Wednesday Hodgepodge - 16/5/18

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 From this side of the pond

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1. What would you say is your biggest day to day challenge?

Keeping on track and not wasting time.
2. May 16th is National Biographers Day. What's a biography you really enjoyed reading? Is this a genre you read regularly?

Dear Fatty by British Comedian Dawn French.  It’s written as a series of letters and I enjoyed it although it had mixed reviews.  Biography is not a genre I regularly read although I’m sure there are many lives that would be very interesting to read about.  What I find hard to accept is books written about people who have hardly lived any of their life yet so you know there will be a sequel and a sequel…. and the money will keep pouring in.  What happened to waiting until a life had at least been mostly lived?
3. How important is keeping a clean house? Do you need to de-clutter your life?
I like to think my house is clean – especially areas such as the kitchen and bathrooms but I’m not fanatical about it.  I have decluttered some things but now we have the house to ourselves again there is a lot of sorting out to be done and rearranging.  But as and when.  I’ve reached a stage in life where you realise it’s short and sometimes there are more important things to do than cleaning.

4. You're the 8th dwarf. What's your name?

Common sense/Elf & Safety/Logical……..
5. What's surprised you the most about your life or life in general.

My ability to cope when things got tough.  I was always such a shy, timid child who wouldn’t say boo to a goose (and I still hate confrontation) but when life threw me curveballs I just got on with it.

That and the capacity we have for love.  I wondered how I would react to a Grandchild – other family babies didn’t really hold me in thrall but as you all have probably gathered I am absolutely besotted with Nathan and so excited about having more to dote on.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

Ok, so thinking back on #1.  Today was supposed to be the day for doing the laundry and re-organising my kitchen pantry style cupboard.  So far the laundry is ticking along nicely, (thank goodness for a tumble dryer as it’s cloudy and a bit showery here today) and I have washed the lovely new containers I bought for organising the cupboard.

Then I remembered it was Wednesday………Thanks Joyce for another great set of questions but they’re not helping me keep on track – although I don’t regard composing a Hodgepodge post a waste of time! lol