TITLE: Making lists
DATE: 2019-07-25
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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I've been enjoying making lists as a way to chronicle things that 
I've done, and in some cases as encouragement to continue doing 
those things. Looking back through the notes on my laptop I've made 
lists of:

-   Munros I've climbed
-   Parks I've visited in London
-   Interesting bird species I've seen
-   Wine I've enjoyed
-   Addresses I've lived
-   Minecraft servers I like
-   Foreign currencies I hold
-   First aid supplies I own
-   Food supplies I have in my kitchen
-   Beer styles I'd like to brew
-   The yearly cherry crop on the farm
-   Events I've attended at the Hay Festival

The food supplies list was a really good way to encourage me to eat 
what I already had before buying lots of new ingredients and to try 
and reach 'food cupboard zero' before the end of my tenancy.

The bird species list is encouraging me to pay more attention to 
the birds I see when walking around and to try and identify them to 
species. I've been using the Merlin bird ID app on my phone for 
that.

Here is an excerpt of the bird species list:

    * Mistle Thrush
        * Where: Finsbury Park, London
        * When: 2019_07_27
        * Behaviour: Walking around on the short grass pecking at 
bugs 

And the First Aid supplies:

    * Fusidic acid 2% cream x2 - both nearly full
    * Clorogen eye drops 0.5% - nearly full
    * Malarone 250 mg/100 mg x2
    * Loperamide 2 mg capsules x4
    * Trimethoprim 200 mg tablets x9