Stewart Pritchard's Hopes and Dreams

(from 'Hello Ladies', S01E04 - The Date)

Learn saxophone to superb level
Feel at home in a private plane - don't ask stupid questions
Have a threesome. Me plus two women
Expand business empire
Learn to relax during a lapdance

Travel to the Middle East - not the violent bits
Inspire a black kid to stay in school
Seduce stewardess on  transatlantic flight
Get sister's teeth fixed

Date a model. Take her to school reunion. See the look on Mike Moffat's face
Make Trudy regret her decision
Experience love (reciprocated)
Wife. Kids. Happiness.
Don't die alone


Finally pull the trigger on scuba lessons (trust the tank?)
Understand poetry
Have the perfect quote for every situation
Know the best dish at top restaurants (LA, NY, Chicago?)
Have nerve to order off-menu
Be a regular at a restaurant (classy/non-chain)
Have one story that never fails
Be someone's best friend
Find right underwear for body type
Never wear same outfit twice

Know how to tip with confidence
Own a house with a spiral staircase
Learn to relax during a lapdance

(Read by other characters, but not displayed on screen)

• If grey hair happens, make it work
• Wife. Kids. Happiness?

The Dead Pool

Aside from Jim Carrey lipsynching to GnR, it wasn't a great movie, even with Liam "I'm gonna find you" Neeson in it. But that's an aside. Margaret Thatcher and Annette Funicello died today, making me wonder who the third person will be, and who will go in the next nine months.

So here's my dead pool for 2013, in no particular order:

• Queen Elizabeth II (I probably didn't have to add 'II' to the end. It's not like there are a lot of other living Queen Elizabeths she'd get mixed up with)
• George Michael
• Amanda Bynes
• Hazel McCallion
• P.D. James