Ice Cold Irn-Bru

I like...

Ice cold Irn Bru; You; Philosophy senorita margarita shower gel; salt’n’vinegar KP Mini Chips; Prison Break; laughing til you cry; reading blogs; my red Rab down jacket – cosy warm; taking pictures with my new camera – loves it; Mark Beaumont; walking up the hills, day or night; midweek cinema trips – need to do this more often; listening to the sound of a heavy rainfall on the windows; hot pancakes with strawberries and ice cream; the Tour de France; Havaianas flip flops; Coldplay; Anthony Hopkins in the Sky advert; discovering new places I’ve never been before; the drive to work as it changes every day; the font Calibri; the light on the Ochils in a mid-winter sunset; Joan Miro artwork; Barcelona; my Pantone stripey mug, its lovely; the movie The Departed; Burt's Bees lip balm; sitting in the dark at night watching telly; my iPod; playing hide and seek with “The Boy” on the top landing; Dairy Fudge sweets in a tin of Quality Street; my Suunto Core alitmeter/watch - is fancy!; Jennifer Aniston’s hair; CK Eternity my scent of choice; Moleskine and Ciak notebooks; cheeky Friday scones; random chit chat in the office with Linda (oh if only you knew what we talk about!!); Antoni Gaudi buildings; happy endings; my walking boots; getting your feet wet when wearing flip flops on a balmy rainy summer evening; a good session at the gym; my pink and white checked Converse trainers; Flickr; solo shopping in Glasgow; Paolo Nutini’s new album – brilliant!; watching snow fall from the comfort of the couch; my red tartan jammie’s; VW Golf GTI’s & Audi A3’s in white; the drive to Glencoe; Lance Armstrong; the effects of CMS (ha ha); Thorntons chocolate covered fudge; bacon roll on a Sunday morning; great architecture; all this creativity that’s been swirling round my head the past few months – don’t know where it’s come from!; Bidean nam Bian – the beast, a good munro, my first; David Millar; home-made macaroni cheese, I make a mean one; that i look younger than i am; the movie Once; Kings of Leon – ace!; jaunts up the hills after work on school nights; buying kit; “The Boy” when he makes me laugh which is at least 10 times a day; writing my blog and hopefully getting better at it; colour – all colour, anything colourful; walking along with the wind blowing in your face – maybe even a wee drizzle, lost in your own thoughts. This list is extensive and maybe will even be added to occasionally as there are many things I LIKE!


I don’t like...

Lumpy mash potato; bad drivers at roundabouts; coffee of any kind; being shy; that I eat too much chocolate; Twitter spammers & junk mail; compare the Meerkat adverts; liars; people trying to sell you home insurance when you’ve just bought car insurance; garlic; when people are extremely late, not like 5-10 minutes late but half an hour late!; when your Goretex walking boots let in water; having no confidence; when people phone at the most crucial of points in the middle of a good programme; Roger Federer or rather the way the BBC tennis folk sook up to him; knee pain; tomato sauce; road works, way too much around here just now; the drive to Edinburgh; girls wearing way too much make-up; cereal bars; people driving with their iPod in, yes I have seen this!; stubbing your toe off something; bananas with black bits on them; when no-one texts you for ages and then you get one and it’s only a service message from O2 – crap; that i’m on holiday and everyone else is working – doh!!; that i never pursued my dream of becoming an architect...

Ange xx