Thanks for reading, agreeing and disagreeing with me for the last two years. As a final parting gift, here's a random list of Top Fives (off the top of my head):
Top five HOT London views
- Babylon at Kensington Roof Gardens
- National Portrait Gallery Restaurant
- Skylon at Royal Festival Hall
- Tate Modern Restaurant
- Along the canals of Little Venice
Top five NOTs where I've wanted to throw something
- Cy Twombly at Tate Modern
- Arbutus Restaurant
- sorting out ISA account balance transfers
- Daylesford Organic mail order
- Bertorelli, Covent Garden
Top five never-to-be-repeated HOT experiences
- Classical Brit Awards at Royal Albert Hall
- VIP at O2 Wireless Festival
- Glastonbury
- Guest Night at Gray's Inn
- Swan Lake at Royal Opera House
Top five HOT art
- Anthony Gormley at Hayward Gallery
- Henry Moore at Kew Gardens
- Conceptual art at Tate Modern
- National Gallery free tours
- Candlelight viewing of secret Hogarths at Sir John Soane's Museum
Top five NOTs where I had wished they'd just stop it, please
- Breakin' Boundaries at Roundhouse
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- The Walworth Farce at National Theatre
- Speed the Plow at Old Vic
- British Ambassador's Belly Dancer at Arcola Theatre
Top Five HOT cinema experiences
- Secret Cinema
- Anything at the Electric Cinema
- BFI Mediatheque
- The English Surgeon at the London Film Festival
- Paris, je t'aime at Odeon Whiteleys
Top five HOT moments which moved me to tears
- Spyski at Lyric Theatre
- Daniel Barenboim playing Beethoven's Appassionata
- War Horse at the National Theatre
- Karma Police, Radiohead, clear evening sky at Victoria Park
- Getting sweaty with my bestest buddies at Lucky Voice Karaoke
Top Five HOT unusual theatre experiences
- Helium at Barbican
- Contains Violence at Lyric Theatre
- Masque of the Red Death at Battersea Arts Centre
- Just To(o) Long at Battersea Arts Centre
- Hamlet at King's Head Theatre