Books
Iain Banks - The Steep Approach to Garbadale
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Stephen Fry - The Liar
Alex Garland - The Beach
Gary Paulsen - Hatchet:Winter
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman - Long Way Down
Che Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Angel's Game
Ian Rankin - The Black Book
Stieg Larsson - The Milenium Trilogy
J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
George Orwell - 1984
Ali Smith - The Accidental
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love
Martin Cruz Smith - Wolves Eat Dogs
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Nick Cave - And the Ass Saw the Angel
Julia Powell - Julie and Julie
Val McDermid - Starstruck
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Sebasitan Faulks - The Girl at the Lion d'Or
Kevin McNeill - the Stornoway Way
Alexander McCall Smith - 44 Scotland Street
Movies
Inception
Wall Street
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Eat, Pray, Love
127 Hours
The King's Speech
The Adjustment Bureu
Heavenly Creatures
Girl:Interrupted
Ae Fond Kiss
Avatar
Lost in Translation
Tomb Raider I and II
Apocolypse Now
The Beach
The Boat that Rocked
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Juno
Brüno
Monty Python's Life of Brian
The Brothers Bloom
Jesus Camp
Idiocracy
TV Shows and Series
Dr. Who
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis
Top Gear: Middle East Special
Top Gear: Vietnam Special
Top Gear: Bolivia Special
Louis Theroux: Thai Brides
Planet Earth
Podcasts
Alex Lester's Oddcast - BBC Radio 2
Chris Evans Breakfast - the Best Bits - BBC Radio 2
Documentaries - BBC World Service
Food Programme - BBC Radio 4
Footstompin.com Scottish Music Podcast - Footstompin.com
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - BBC Radio 4
The Infinite Monkey Cage - BBC Radio 4
More Mayo - BBC Radio 2
NewsPod - BBC Radio
Steve Wright in the Afternoon - BBC Radio 2
Weekend Wogan - BBC Radio 2
Games
Dan's Game
We learnt this card game from the South Africans during our long wait in Aguas Calientes after the Inca Trail. We thought it was pretty good, so Melinda has written out the rules for us!
4 cards face down- only allowed to look at 2 closest to you once, at the very beginning of the game. Aim is to get least points at the end. If you think you have the least (must be <5) you can clap twice after your turn and everyone gets one more chance to improve their score after which all cards are turned over. If you do indeed have the lowest you score 0 but if not you get 20pts and everyone else gets minus 10pts, so you must be sure!
Ace- counts as 1 point
2 - counts as 2
... Jack is 11, Q is 12
Red kings are zero but black kings are 13
The cards 7&8 if picked up and discarded (can't come from your 4 table cards) mean you can look at one of your cards. Same rules for 9 & 10 but you look at someone else's. If Jack is picked up it means you can swop one of your cards for someone else's- but no looking at either card during swop!
If you have for eg a 5 on the table and the person before you discards a 5 then as your turn you may discard your tabled 5 (so you'll be left with 3 instead of 4). If however you've forgotten where your 5 is and you turn over a different card, you have to then pick the 5 up and play with 5 cards...
Enjoy!! Game only works if drinking lots of wine :-)
