Other book ideas: alien civilisations, number theory, code-breaking * Woody Allen DVD’s, * Science Fiction DVD’s

* The complete ’Twin Peaks’ (there’s a Gold Deluxe box set out) * Night vision / Infra Red / Thermal Imaging binoculars, military spec. * large Tin Tin rocket from shop in Covent Garden * Mozart’s piano concerto’s (pianist - Ashkenazy) * John Richardson’s three volume ’A life of Picasso’ (Random House) * Portable (battery and mains) iPod/iPhone player

Help with my telescope!

* Rugby (Union of course, not kick and wriggle), * Cricket, * Cycling

BOOKS * Charles Dickens books I don’t have (Penguin Classics): The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Our Mutual Friend, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, * Other books: ’Voyage to the heart of matter’ (Anton Radevsky and Emma Sanders); ’The Elements’ (Theodore Gray); ’Perfect Rigor’ (Masha Gessen); ’Double Falsehood’ (lost Shakespeare play); poetry of Paul Verlaine (in translation as my French isn’t good enough); ’Ferny’ (James Long); ’Pink Floyd on 45’ (Charles Beterams); ’How to live: a life of Montaigne in One question and twenty attempts at an answer’ (Sarah Bakewell); ’The monk who sold his Ferrari’ (Robin Sharma); ’Serious’ (John McEnroe); ’Silas Marner’ (George Eliot); ’Twilight of the idols or how to philosophise with a hammer’ (Nietzsche); ’ DVD’s: ’After Hours’, ’Animal House’, ’The Big Chill’, ’Falling Down’, ’The Graduate’, ’Heat’, ’Wetherby’, ’With friends like these’ (French), ’The Long Good Friday’,everything directed by Mike Leigh, ’Pandorum’, ’The big blue’, ’Bad taste’, ’Man on Wire’, ’Game plan’, ’Unrelated’, ’Serenity’, Surrogates’, Medicine Man’ (old Sean Connery film), ’Inception’, ’John Carter of Mars’, any BBC series of Charles Dickens

* Little metal cyclists that you can buy on rue Saint-Louise-en-l’Isle in Paris, * robots, * gadgets that don’t require any common sense to operate

* Allen telescope Array (SETI), * Opera at La Scala, Milan, * CERN in Switzerland *Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vance * A mountain stage of the Tour de France

WOULDN’T IT BE NICE IF FATHERS WERE ALLOWED, IN LAW, TO SEE THEIR OWN CHILDREN?, * NSPCC, * Syd Barrett Fund * Amnesty International * Starlight (making dreams come true for ill/dying children)

* trendy velvet jacket (Paul Smith?)

Anything even vaguely implying I might need to do some DIY!