Favourites

These are a few of her favourite things -- the things that give me gut wrench when I see them or hear them mentioned:

Joyce Grenfell ("Mrs. Moss wins a rabbit at a raffle" was her party piece)
Cheerios (plain ones)
Eddie Izzard -- www.eddieizzard.com
cats (and most other animals)
"Mutts" cartoons -- muttscomics.com
Annie's mac and cheese ("Bernie Bunny")
"Charmed" and "Buffy" TV series
pistachios
avocado
Michael Palin's travel programmes and books -- www.palinstravels.co.uk
candy corn
"Chalet School" series by Elinor Brent-Dyer -- www.chaletschool.org.uk
Guides and Guiding -- www.girlguiding.org.uk
"Lone Pine" series by Malcolm Saville
Holy Island -- www.lindisfarne.org.uk
"Swallows and Amazons" series by Arthur Ransome
opera -- www.leedsyouthopera.co.uk
gardening
gamelan
"Miss Marple" TV series - with Joan Hickson
knitting
Switzerland - Lake Lucerne
singing
"Doctor Who", "Torchwood", "Battlestar Galactica", "Red Dwarf" and other sci-fi TV series
theatre
"Mitford" novels by Jan Karon
chouquettes from Paul's chain in London
"Amelia Peabody" series by Elizabeth Peters
cranberry juice
the colour green