Wednesday Hodgepodge 20/7/16

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1. Pokemon Go...your thoughts? Are you playing? Do you even know what it is?
I know what it is but I’m not playing.  Seems like a dangerous activity in some ways.

2. What was something you collected as a child? Do you still have that collection? If you're a parent what's something your own children collected? Have you ever camped out, stood in a crazy long queue, or paid a ridiculous sum for a 'collectible'?  

Never camped out or queued for anything.  I did collect stamps for a bit but not for long and I don’t have them now.

3. "Collect moments, not things"...tell us about a moment you've added to your collection this summer.  

None yet but we have 3 weddings in August so I’m sure there will be several moments to come.
4.  What's something collecting dust in your home right now? Any plans to do something about it?

Well there’s lots of clutter collecting dust that I’m gradually working through to either get rid of or find homes for but I also have the wedding dresses from my daughter’s wedding last year hanging in my house as they “couldn’t possibly find room for them in the flat!”
5. A favorite song relating to time?  

The first song I thought of was Turn back Time by Cher but the video I found for that was quite raunchy so I opted for this instead:  Eva Cassidy, Time after Time.

6. What's been your most frightening or your most interesting encounter with wildlife?

What springs to mind is a recurring dream I sometimes have of coming face to face with snakes in a huge pit at the zoo.  I have a phobia of snakes and in the dream I rush up to a wall and jump up to look down into the pit only to find it swarming with snakes.  Of course that’s not how snakes are kept so it’s interesting to see how the mind works.
7.  On July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong set his foot down on the moon. If you could travel to the moon would you go? Why or why not?

No I wouldn’t go.  There are lots of places I’d rather visit here on Earth.
8. Insert your own random thought here.

I spent some time with Poppy on Monday.  She is looking so much better although it was hard seeing her having to wear a Babygro with mittens in this current heatwave but she needs the mittens to stop her pulling her feeding tube out of her nose as that would mean a hospital trip to get it re-inserted.  Ordinary mittens are no good as she just pulls them off!  As for the heatwave, I am glad not to be working so that I can just slow down and only do the absolute minimum before finding the coolest place in the house and turning on a fan.