Top 10 books:
1. 'American Gods' - Neil Gaiman
2. 'Cloud Atlas' - David Mitchell
3. 'The Eyre Affair' - Jasper Fforde
4. 'His Dark Materials' - Philip Pullman (well, they counted it as one in the BBC's Big Read)
5. 'The Time Traveler's Wife' - Audrey Niffenegger
6. 'Never Let Me Go' - Kazuo Ishiguro
7. 'Opening Up' - Mike Atherton
8. 'White Teeth' - Zadie Smith
9. 'The Saturday Kitchen Cookbook' with James Martin
10. 'Thief of Time' - Terry Pratchett
Top 10 films:
1. Lost in Translation
2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Star Trek
5. 21 Grams
6. School of Rock
7. Shaun of the Dead
8. Juno
9. Kill Bill Volume 1
10. Mean Girls
Top 10 albums (this was REALLY HARD):
1. 'In Rainbows' - Radiohead
2. 'Franz Ferdinand' - Franz Ferdinand
3. 'Two Shoes' - The Cat Empire
4. 'Our Earthly Pleasures' - Maximo Park
5. 'Neon Bible' - Arcade Fire
6. 'Kid A' - Radiohead
7. 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' - The Flaming Lips
8. 'The Decline of British Sea Power' - British Sea Power
9. 'From Every Sphere' - Ed Harcourt
10. 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!' - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Top 10 singles (not so difficult, because as far as I'm concerned, albums are to singles what Tests are to ODIs):
1. 'Take Me Out' - Franz Ferdinand
2. 'You Know I'm No Good' - Amy Winehouse
3. 'Days Like These' - The Cat Empire
4. 'Do You Want To' - Franz Ferdinand
5. 'American Boy' - Estelle
6. 'Shine' - Take That
7. 'Somebody Told Me' - The Killers
8. 'Grace Kelly' - Mika
9. '2 Hearts' - Kylie Minogue (the little trooper even survived cancer!)
10. 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place' - Radiohead
Top 10 gigs (BLOODY IMPOSSIBLE):
1. Radiohead, Glastonbury 2003
2. Coldplay, Glastonbury 2002 (I don't care, I like Coldplay)
3. Franz Ferdinand, Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 2004
4. Ooberman, Glastonbury 2002
5. Radiohead, Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 2006
6. Arcade Fire, Latitude 2007
7. Echo & the Bunnymen, Liverpool Echo Arena, 2008
8. The Cat Empire, Bristol Academy, 2006
9. Maximo Park, Manchester Apollo, 2007
10. The Flaming Lips, Manchester Academy 1, 2009
Who's have thought I'd manage to have so much fun in Wolverhampton?
Top 10 Norway reunions:
1. Bournemouth
2. The very first one, at the Hodgeses'
3. England v India, the Oval
4. My 21st
5. The London weekend
6. Miranda's 21st
7. England v Zimbabwe, Bristol (Toby's 20th)
8. Liverpool
9. The Shindig Weekend
10. "I always support the underdog"
Top 10 cricket moments (I've only included one from that time when we won the Ashes for the first time in 16 years. It's strange, because that series meant the most to me, but I think I wasn't as crazy-focused on it as I was those series where I was supposedly studying for exams etc etc, and hence, I have more "moments" from that period, although they would perhaps objectively be considered less momentous):
1. Day 4 at the Oval v South Africa, 2003: Flintoff's 95, Harmison's coming-of-age, HATSWAP
2. Harmison's 7-12 at Kingston
3. Trescothick and Vaughan scoring 50 in 5 overs (I think at Old Trafford) to beat Sri Lanka and win the series 2-0, 2002. It was the evening before one of my GCSE RE exams, and I totally failed to get any work done.
4. Hussain's 109 v Sri Lanka, Kandy, 2001/02
5. Vaughan's 183 v Australia, Sydney, 2003
6. Vaughan's 197 v India, Trent Bridge, 2002
7. Strauss' century at Lord's on day 1 v Australia, 2009
8. Flintoff's century at Edgbaston v Australia, 2005
9. That mental ODI v India at Lord's, 2002
10. Butcher's unbeaten century to win England the match v Australia at Headingley, 2001
Top 10 cities:
1. Liverpool
2. Lima
3. Adelaide
4. Hong Kong
5. Prague
6. Bergen
7. Singapore
8. La Paz
9. Brisbane
10. Milan
Top 10 people:
1. James Martin (because nobody, NOBODY, could be better than James)
2. Toby
3. Nasser Husssain
4. My mum
5. Jeremy Paxman
6. Michael Vaughan
7. Simon Barnes
8. Darz
9. Dave
10. Claudia Winkelman
Top 10 miscellaneous:
1. Tea
2. The Norway tour that started it all
3. Summer evenings in Wiltshire with good friends
4. Stupid road trips
5. Leaving that shithole of a school
6. Gilmore Girls
7. Crochet
8. South America
9. Learning to cook
10. Bad dancing
SFL.