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Well I'm out at work but if I was home....
I've got some Four Cheese pizza (can't remember the Italian name!), veggie lasagne, potato waffles, potato smiley faces that look remarkably like this and a vast selection of various noodles, pasta pots, pasta salads etc. Yes, I do have childish taste in food!

What's the furthest distance you've travelled recently? We went to Harrogate at the end of October, just a couple of hours away, am getting a bit of wanderlust!!

Louise

Come move here! At the moment most places involve a good bit of travel!

We went through to Carlisle just before the bridges went, so that's about an hour away.


Are you very handy at DIY type things or does your OH or someone sort out all the leaky taps etc for you.
(My kitchen tap is driving me mad at the moment, can't wait for hubby to sort it. I'm clueless. ).

I used to be good at a lot of things, once I even tiled my kitchen wall , but during my marriage I didn't have to do much like this. Now will have to learn again.


If someone called you right now to say "I would like to drop in on you in 10 minutes" - what would you do?

(I would probably try to hide all the mess in a cupboard )

haha it depends... if it was a friend of mine I'd be excited..would at least put a bra on under my jammies If it was my inlaws I would pretend I didn't speak english

What is the color of your house/apartment?
Faith

Well, most of it wasn't our colour choices, and they might sound weird but we've grown used to them!! Hallway/landing is peach with kind of brown patterned carpet. Living room/dining room is cream with green carpet and a textured brown wallpaper 'feature wall' . Kitchen mostly brown wood with orange & green tile-pattern wallpaper (not as bad as it sounds!) Bedroom in a state of transition from dark blue/green/silver stripey wallpaper (quite nice actually!) to cream/pale pink. Bathroom all turquoise

If you/OH drive, what kind of car do you have? ours is a Fiesta - the 'quite new' shape but not the 'newest new' shape

Louise

For the first time since we've been married, I now have my own car. I have an '04 Fiesta which I adore.
Hubby is a total BMW fan but he recently sold it and got the new Fiesta this year with all the talky gear I'm clueless about in it. Not sure if he won't eventually go back to his beloved Beemers, but he's enjoying the fiesta right now.

Do you have a 'best' dinner service or do you pretty much just use all your dishes whenever?

We have a lovely "best" service that DH inherited from his grandmother, and that gets used on high days and holidays, so to speak. Our daily service is a cheerful floral affair.

what was your greatest stitching disaster (or if you'd like to be more positive, your greatest stitching triumph)

Hmmm, stitching disaster? I'm not sure I have a major one of these. The worst I can think of is a DMC needlepoint kit of an emperor penguin that I was given when I was about 10 or 11. I didn't realise at the time that the lengths of thread needed to be cut to form stitchable lengths so I must have mangled most of the black thread in it - oh and I got some knots in it too. Not sure I ever finished that one

Stitching triumph - it's a toss up between the DMC tiger looking in a pool, which was my first major cross stitch kit since I returned to cross stitch from needlepoint, and my current christmas ornaments which have my first french knots, beads and are my first effort in ages at actually sewing anything up.

Back to cars - If money were no object, what car would be your dream car? (I used to say Aston Martin, but I also love Morgans and a classic Mark II Jaguar in British Racing Green would be fantastic)

A 1928 or 29 Austin Seven Box Saloon -- terribly impractical cause there's no room in the back whatsoever, but I love them
You can see two of them here

Back to stitching
Do you stitch mostly for others or mostly for yourself?

I generally stitch things for others. Same as baking. I like to bake, nibble on a few but bring my treats over to the neighbors, or bring into the office. I enjoy the process.
With stitching projects, I just don't know what to do with them, or where to hang them. For whatever reason, hanging things on the wall is such a commitment for me. I overthink if things are in the right spot- too high, too low, too close to a door, not centered, not level... I mean, its just a tiny hole in the wall- if its wrong, make another and cover the first one up.
Maybe its because I have never stitched a large project that I have fell in LOVE with and spent many many hours working on.


Who was the last person you spoke to on the telephone?

More often for others, although lately I've realized I have almost no Christmas ornaments of my own! So after several years and LOTS of ornaments for others, I did some to keep this year.

What's your favourite tradition on Christmas morning?

It was hubby yesterday. I was out doing errands and he wanted to know if he should wait for me to have lunch or go without.



If you had the chance to be able to play any musical instrument what would it be?


Not sure if I could pick between a piano or a guitar. I like both.

Oops sorry Wanda we must have been posting at the same time. But to answer your question we really don't have a Christmas morning tradition ours is for Christmas Eve.

The piano, definitely. I have always wanted to learn. Perhaps when I retire.

Do you have curtains (lace or similar) on your windows during the day? Here we do so people cannot see in, but I saw in other countries that not everyone worries about it.

When I lived at home in London we had net curtains at every window , with the usual curtains as well of course.
When I first moved here I did the same, but alot don't and over the years I've relaxed over it alot more. In this house now I only have the windows that face out to the road with nets (apart from the kitchen ones) and the rest only have the curtains you close at night.


Do you prefer to home bake cakes etc or main courses?

Lessa54 wrote:I'm not really very good at what falls into which genre. I suspect what I like is more rock than pop, but I just get what I like and ignore what genre it's supposed to fall within. Some of my favourites are James, Manic Street Preachers and the Kinks.

Ohhh I love the Manics... must be my fave band ever!!

~threadbear~ wrote:Do you prefer to home bake cakes etc or main courses?

I like to bake cakes and biscuits... I've just taken a Banana Bread out of the oven.. my house smells of cinnamon now. I love the smell of cinnamon probably why I bake it so much soooo

Whats your favorite smell?

Mabel Figworthy wrote:A 1928 or 29 Austin Seven Box Saloon -- terribly impractical cause there's no room in the back whatsoever, but I love them
You can see two of them here

Mabel, we had a vintage Austin for our wedding! http://www.frogfurlong.co.uk/cars/wedding_cars.htm" target="_blank I think they've repainted it as I think it was the 1928 Austin Burnham, but it was dark blue and black when we had it.

Charmed wrote: Whats your favorite smell?

That depends on a lot of things like what time of year and what mood I'm in. I think right now, it would probably be Christmas dinner! There's something rather scrummy about walking in the front door to smell the turkey roasting and all the accompanying items.

When are you putting your Christmas tree up? (or when did you!)

We bought it last Saturday and cut a bit off the bottom of its trunk and put it in a bucket to soak as per instructions, and I'm afraid to say it's still there as we really haven't had time but we'll hopefully put it this weekend!

What is the predominant colour of your Christmas tree decorations (or other Christmas decorations if you don't have a tree)?

Red, green, gold, silver...... traditional Victorian kind of colours I suppose - and multi coloured lights, I'm not into the modern trend of it all being just one or two colours. We have a trusty box full under the stairs and all the tinsel of any old colour gets put up somewhere!

What was the last dream you had, or the last one you remember? Last night I dreamt I was having an argument with two women about a parking space in Tesco's!!

Louise

I don't remember my dreams very often, but when I do they seem very vivid and involved. The last one I remember seemed so interesting that I wrote down what I remember and am in the process of turning it into a short story!

I was in Paris standing in a queue for an ATM - a very long queue. There were four machines and 4 queues. In front of me was a young man with a back pack and hiking boots - his backpack pocket was open and his passport sticking out. I tapped him on the shoulder to tell him he was going to lose his passport and he turned round to look at me - he had incredibly bright green eyes. We got chatting in the queue and he said his name was Romano - a silly name his mother gave him as she was English but his father was Romanian. His parents had met and married in Paris.

We talked all day, walked, had coffee, then he left to get a train somewhere and I decided where to go. I lived in Paris part of the year (my mother had been French) and visited my father in London (he was English) and travelled round the world the rest of the time. I decided to take a train and when I went to the station I saw Romano in the distance get on a train. I ran and jumped on it just before it left the station. Then I woke up.

Where that all came from I don't know, but I dreamed it all in vivid detail and colour too and even remembered scraps of conversations when I woke up. Maybe that happened to me in a previous life or something, hahahahaha.

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Have you ever stitched something and then in the end been completely dissatisfied and disappointed with it?