Mandy from The Complete Cook Book has tagged me to answer these 10 questions. As usual I thought this would be a breeze, but I had to THINK! Thinking is hard.
Now that you have finished admiring my three citrus marmalade. Without further ado, lets get to work.
1. Describe yourself in seven words. How about I love- Being The Mother, Cooking, Eating, Farming, Gardening, Writing and Travelling. I am driven to Improve, Document, Share, and Comment. Also I am very bad at maths.
2. What keeps you up at Night? Reading. If I am in a good book, and I use the word IN deliberately, then I will read on and on and on.
3. Who would I like to be? Hmm. This is a toughie. I am actually quite happy to be myself. Maybe if I said Who would I like to be for a day. For a day I would like to be a tall, slim, rich, bejewelled Lady (with great hair) who Lunches! For this day I would also like to drawl when I speak, making fashionably cynical remarks to entertain the table. I would be the one who makes the perfect comment right then, not think of it three hours later. I would have the most beautiful handbag and high heels that are as sexy as they are comfortable and long beautiful fingers with nails! (I know those shoes do not exist but this is a dream sequence right?) Oh and I would have a handsome driver (with a cap) to take me back to the farmy after my lunch, so that I could have a few glasses of crisp clean white wine with all my sanguine imaginary friends.
4. What am I wearing right now? OO, How naughty! It is 5.30 in the morning! Use you imagination, then add two pairs of socks, three additional layers of indeterminate origin and a hattie.
5. What scares me? In all honesty most People scare me. I have the absolutely brilliant and not so rare skill for saying the wrong thing at exactly the right time. And no small talk. If I have a role I am fine, that is why I am always in the Kitchen at Parties, the Teacher in classrooms, the Director in plays, and the (somewhat tipsy) family Photographer at weddings!
6. The best and worst of blogging. The best of the blogging, is of course the people. I am not shy of you lot!! And the other best thing is that there are many of you who will pop in with emails and comments that help me learn new stuff. For example MadDog who yesterday sent me the info to make the images on my pages smaller in pixels which will use less space. Wonderful.
The worst of blogging. The worst is that I would love to put you all around the same table and eat and laugh and DO LUNCH. And this does not happen in the blog world. That is sad. I would be shy anyway.
7. The last website I visited was L.L. Bean. They have a pair of American made farm boots that I am going to buy to keep my poor feetsies warm out there in the cold.
8. What is the one thing I would change about myself. Do they mean something that I have no control over? I mean I can change most things if I want to. I am in control of myself after all. Oh I have it! I would have a built in time travel button. Then I could just pop over to visit any of my children (who are all over the world) or any of my good old friends (none of whom live close) for a cup of tea and a yarn whenever I feel like it. Naturally the built in time travel button would be free and I could carry a bag full of goodies too. Also I could just pop back and see any movies I missed, while they are still on the big screen! That would be a useful thing.
9. Slankets yes or no? (I am presuming at this point that whoever started this quiz is a rep for slankets?) Having never heard of them I looked them up. So, Um -NO. They are not made locally, they have no natural fibres, they will probably hang about in a landfill for a gazillion years and they look silly. Plus I don’t sit on cold couches without enough clothing to suit the temperature, I never watch TV and I read in bed at night. Maybe I could get gloves for the reading though, as our bedroom is unheated.
10 Tell us something about the person who tagged you!
- Mandy is kind and kindness is the quality I value most in a person.
- Her pages at the Complete Cook Book are clear, tidy, up to date, informative and easy to navigate.
- The recipes Mandy presents are simple and makeable. (Well that is not a word but you know what I mean.) Mandy makes real food that I can cook. There that is better sentence structure.
- She has a beautiful fig tree and if my memory serves me right she also has peacocks in her village. But that is an old memory. My pages have been up for six months now and Mandy has been with me since almost the beginning. She is an old friend in the blog world.
Above are a few vanilla beans in a wee jar of alcohol to make vanilla essence. It will sit in a dark cupboard now, for a few months. Now I would like to tag just a few of you to answer these questions if you like.
Another clear mild day is breaking, just a smoky wipe of pink on the horizon and TonTon already has his head on my knee applying the Lets Get to Work pressure!
c
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66 responses to “10 Questions Answered and a few bloggers tagged.”
Lovely pictures (as always) and thanks for the mention 😉
Thanks Mad, these are from the day before yesterday so they have not had the new treatment,, but i am resizing from now on! c
Oh Celi, what magnificent answers! Thank you for playing along. I was wondering if I could join you for that day when you are going to be that tall, slim, rich, bejewelled Lady (with great hair) who Lunches! Reckon we could paint the town red in no time at all plus that time travel button would makes things a lot easier too! 🙂
We do have peacocks in the village and I am still waiting to get the perfect picture for you.
Thank you C for your very kind, love filled words about me, I feel very special! *Big Hug*
🙂 Mandy
Oh yes.. lets do lunch! I will get to work on the time travel machine! That darned button must be around somewhere.. (mumble mumble) c
Groans for the tag – now I have to have to think of answers which won’t be half as witty as yours.
BTW I like number 3 best!
Just to prove my devoted friendship with you, I have answered your questions: http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/a-new-departure-responding-to-a-tag/
and they made me laugh out loud!! what a good sport! c
You may not know what to say in response at a party, but you sure know how to answer questions perfectly, wittily and warmly. Great job!
The delete button in handy!! Thanks Charlotte. c
I say we do LUNCH in our high sexy heels, sipping wine and chatting about our leisurly life. We can have that handsome driver join us too just for kicks!! I do like how you roll Cecilia!
I shall send the driver forthwith! Naturally he will offer us his gloved hand when we step in and out of the town car. c
I had to Google slanklet. No idea what it was, or rather is. I’m hoping it will soon be a was instead of a is. What a ghastly idea. And knowing me, I’ve probably just offended a great many of your friends here who think it’s brilliant. 🙂
And now that we’re tumbling into no-no-land, I also disagree with the saying “Best thing since sliced bread”, because I want to slice my own bread thank you very much.
Oh. I seem to be in a grumpy mood. Perhaps I’d better have a cup of tea. 😀
And a piece of hand sliced toast to go with that tea!I love it when you are grumpy! c
Ah, me and math. Just like you. I’m bad, very bad, at math. But then I figure if one excels in English and language and writing and those subjects, one will not do well in math. And, you my dear, excel in writing and photography.
Thank you Audrey, the math is not such a bad thing sometimes, i have a terrible time remembering my age !! c
Brilliant, brilliant post! Could you fit the chauffeur up with the time travel button too please and then he could whizz round in his massive car and pick us all up! You make me laugh so much, but I will now have to look up slanket as I still don´t know what it is!
Oh Of course, silly me.. i shall get to work on the chauffeurs buttons immediately!! c
I enjoyed getting to “know” you more! And I should try that pixel trick too. 🙂
Hi Kristy, yup i need to do my homework and use less space.. typical!! c
You just sound so lovely and if you were shy around me I’d march over to that pantry of yours and find some homemade wine. We’d take care of that. Seriously, this was so fun to read. Also, being tall is overrated. Other women make you get things off the top shelves at the grocery.
Horrors! And the wine is great for overcoming shyness, but it does exacerbate the saying the wrong thing factor! ha ha ha..lovely to see you katherine.. c
lovely to get to know more about you 🙂
It was a fun quiz! c
Terrific answers, so fun to read more about you, I never would have guessed you were shy, love the complete image of who you’d be for a day and what a fun day that would be (!) and yes, 72 dpi is a very important number to know. Thanks much for thinking of/tagging me and all I can say is I’ll have my work cut out for me to even attempt answering these in such a witty fashion as you have, miss c! ~Betsy
You will have fun Betsy. I have complete faith in you! c
Ha! I received a Slanket as a “gag” gift one year for Christmas. It ended up getting covered in cat hair, and I threw it out. Thanks for tagging me! I’ll ponder my answers and post within the week. =D
Evidently they have sleeves and everything, one can only imagine that they are an elaborate joke! c
what a fun quiz! those maine boots are great! i love mine. your vanilla looks cool! i have mine in a glass skull.
a glass skull! Brilliant!.. c
omg. I just completed my two month wait on vanilla extract. I did one with rum and the other with Armagnac. We live in Armagnac nirvana. And let me tell you right here right now, the Armagnac vanilla extract was crack. So good! My husband had the big-brain-on-Brad idea to do such a thing. And it was a stroke of genius. Don’t tell him I said so.
AHA! I shall try that then, i have a whole pound of pods to play with! I was thinking of a rum one but methinks you just changed my mind! c