2010

2010 is over: here's what I did in 2010.

• Saw: Grace Jones, Hurts (twice), Lady Gaga, Marina & the Diamonds (twice), Mini Viva & Girls Can't Catch, O'Spada, Paloma Faith, Robyn, Saint Saviour, Scissor Sisters, The Reason, Vania Fernandes.
  
• Went to Albania, Berlin, Corfu, Dingle, Essen, Gothenburg, Liechtenstein, Suffolk, Swiss Alps, Vienna.
  
• Visited: Armenian Church, Ashmolean Museum, Bevis Marks Synagogue, British Museum, Buckingham Palace, Croydon Airport, Design Museum, German Lutheran Church, Knole House, Leighton House Museum, RCA, Tate Modern, V&A, V&A Museum of Childhood.
  
  
• Met Dannii Minogue
• Did 7 job interviews
• Watched 10 football matches
• Won and lost a holiday to South Korea
• 30 classes of German. Jetzt kann ich auf Deutsche sprechen.
• Had a picture in a Guardian gallery
• Became a Friend of London Zoo

Some randomly plucked 2010 audio visual highlights

10 tweets from 2010

• I made the Polish ladies in Old Street station sandwich shop smile by speaking Polish to them.
• Reading about pubs in Ireland opening on Good Friday. 'tis a landmark
• Fascinating fact: Switzerland has won more Nobel Prizes (per capita) than any other nation.
• WEIRD. I've just read an email written by me in 2000, talking about having set up a Eurovision website. I have no memory of that.
• My friend Vandana and I are setting up a stall at a flea market. We're going to be the V&A Flea-seum.
• Love Spotify. Search Ellie Goulding. Get "Do you mean Elsie Goulding?" I wish I did.
• Saw a geography teacher doing his marking on the tube earlier. Was quite excited.
• Going to see Grace Jones tonight. Amazing seats, actually sitting in one of her hats.
• I managed to use the word outré and metaphor in my leaving speech at work. Brilliant.
• Received spam from Airline Adriana. How wonderful. I'd fly with them.