Theme 12 of 13
Music, books, sport, and the small pleasures of life.
Definitely not a morning person......tho' once I am up, I probably get my best work done in the morning. Actually getting up out of my comfy bed is…
DadThis is the easiest question yet! There is absolutely no question that I am an introvert. Just to be sure I went on line and found the following…
MumWe certainly like to shop locally and support our local businesses, though not exclusively. The businesses where I feel we have a 'relationship' and where we feel that…
DadThinking about this immediately brings up thoughts of camping on Hornby Island. It seems to be the only place where I feel comfortable doing very little. A typical…
MumI don’t think I am particularly gifted in building or constructing.... but I do like conceiving a task and seeing it through to fruition, at least to a…
DadThe world was a very different place then.The two sports that were being played at a professional level were football, or soccer, and cricket. My interest in football…
MumEasy… summer…… I hate the cold, have no desire for any winter sports and dislike the short, dark, grey days of our northern hemisphere winter. Warmth, sunshine and…
DadAs a very young child I do remember my mother reading A.A.Milne to me. Bear in mind that there was little or no new publishing of books during…
MumSevere storms seem to be very topical at the moment, with all the talk of global warming… I have fortunately never been really impacted by a storm, but…
DadI guess that the easy answer would be our house followed by our car but the more that I think about it the answer is much more complicated…
MumI don't recall ever winning anything... either by sheer luck or through my own efforts.. that sounds a bit sad doesn't it!? My Scottish Presbyterian upbringing never loaned…
DadGiven the availability of toys for children now it seems odd to say that we did not have many toys. Being born in 1941, the third year of…
MumI have always liked to write, I remember back to elementary school when I first found out the excitement of putting your thoughts onto paper and creating lasting…
DadI do remember as teenager aged 16 going to the Gaumont Theatre in my home town of Wolverhampton to see Bill Haley and the Comets. This was one…
MumNever a straight yes/no answer is there? When we were children we did not have the huge amount of media coverage of all sorts of sports that there…
DadI don't have any favourite artists but what I do have are favourite types of painting. What captures my interest is looking at paintings that are showing realistic…
MumOK... this is going to be a short one..... Smells can be so evocative, they can transport us back years in an instant......so three smells that leap to…
MumI don’t know how old I was when I learned to read, but I do remember loving books from a very early age. My best birthday gift as…
MumI have what could be described as eclectic musical tastes. Favourites? it could be AC/DC, the Beatles, Andrea Bocelli, Yo Yo Mah or Jimmy Shand and his Band.…
MumSo what are we talking about here? is it the sort of 'songs' that we like to hum along with or even sing? or do we spread the…
MumHmmm.......well, as you know we do not have cable TV so the programs that we watch on the TV screen are things that Jim has downloaded in the…
Mum photosI don’t remember learning to read, although I do remember being read to as a small child. Once I could read, I was a voracious reader and my…
MumI have a bit of a problem with this one... Today the cult of the 'celebrity' is so pervasive and the media 'hype' surrounding people in whom I…
MumWhen I stop to think about it, the games we played were the same as children still play, tag, hide & seek, dressing up.... we also played skipping…
MumThere are so many possible responses to this question… ‘best’ play…classical concert….rock music… ballet….. musical. When I think about it, I have been to so many live performances…
MumIt never seems like there is ever a straight answer to these questions..... If by funny it means doing something that makes other people laugh, then there's no…
MumAside from the obvious, like house…. or car…..there were a couple of purchases that I made many years ago that filled me with a kind of fear and…
MumAsk me…… I don’t want to commit it to paper……:-) Auntie Sheila is one of my favourite sources of jokes ………xx
MumEasy..........Abba 'Dancing Queen' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s&feature=kp......AC DC 'You shook me all night long'https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=Lo2qQmj0_h4&feature=kp.....Sister Sledge 'We are f amily'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo2qQmj0_h4&featur e=kp Good times! great weddings.... xxxx
MumPleasures of life.....I imagine you have to think of the five senses.... I love to see the ocean looking different every time you look at it, I love…
MumTelevision was relatively new in the 50’s and not many people actually had ‘sets’. The big push to get a television for many people was the braodcasting of…
Mum photosWe didn't have a lot of toys. In the post war years things were not available. We lived in Glasgow until I was nearly six. Auntie Sheila is…
MumI regard my musical tastes as being fairly eclectic, so this could be a fairly wide ranging answer. As a student in London we were always on the…
MumI think I have loved Picasso for the amazing simplicity of line and probably El Greco for the passion in the images. If you were to include other…