Just for a bit of time-wasting amusement here’s a twenty question meme for the end of a bank holiday weekend.
Name a food that you can’t stand but which most people seem to love. Butternut squash.
Name a food beginning with each of your initials. Kale. Custard. Marmite.
Who is the most famous person you’ve met? Author Ian Rankin.
What was the last thing you read? This screen.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Get rid of the depression because pretty much everything else would follow from that.
What vegetable do you most hate? Sweet potato.
What superpower would you most like to have? Omnipotence – with that you can do anything else.
What would you love to be an expert in? Doing nothing.
If you could make any discovery, what would it be? The secret of immortality. Let’s face it, none of us really wants to die.
What would you like to have named after you? A dung beetle would probably be most appropriate. Or a wasp. Yes, I’ll settle for an annoying wasp.
If you could meet any figure from the past or the future, who would you meet? Elizabethan composer William Byrd.
What was the last thing you put in your mouth? Earl Grey tea.
Are you a good influence? I very much doubt it; indeed I might be worried if I were.
Does pineapple belong on pizza? Definitely not; neither does peach, unless you’re making a specifically fruit pizza. (Must sometime write up my method for fruit pizza.)
Something that’s worrying you at the moment. Diabetes.
One skill you don’t have but wish you did. The ability to magically attract money. Well, who wouldn’t!?
Tell me one unpopular, but entirely logical and far-sighted opinion you hold. The private car (van, etc.) should be banned. Yes, it would be tricky, but it could be done and it needen’t be as horrendous as you might imagine. (I must write an essay on this sometime.)
Do you ever write in pencil any more? Yes, actually quite a bit of the time: old programmers always write in pencil.
Do you wear rings? Yes. I’m currently wearing three: wedding ring, silver wedding anniversary ring, and a copper ring. Oh and my original (very worn) wedding ring on a chain round my neck.
Tell us three things you did today? Tried (and failed) to get a very old laptop working. Started reorganising the patio. Made a chicken salad.
Nobody is tagged, but join in if you want – just leave a comment here with a link to your answers so we can all enjoy them.
Yes, indeed, you never know what you’ve got until you look.
We have the decorator man in to give the hall/stairs/landing a lick of paint before we have new carpet put down.
On day 1 (yesterday) most of the time was taken removing the old carpet. And on the turn of the stairs we were awestruck at finding treasure …
Nestled in the angle of the tread and riser, between two strips of carpet gripper, underneath the carpet were found two tiny and entire mummified mice.
The poor little things had obviously, years ago, crawled in round the edge of the carpet to escape a feline kidnapper, and been unable to get their way out (or died from injuries).
Treasure trove indeed.
Brass Knocker Hill, near Bath