9 posts tagged “qotd”

What is your "bad manners" pet peeve?

No question: eating with one's mouth open. Followed by butting in line or pushing people aside. Hummm, then ignoring the person next to you at the table.

If you could turn back time, at what point in your life would you go back to? What would you do differently?

I would take myself back to the first time I was in England, packing up my boxes to return home to Canada, and because I was tight for space and money, I threw out my grandfather's weekly letters to me; he used to make finger print cartoons on the backs of the envelopes. I have always regretted this action, I could have mailed them to myself. Consequently, I saved all of my grandmother's letters written to me when we lived in NS and then Scotland. She also wrote to me every week, and one rainy day I shall sit down and read through each letter.

I still miss them.

What are five words you really like? 
Submitted by purplesque.

That's easy.

"Would you like some toast?" 

or

"Shall we go for awalk?"

What words, for the life of you, can you never spell correctly?
Submitted by Byrne.

who and how.

What are you going to do with your tax return?
Submitted by KB.

Taxes! Pah.

I guess we will fill it out and then hand it in? and then buy French soap.

What was your worst cooking experience?

There are two, both from a while ago, when we had even less money than we don't have now.

I tried to make a garlic, mint chickpea Middle-Eastern inspired soup. However, I had no chickpeas, (when do you not have chickpeas?), and used up some cooked navy beans I had in the fridge. I made some lovely homemade crutons with some grainy bread. The soup, which was of a rather gloppy consistancy, was an unappealing battleship grey colour. The mint and garlic did nothing for it, except make it taste like watered down minty garlicy beans. The crutons gradually dissolved into the soup making the soup gradually become even thicker, until the whole thing was a garlicy thick glue-y mess. If you didn't look at it, it was possible to choke down tiny spoonfuls. We pitched the lot.

The second meal which we also chucked, was left-over spiced red lentils, which I thought we could have on toast; rather like beans on toast, but uh, with red lentils. DO NOT EVER DO THIS. It looks like vomit on toast.

What is your favorite term of endearment? 
Submitted by lostdwarf.

"Flower pot"

What is your favorite kind of bagel and what do you put on it? 
Submitted by Nacwolin.

Why mess with a good seasme seed bagel, cream cheese, lox, capers and a squeeze of lemon? Although, there is always toasted bagels with: peanut butter, or brie, honey and almonds, or Stilton and pear, or cheddar, chutney and apple, or cold butter, or fig jam, or scrambled eggs, or nutella. I hate those stupid all dressed 'fake' bagels. yuck. Real plain, seasme or poppy seed is all you need. In fact, I had the lox bagel yesterday at this great little cafe my mum discovered. Oh, and poppy seed lemon cake, and their house salad with feta, nuts, beets, etc. Yum. (C had endless bowl of matzo soup, and Montreal smoked beef sarnie. Their ginger cookies are amazing.)

In which fictional world/universe/land/city would you most like to live?
Submitted by glenn is the new chuck.  

In almost every book I read. But off the top of me heid: anywhere in Enid Blyton land of English countrysides, minor adventures, secret hiding places, castles, picnics with loads of cream and lashings of gingerbeer. Or maybe, somewhere in William Horwood's Duncton Wood series. (look it up yourselves, you lazy so and sos.) Or, more predictably, Rivendell, as long as I didn't have to have stupid poncy hair.