August meme, Days 1 to 5
I'm rereading The Chronicles of St Mary's. I'd previously only read up to book 5 and want to decide whether to buy the next ones or not. Also, I couldn't remember where the story had got to. Or how it had got there, really. Anyway, on page 2 of the first book, in order to set the scene firmly in the future, is a line written in a letter by one of the characters to our heroine, Max - ... given the possibility that America may close its borders again and the fragmentation within the EU.... Okay, so it's not fully accurate of the present, but thinking about the recent, pre-pandemic, growth in nationalism and insularity around the world... Later there is also reference to a flu pandemic in their future (although to be fair that is something that many people have been predicting for a long time).
I'm on book 2 now and I think I will be buying the next ones.
On to the meme -
1. Do you enjoy dancing?
Only in private *g* No, that's not true. I enjoy a good Cèilidh. The more raucous the better. There is little more cheering than the shared hilarity of spinning arm in arm.
2. Have you ever had a long distance relationship?
No. Not in the sense of me and my partner being a long distance apart. I have had a relationship in which we travelled a long distance together. Does that count? *g*
3. When you make a mess are you more likely to clean it up right away, or do you get to it later?
A wet mess, like spilled water or food, I will always clear up immediately. The sort of mess that seems to just appear, gradually, as a result of living - stuff left on surfaces where they don't belong - that I leave until I realise that I can't find something I need. Then I tidy it all up.
4. What do you look forward to the most about the colder times of the year?
Very little.
5. Have you ever hung your clothes out on a clothesline?
At every opportunity. Which is not as often as I'd like, but... I live in the UK, where it rains a lot, so... I don't own a tumble drier, so it's usually a case of hanging clothes on the radiators.
The rest of the year's questions can be found under the cut on my first January post.
I'm on book 2 now and I think I will be buying the next ones.
On to the meme -
1. Do you enjoy dancing?
Only in private *g* No, that's not true. I enjoy a good Cèilidh. The more raucous the better. There is little more cheering than the shared hilarity of spinning arm in arm.
2. Have you ever had a long distance relationship?
No. Not in the sense of me and my partner being a long distance apart. I have had a relationship in which we travelled a long distance together. Does that count? *g*
3. When you make a mess are you more likely to clean it up right away, or do you get to it later?
A wet mess, like spilled water or food, I will always clear up immediately. The sort of mess that seems to just appear, gradually, as a result of living - stuff left on surfaces where they don't belong - that I leave until I realise that I can't find something I need. Then I tidy it all up.
4. What do you look forward to the most about the colder times of the year?
Very little.
5. Have you ever hung your clothes out on a clothesline?
At every opportunity. Which is not as often as I'd like, but... I live in the UK, where it rains a lot, so... I don't own a tumble drier, so it's usually a case of hanging clothes on the radiators.
The rest of the year's questions can be found under the cut on my first January post.