
• love minus zero (inn on the green 2007)
• the damned (100 club 2007)
• muse (wembley stadium 2007)
• patrick wolf (a pub in north london 2007)
• the jesus and mary chain (royal festival ...

• henry detamble
• clare detamble
• alba detamble
• every other character in the time traveler's wife
• edward cullen
• bella swan
• every other character in twilight
• angel clare
• briony tallis