I'm falling a little behind again, but, frankly, I prefer a few at one time for a little more substance.

1. If you could only live off of one food and one beverage for the rest of your days, what would they be?Well, after I stop screaming about the English in that question, I am left with other questions. Favourite food and drink? Asparagus and ( Read more... )

Three things you want to say to people and Pet PeevesThree? Only three? Which people ( Read more... )

Do I read? ::pause for guffaws::

Yes, I read. Everything including the cereal packet. Reading is almost as necessary as breathing to me. Thus the second part of the question, What are your favourite books? is insane. I might be able to specify my top hundred or top fifty. Getting it down to twenty would be a struggle. Below that, impossible.

( Under the cut for several lists )

What band or musician is most important to you?

I have come to the realisation over the last decade that music actually isn't particularly important to me. There is music I quite enjoy listening to - classics like Beethoven, Handel, Mozart and so on, folk and folk-rock like Fairport and rock mostly from the 60s and 70s - but none of it is really ( Read more... )

I haven't been outside Europe very much, but even within Europe there are places I really want to see ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago a newspaper team came to the Shakespeare Institute to spend the day. Today the results are published in The Independent.As always, the journalist has put a slant on it all. The only person there with a blue rinse is in her 20s. Actually, it's blue, pink and lilac. This pensioner is actually a student, for all my white hair - ( Read more... )

Late again, as the week ran away with me.

( Here, for what it's worth, was my Tuesday. )

We fully intended to wake up early, honestly. This was our first morning in Barcelona, on a special trip to celebrate my birthday last weekend ( Read more... )

Seriously. I don't feel out of my twenties yet.

Many thanks to friends who sent me their good wishes. I've tried to thank people individually - if I missed you I'm sorry.

While Storm Desmond was soaking the country and causing all sorts of shenanigans Oop North, Dave and I went to meet the girls at a National Trust house in the Chilterns. ( Hughenden Manor. Picspam below. )

12th November 2015 ( Read more... )