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TheMrsNatG
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http://www.listchallenges.com/the-mrsnatgs-50-favourite-movies
Watched - Dial 'M' for Murder (19/04/15)
Watched "The Lady Vanishes" and "The Trouble with Harry" - 23/02/15
Also substituted French with Japanese as I learnt French from the age of four...
Also substituted French with Japanese as I learnt French from the age of four...
http://listography.com/7901725944/movies/50_favourite_movies__101_in_1001_
The Fellowship of the Ring (30/11)
The Two Towers (07/12)
The Return of the King (21/12)
The Fellowship of the Ring (30/11)
The Two Towers (07/12)
The Return of the King (21/12)
Watched "The Wind Rises" (Dec 2014)
1. Safety
2. Stale
3. Feathered
4. Hot
5. Open
6. Forever
7. Love
8. Touch
9. Colourless
10. Blue
11. Smell
12. Growth
13. Irony
14. Wrong
15. More
16. Feel
17. Muse
18. Child
19. Within
20. Pale
21. Earth
22. Torn
23. Scars
24. Stray
25. Drops
26. Against
27. Dry
28. Fresh
29. Covered
30. Bold
31. High
32. Shadow
33. Concrete
34. Vein
35. Rush
36. Yellow
37. Empty
38. Cliche
39. Central
40. Loss
41. Wonder
42. Sweet
43. Poetry
44. Heavy
45. Fall
46. Chair
47. Statue
48. Kool-Aid
49. Dark
50. Breath
51. Garbage
52. Silk
53. Teacher
54. Cream
55. Wash
56. Corner
57. Rose
58. Field
59. Two
60. Red
61. Music
62. Rope
63. Decrepit
64. Chase
65. Dream
66. Dance
67. Smile
68. Smirk
69. Reflection
70. Soul
71. Lock
72. Key
73. Rust
74. Find
75. Lose
76. Drag
77. Wind
78. Rest
79. Swing
80. Meeting
81. Vacant
82. Hazy
83. Release
84. Gather
85. Swarm
86. Road
87. Wait
88. Stand
89. Distance
90. Trapped
91. Desk
92. Detach
93. Shatter
94. Home
95. Shy
96. Tackle
97. Begin
98. End
99. Time
100. Life
Watched - Strangers on a Train (16/08/12)
Watched - Spellbound (30/11/14)






Watched:-
Rear Window (10/08/14)


Top 10 Languages in 2014. I have substituted English, my native language, with Italian.

Top 10 Languages as of 2014. I have substituted English,my native language, with Italian.

Top 10 Languages as of 2014. I have substituted English (my native language) with Italian


Watched:-
Mr & Mrs Smith (23/11/14)
Museum of London (Sherlock Holmes Exhibition)

Happy Halloween!

101 things!
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/fedderedder/the_observers_50_albums_that_changed_music/

12 books in the pile:-
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Friers
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Iron Winter - Stephen Baxter
Fables From the Fountain - various
The Land of Decoration - Grace McCleen
And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Emerging Mind
Living at the End of the World
The Wolf of Wall Street - Jordan Belfort
The Magic Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Recovering from Depression - Katharine Smith
The Long Mars - Baxter & Pratchett
Story of the Yankees - New York Times

The Badge!

Me and my guide
Finished reading 11.23.63 yesterday! A long time since I've read Stephen King - this one was worth the wait and the read!
http://nanowrimo.org
http://nanowrimo.org
http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/#
Nr 13. Write about a weird day in your workplace.
Nr 7. Electricity is a recent discovery. Think of 12 things to do when there's no power.
Nr 17. In 400 words, create your ideal place.
Nr 21. Write a letter to the 10 year old child you had been
Nr 27. Write a story about an empty glass.
Nr 96. You come home and check your phone messages. You get to the third message and freeze. Begin from there.
Nr 203. Write from the point of view of a branch with a bird perched on it.
Nr 121. Start your story with this: "She touched the little box in her pocket and smiled."
Nr 274. My old room was...
Nr 315. Use the following words in your story: diplomat, jacket, conference room, balloon
Nr 292. Use all these words in a story or poem: grandfather,photo-album, post office, folder
Nr 346. Use the following words in a story: college student, crumpled paper, train, laptop
Nr 129. Write a lighthearted piece on how to get on with an enemy
Nr 53. Write about what you'd cook for an enemy.
Nr 196. Write from the point of view of a freshly scrubbed floor.
Nr 272. Use all these words in a story: priest, ring, garden, magnifying glass
Nr 108. List 10 things you do whenever you procrastinate
Nr 22. In 200 words write about your first toy.
Nr 302. Write from the point of view of a spoon inside a dishwasher.
Nr 216. Write from the point of view of the last tree standing in a forest.
Nr 132. How would a broken plate feel.
Nr 345. Write from the point of view of a stack of paper a few inches from the shreder
Nr 185. Use the following words in your story: little boy, torn page, market, cart.
Nr 260. Use this metaphor to spark a story or poem: a chest of childhood
Nr 68. Begin with: I thought I saw...
http://www.gosober.org.uk/about/

Go sober for October

http://art.tfl.gov.uk/labyrinth/
Natural History Museum (red section)
V&A (ground floor)
Science Museum
Museum of London (Sherlock Holmes exhbition)
Nr 5....?
26 films - should be finished about six months before the challenge finishes if I manage one a month
I have seen "Sprited Away", "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Ponyo" but they must be watched again to complete the challenge.

Filmography
1979 The Castle of Cagliostro
1984 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
1986 Castle in the Sky
1988 My Neighbor Totoro
1989 Kiki's Delivery Service
1991 Only Yesterday
1992 Porco Rosso
1994 Pom Poko
1995 Whisper of the Heart
1995 On Your Markm(Music Video)
1997 Princess Mononoke
2001 Spirited Away
2001 Whale Hunt (Short film)
2002 Koro's Big Day Out (Short film)
2002 Mei and the Kittenbus (Short film)
2002 Imaginary Flying Machines (Short film)
2002 The Cat Returns
2004 Howl's Moving Castle
2006 Monmon the Water Spider
2006 House-hunting (Short film)
2006 The Day I Harvested a Planet (Short film)
2008 Ponyo
2010 Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess (Short film)
2010 The Secret World of Arrietty
2011 From Up on Poppy Hill
2013 The Wind Rises
I frequently post several days photos in one sitting. I undertake now, to upload the photos daily!
I have been doing this for some time - but I don't want to lose momentum; so I commit to it for another year!
http://www.blipfoto.com/NatG

Photo from the website
http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/07/13/50-questions-that-will-free-your-mind/#comment-7629038

Here is where you will find the questions!

Identify places where things are kept!

http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/quote-the-raven-nevermore-rubber-stamp-417402/
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,'

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!'
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!'
Merely this and nothing more.

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,' said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; -
'Tis the wind and nothing more!'

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door -
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as `Nevermore.'

But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.'
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.'

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never-nevermore."'

But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.'

This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
`Wretch,' I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee
Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore?'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!

Just started (two days in) - using Narrato
Rear Window (10/08/14)
Rear Window (10/08/14)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/top_100_classics_movies/?category=5
http://www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx

Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Rear Window
City Lights
The Searchers
Sunset Boulevard
The Third Man
The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
All About Eve
12st is the target!
63 of 101!
Website for Info:-
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