I keep getting these consumer survey emails, which I generally ignore. The latest one asks:

When it comes to Christmas season entertaining, which is your favourite cheese brand?What a lot of assumptions packed into that question. That I entertain, that I entertain at Christmas, that I entertain at Christmas with cheese, that I entertain at ( Read more... )

'I've been thinking,' said my mother. 'White ( Read more... )

There is a bus stop across the road from my house. That is perfect. One, because it is across the road and therefore quite handy, and two, because it across the road and therefore there are no strangers loitering outside my house all day. Except it's not really all that handy, because the City by the Sea's bus services have traditionally been ( Read more... )

Still going with this.

100 question meme, part II

26. How big is your bed?
Theoretically big enough for two people, and yet not big enough for one person and a cat at full stretch. Although that could be because the cat sleeps diagonally across it.

( And 24 more in the same vein )

There is a 100 question meme going round, which I have enjoyed, particularly mockduck's, because she cleverly thought of breaking it into manageable chunks for easier answering and reading. I decided to do that too. So there's something for everyone to look forward to.

100 question meme, part I1. How old will you be in five years ( Read more... )

According to the internet, today, 4 November, is Use Your Common Sense Day. I wish that was a more widely celebrated festival. Mostly by other people ( Read more... )

Hello, f-list. If you can hear me OVER THE HAIL. Gosh, it's loud ( Read more... )

Our third visit to the monthly trivia night, our third time winning a prize. Another first. I still haven't spent the book voucher I won last month, and now I've got one for a café too. I can't keep up with all these prizes.

A very long book meme, stolen from sabethea.

1. Favorite childhood book?

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. Oh, I loved ( Read more... )

There was a magazine on the lunch table at work today, featuring an advice column. Make sure you build a relation-SHIP, it advised, not a relation-CANOE. Which made me laugh more than I think the writer intended.

The What Do You Call It meme that has swept my f-list:

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow ( Read more... )

Kitchen meme stolen from k425 and half my f-list:

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.

I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers*, blenders**, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese ( Read more... )