7 signs on the Ridgeway

7 poems learnt in childhood that I can still quote from

1. Kubla Khan - Samual Taylor Coleridge
2. Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
3. There Was a Little Girl - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4. The Stair Where I Sit - AA Milne
5. The Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear
6. Green Eggs and Ham - Dr Seuss
7. The Spider and the Fly - Mary Howitt

7 answers to questions we got right in this week's University Challenge

1. Baked Alaska
2. David Beckham
3. Icelandic
4. Richard III
5. -onimy
6. Seaweed
7. Blue

7 most deadly contractible diseases by approximate death toll

1. Smallpox : 300,000,000 - 5000,000,000
2. Measles : over 200,000,000
3. Bubonic Plague : 152,000,000 (approx)
4. Malaria : 80,000,000 - 250,000,000
5. Spanish Flu : 50,000,000 - 100,000,000
6. Tuberculosis : 40,000,000 - 100,000,000
7. AIDS : 25,2500,000

7 ways to predict the future

1. Gastromancy - divination by stomach noises.
2. Myomancy - divination by movements of mice.
3. Omphalomancy - divination by knots on the umbilical cord.
4. Gyromancy - divination by walking in a circle until the subject falls over from dizziness.
5. Rhapsodomancy - divination by random selection of a line of poetry.
6. Onychomancy - divination by fingernails.
7. Tyromancy - divination by cheese.

7 things I didn't know last month

1. Rays are part of the shark family
2. 'The Joy of Sex' took it's name from a cookery book - 'The Joy of Cooking'
3. There are over 60000 species of weevil
4. Our neighbours were going to put in a planning application to change the building use to... a yoga studio!
5. You can get goggles for dogs - Doggles
6. Plantains taste EXACTLY the same as bananas
7. The same people who operate the TPS (Telephone Preference Service) offer The Baby Mailing Preference Service, to help reduce the number of baby-related mailings you receive!?!

7 facts about Rafael Nadal

1. Nadal currently uses a Babolat AeroPro Drive Racket without cortex.
2. To date, he has yet to lose a match at the French open.
3. He is naturally right-handed, but he plays left-handed.
4. Nadal won a record 81 consecutive clay court matches before being defeated by Federer in the 2007 Hamburg Masters final.
5. By the age of 16, Nadal was ranked in the world's top 50 players.
6. He is currently the only man to win Roland Garros and Wimbledon in the same year since Björn Borg
7. Nadal became the third teenager to reach World No. 2 in the history of the ATP computer rankings, joining Boris Becker and Björn Borg