The start of a new year always has me thinking about new things I would like to try out. So in no particular order, some of the things I have in mind.
1. Learn to use my camera. This has been on my list of things to do for a while now. I'd like to go on a camera course at some point.
2. Read more. In particular I want to read more 'classics'. While I was studying I was painfully aware of how few of the 'classics' I had read.
3. Keep up with my blog - well of course :-)
4. Go back to researching my family history.
5. Read more poetry.
6. Listen to more music. When I was a teenager I was glued to my transistor radio and record player (oh yes, I am THAT old! <g>) For some reason as the years have gone by I listen to less and less music.
7. Do more exercise/watch weight/stick to advised alcohol limits, blah, blah, blah.
8. Keep up to date with my podcasts.
So as I update my blog (3) I am listening to (6) Teenage Kicks 1977-81 - The Music that Changed Everything, apparently :-). I am working my way through a poetry book (5) that we used on one of the literature courses I studied with the OU Romantic Writings: An Anthology. I have read:
Instructions, Supposed to be Written in Paris, for the mob in England ) by Mary Alcock (c. 1742-98)
The Chimney-Sweeper's Complaint )
The Mouse's Petition to Doctor Priestley ) by Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
The Rights of Woman )
And I am currently reading (2) Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I think this book is going to be something of a slog!
1. Learn to use my camera. This has been on my list of things to do for a while now. I'd like to go on a camera course at some point.
2. Read more. In particular I want to read more 'classics'. While I was studying I was painfully aware of how few of the 'classics' I had read.
3. Keep up with my blog - well of course :-)
4. Go back to researching my family history.
5. Read more poetry.
6. Listen to more music. When I was a teenager I was glued to my transistor radio and record player (oh yes, I am THAT old! <g>) For some reason as the years have gone by I listen to less and less music.
7. Do more exercise/watch weight/stick to advised alcohol limits, blah, blah, blah.
8. Keep up to date with my podcasts.
So as I update my blog (3) I am listening to (6) Teenage Kicks 1977-81 - The Music that Changed Everything, apparently :-). I am working my way through a poetry book (5) that we used on one of the literature courses I studied with the OU Romantic Writings: An Anthology. I have read:
Instructions, Supposed to be Written in Paris, for the mob in England ) by Mary Alcock (c. 1742-98)
The Chimney-Sweeper's Complaint )
The Mouse's Petition to Doctor Priestley ) by Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
The Rights of Woman )
And I am currently reading (2) Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I think this book is going to be something of a slog!
Comments
Post a Comment