2007
October
Liking: Storybook Glen, Cumbernauld, Pan paperbacks, Glasgow
Craft Mafia, deep-fried Mars bars.
September
Liking: Aberdeen, being 5, The Ritz Cafe, The Young Knives.
August
Liking: traditional shops, Richard Seifert, the British motorway
system, Anthony H. Wilson, Lee Hazlewood.
July
Liking: cardboard synthesisers, vintage ice cream
vans, The Go Betweens, Great Yarmouth, being interviewed.
June
Liking: Niceness, interesting2007, Antony Gormley, The Midland
Hotel, Charlie Harper.
May
Liking: Harland Miller, The Pencil Museum, snapshots, Popcorn,
tea towels.
April
Liking: Pretoria flats, Candie Payne, Cumbria, localness,
Inverkip Power Station.
March
Liking: Seashells, old museums, Stanley Unwin, The White
Bus, mid-century ship interiors,
February
Liking: YouTube, FourDocs, Lindsay Anderson, Maurice Broomfield,
Tam Shepherd's Trick Shop.
January
Liking: Soviet bus stops, Melvil Dewey, high rise demolition,
something new.
2006
December
Liking: Cozy Tomato, found type, eating and drinking
in New York, Christmas.
November
Liking: New York City, The UN Building, Victor Pasmore's Apollo Pavilion, Scottish 80s indie discos.
October
Liking: The North East, Mablethorpe, The Tyne Tunnels, Lead Balloon, hydro-electric power.
September
Liking: Little People, East Kilbride, new towns, being 4.
August
Liking: Arthur Lee, Lou Shabner, Vladimir Tretchikoff, John Betjeman, the highest bowling green in Great Britain.
July
Liking: 99s, camera obscuras, The World's Biggest Hedge, dictionary of pop, Syd Barrett, things just the way they are.
June
Liking: The Great British Holiday, Pontins, Wales, model villages, The Beatles Shop, everything in miniature.
May
Liking: Paynes Poppets, Jim Noir, We Feel Fine, The Beatles Cartoons, tomato ketchup dispensers, Grant McLennan.
April
Liking: Gallivant, Tunnocks again, bath olivers, Ronald Searle, Topsy and Tim, dazzle ships.
March
Liking: going places, Powers of Ten, biscuits, the Visual Dictionary, the Peak District, The Armstrongs.
February
Liking: Underground maps, Miffy, bubblegum pop, Ampelmann, tilt-shift photography, Danny.
January
Liking: Follies, Eine, The Lyceum Cafe, Rowland Emett, Canberra, Alphaville, ephemera.
2005
December
Liking: Ladybirds, kitchen sink dramas, Louis Wain, Batman, teddy girls, Bruce McLean, Keld Helmer-Peterson.
November
Liking: Crematoria, Ross Sinclair, George Orwell, Thunderbirds, public information films.
October
Liking: Halloween, funicular railways, sweet wrappers, The Harbour Bar, David Mach, the local library.
September
Liking: Scarborough, Marimekko, the Museum of Flight, librarians, Xtina Lamb.
August
Liking: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bob Moog, chairlifts, East Kilbride, south-side cafes.
July
Liking: c86, Tom Eckersley, Scottish sweets, Lefor Openo, Glasgow cafes.
June
Liking: Cyprus, idleness, Saint Etienne, Antony Gormley, Daggs the Gardeners Shop, old book covers.
May
Liking: The Horn, The Washington Metro, Dulles International Airport, motorway services, Jeremy Deller.
April
Liking: Dundee, Eduardo Paolozzi, roadmap art, Ivor Cutler, Little India and old playground furniture.
March
Liking: Mass Observation, growing my own, Expo 67, Funny Face, holiday postcards and Fife.
February
Liking: Flickr, Spongebob, idling, Ed Ruscha, The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read.
January
Liking: The Littlest Elf, Alain de Botton, Bill Drummond, tea bags, post-war churches, The New Piccadilly.
2004
December
Liking: goats, metros, Christmas, Festivus, Alain Gree.
November
Liking: housing estates, the backs of postcards, bubble cars, Scotland.
October
Liking: Delia Derbyshire, Gerald McBoingBoing, old paperbacks, Halloween, leisure.
September
Liking: old hairdressers, The Best from Scotland, rude food, vintage airline timetables & flapjacks.
August
Liking: healthy eating, knitting scarves, The Olympics, mass games.
July
Liking: France, Rothesay, flying, the Kalakala.
June
Liking: life during wartime, Sarah's Tuck-in, and risky buildings.
May
Liking: Suburbia, Troon, record covers, Misha and the Get Carter Car Park.
April
Liking: Plain English, blogging, Olympic mascots, Bulgaria & Morecambe.
March
Liking: Art Deco, Tunnocks, Atget, sweet trolleys, The Thames & Dr. Seuss.
February
Liking: London, Ikea, The Weather Project, Ashley Havinden, Reggie Perrin.
January
Liking: more bakeries, Lost in Translation, pinhole cameras, US signs and Salvador Dali's lollipop logo.
2003
December
Liking: car boot sale postcards, Jacques Tati, Minipops, Dadisms & Franz Ferdinand.
November
Liking: going up north, comedy shop signs, Broadcast, tower blocks and Alice in Wonderland.
October
Liking: Hallowe'en, Robert Stewart, Belle & Sebastian and The Wicker Man's legs.
September
Liking: I like's first birthday, old shop signs, Russian dolls & the Victoria Baths.
August
Liking: moving house, The Golden Egg, Archy & Mehitabel, Norman McLaren & Musselburgh.
July
Liking: old films, John Bagnall, Tim Tams, The Moomins & sticky-out shop signs.
June
Liking: old cafes, old bakeries, old stereos & the seaside.
May
Liking: Harry Wingfield, Toby Paterson & Rushmore.
April
Liking: John Hinde (again), Gene Deitch, Soviet statues & Leigh Bowery.
March
Liking: Napier (New Zealand), Brasilia, The Post Office Tower & M. Sasek. (again)
February
Liking: Erlend Øye, communications towers, The Left Banke & Bobby Hill.
