Movies watched at the cinema : 26
Some of the best : The Babadook, Nightcrawler, What We Did On Our Holiday, American Hustle, The Grand Budapest Hotel, August:Osage County
The worst : Mr Turner
The most over-rated : Gone Girl
Books I bought : 128
Best fiction : Awful Auntie, Opal Plumstead, Very Good, Jeeves!
Best non-fiction : Michelangelo: His Epic Life, P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, Women in Clothes
Best literary event : Jacqueline Wilson at The Lyric Theatre (she published her 100th book, Opal Plumstead)
Best musical event : Star Trek Into Darkenss at The Royal Albert Hall with Michael Giacchino himself
Favourite bookshop : Daunt Books Fulham Road
Best art bookshop : The National Gallery, same as last year
Best charity bookshop : Oxfam on High Street Kensington (single loot at this Oxfam : 6)
Best online bookshop : The Book People, same as last year
Best art event : Isabella Blow at Somerset House in January and Pradasphere at Harrods in May
Number of significant writing endeavours started : 1
Most significant creative endeavour started : plotting a novel
Emails to my friend Simon : 870
Best dinner : Fera at Claridge's and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, a well-deserved tie
Holidays taken : 0
Cities I've travelled to : Vienna, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Milan, Paris
Most unexpected encounter : Robert Duvall at Claridge's
Most longed-for encounter : Benedict Cumberbatch
On my birthday : I started off with brekfast at Claridge's
then I : went to the Virginia Woolf exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery
and later I had : dinner at Petrus
Best birthday present : Mr Jingles by MacKenzie Childs
Best Christmas present : a silk Burberry London map trench
Best times : evening walks with my dog, same as last year
Worst time : Wed 16th July in Vienna, stinking hot, I was tired, stressed, angry and then some
New best friend at the office : Mr C
Phone addiction : Candy Crush
YouTube addiction : Antonio Toscano's Lego trailers and movies
Number of visits to Claridge's : Countless
Best beauty buy : Clarisonic Mia 2
Best Iced Bucket Challenge : Benedict Cumberbatch [biased? Moi?]
Best Christmas Advert : Mulberry
And the most wonderful video of all, although I am certain many elements will be lost on the under-25s, is Jim Carrey's commencement address at the MUM graduation:
