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In a simply fantastic attempt to dodge doing any work this morning and because Desert Island Discs is about to start and I quite fancy listening to it, I'm taking up the "8" tag given to me by the lovely Sparx whose spud has got chicken pox so I hope he is feeling better. (and also It's A Small World After All and Metropolitan Mum - I'm feeling all warm and popular, evidence that I am no longer at school, hooray!)

Here are the rules:
1. Mention the person who tagged you
2. Complete the lists of 8s
3. Tag 8 other bloggers and let them know.

8 Things I'm looking forward to
1. My second cup of coffee today
2. Swimming in the Pannonian Lakes this weekend
3. Barbeque Saturday night
4. Christmas (a long way away I know, but we are going to Geneva and it will be great)
5. A potty trained Lukey
6. Eating the carrots from our veg patch (they're looking pretty good)
7. Desert Island Discs
8. Our leaking tap being fixed

8 Things I did yesterday
1. Quite a lot of work!
2. Got the hose out for the boys
3. Potty training
4. Got my mobile phone into a shop to be fixed.
5. Invited a load of people round for a barbeque on Saturday
6. Read quite a bit of Jo Whiley's book, My World In Motion which I am really enjoying (just loving this people sending me books to read and to review thing).
7. made homemade cheese burgers which the boys actually ate (this is no mean feat, Adam is VERY fussy)
8. Walked home from nursery with the boys along the unused train track and watched the lizards and then walked the rest of the way home pretending to be dinosaurs

8 Things I wish I could do
1. Get more sleep
2. Potty train faster
3. Train the dog not to try and eat the poo from unpotty trained bottys
4. Be more disciplined in getting down to work
5. Sew properly
6. Be more creative on the cooking front
7. Not shout
8. Speak Bosnian properly

8 favourite fruits
1. Forbidden ones
2. All the others (there really aren't very many that I don't like)

8 Places I'd like to travel
1. Sutjeska National Park (east of Sarajevo)
2. Rafting at the Una Regatta in Bihac
3. Cornwall in the sunshine
4. More of the Croatian Coast please - Korcula and Hvar being special favourites
5. Kenya
6. Anywhere in a camper van
7. Anywhere with a really good playground
8. A decent stint of staying at home

8 Places I've lived
1. London
2. Oxford
3. Cambridge
4. Lebowakgomo, near Pietersberg, South Africa (Paradise Lost in Translation should know all about that one)
5. Granada, Spain
6. Santiago, Chile
7. Freetown, Sierra Leone
8. Tuzla, Bosnia

8 people tagged but who don't have to do it if they aren't also into work avoidance and listening to Desert Island Discs

1. Crazymaisey at Where's your other sock gone?
2. Sandy Calico at Baby Baby
3. Clarey Babble at ClareyBabble
4. Mamma Nut at 4 Nuts in a nutshell
5. Mel Roxx at MelRoxx
6. Zooarchaeologist at Being a Mummy
7. Metropolitan Mum at Metropolitan Mum (this isn't totally mad, I did the meme before she tagged me, honest!)
8. Kathryn at Life in Italy

and a bonus tag because I feel like it to

9. Wife of Bold at WifeOfBold

Take it away.

Ok, that's it. Kirsty Young and Piers Morgan have finished their music choices, I've talked to my Mum on the phone and am having a very pleasant and peaceful Friday morning. Wishing you all the same.