10 favourite things from 2002

I've just been reading through some old websites and blog posts from 2001/2002, thanks to Wayback Machine. I made a list of my 10 favourite things. I was 37/38.

1. vanilla

I've always loved vanilla. Perfume, soap, vanilla slices. It's still my favourite fragrance.

2. my goldfish Tallulah

I had Tallulah for quite a while. I gave her a long pedigree name! She featured in a few of my blog posts.

3. reading unputdownable books

This was probably pre-Kindle. I read a lot of books and always loved a book that I just had to keep reading, one that kept me awake at night until I'd finished it.

4. fiddling with my webpages

It was HTML back then and I loved tinkering. The internet was absolutely the best thing!

5. fountain pens

I still love fountain pens now.

6. brown ink

And still buy brown ink.

7. my Palm m500

Palm Pilots were brilliant. I had a few different versions over the years but finally relinquished them when my mobile phone made them obsolete.

8. Waterstone's

This is a big bookshop. I used to visit the shop in the middle of Manchester. It was a sanctuary and one of my favourite haunts.

9. blue things

I do like blue but maybe not as much as back then.

10. celeb spotting

I worked in Manchester and often spotted different celebs wandering about town or filming. I was starstruck from my early teens and collected autographs.