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
The Kitchen's Garden 
66 responses to “10 Questions Answered and a few bloggers tagged.”
What lovely answers Celicia. The quiz came to Mandy by way of my blog (I got it from someone who didn’t tag anyone to carry it on so I thought that I would start it rolling again) so I am thrilled it is circling the globe. I know what you mean about getting all the bloggers around a table. Can you imagine the noise (and the amazing food)?.
It would be a party and a half for sure and well done getting the ball rolling again it was fun! c
What a great information about you, Number 1 really well defines who you are on how the your reader would envision it.
So fun to read your answers! I love what you wrote. I am glad you would only be a lady-who-lunches for a day, because I think you are cooler as Celi!
we do have some fun don’t we!! c