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.”
I love driving, so I shall be your driver! Then getting to be a part of the reparte’ with you and spicegirlfla. Gloved hand extended. Will the time machine be big enough for our Bentley? Oh! and all the food we will get to taste and sample! From one blogger table to the next! TonTon can ride shot gun.
TonTon loves to ride in the Bentley, don’t forget your cap! c
I loved reading your answers Cecilia 🙂
reading books keeps me up too…a good book to lose yourself into is one of the joys of life
Books are so essential to my life .. Lovely to see you Sawsan, hope you are taking care of yourself. c
Thank you very much for the tag! I’m not sure I am all that interesting. I rarely put me on the blog. I will have to think up some interesting answers.
Debra Kolkka, Bagni di Lucca and Beyond.
Hi Debra, you don’t have to actually do it. Primarily I wanted to show your site to some of my other readers, it is such a beautiful travel blog! No pressure to do it at all.. c
Excellent. Good to meet another who says the wrong thing most of the time, and doesn’t know what a slanket is. (is it similar to a Muvet?)
With you on the time travel, and on People.
A Muvet? Now I am intrigued! What is a muvet? The mind boggles! c
People are scary…and I even scare myself sometimes. 😉
You should scare yourself, you are way scary! With all that sports stuff! Your food is not scary though!! c
Such a fun and lively post, Celia! And the photos are magical.
Thank you Juliet. I like the Marmalade one, it needs work but it is a good idea.. c
well, now i feel more foolish than usual! my butter churn arrived today. apparently i did not take note of the size of it when i ordered it. i could churn a gallon of butter in this monster! i will post it soon when i buy enough cream to use it! how long will fresh churned butter last in the fridge?
No No that is fine. you don’t have to fill it. mine i have about a third full, as long as the paddles can get in there and churn it you are good. In fact I think less is best. My butter is raw (don’t tell anyone) so it will last for ages, it just gets cheesier. Ultra pasteurised I imagine will last as long as pasteurised milk usually does. Probably a week, in a sealed container? Experiment and let me know too.. brilliant that it has come! c
I am well chuffed that you tagged me but also a wee bit nervous?? I’ll post my answers end of day tomorrow, promise! Meantime, I have realised you and I have much in common, I sucked at math too and then i’d get comments like ‘but you should be good at maths cos you’re like chinese!?!!’ hmmm… If that were the case, I’d also be slim and look elegant while doing Kung fu and magically floating through the air 🙂
if I find a good book, I can’t help but stay up all night reading when I should be sleeping! And what I wouldn’t give for a time machine 🙂
You mean you CAN’T Float through the air and do kung fun and soulful looks at the same time! Poor you! ah well, you will just have to stay up all night with me and read about it!! Don’t be nervous! You have a great sense of humour you will be fine.. c
So….. really? No slanket? I SOOOOO want a slanket! with a hood please, so I can walk around and pretend to be Death and freak June Buggie out because Death is now wearing a pink slanket!
Oh so it IS a pink one that you want! and they have HOODS! Well no-one told me that! c
thanks so much! i will post it and let you you know! i can’t wait!!!
I will stand by! c
Thoughtful post.Nice picture of the vanilla essence bottle
Thank you karen, hope you are having a good evening! c
The pictures of the vanilla essence-in-the-making and the three citrus marmalade! Oh, you’ve transported me to heaven so, Cecilia! Do reconsider that lunch, won’t you?
WE could always have a piece of home made bread, lightly toasted with home made butter and marmalade! Hi Priya! Welcome.. c
Oh shyness, I’m with you! And Please don’t get me to do “small talk”. It’s impossible! Blerurghhh. Thankfully we can avoid small talk here in blogland, and get to the nub, great post, and great reading 🙂
Yes that is a good point, no small talk around here.. c
Hi Celi, love the photos and learning more about you. Where on earth did you get a pound of vanilla pods? That sounds like a dream come true. Maybe I could use your chauffeur to come taste some delicious little thingy that you make from your vanilla and fresh churned butter.
John found a fellow in San Francisco who imports vanilla pods and saffron and that is all. They are good chef quality and much much cheaper than buying One pod in ONe jar in the supermarket. I am soaking a vanilla pod in the cream that I will make custard with later today.. decadent!! c
I want you to know that I purposely waited with my answers to the 10 Questions until you published yours, remembering how “well” you took it when my Reader Appreciation Award nominations preceded your own. And this is my reward? Your witty replies paint an utterly charming picture, one that will put my soon-to-be-published post to shame. Chivalry is painful. Who knew?
Well done John, so chivalry is not dead after all!! I am quite looking forward to reading your answers! Tons of fun. c