Wednesday Hodgepodge - 13/11/24

Joyce sets the questions for the Hodgepodge each week.  Her blog is here where you can find out more and see who else is taking part.

1. What's something you think is under appreciated. Explain.  

Being flippant here - the amount of time everything takes.  Everything always seems to take longer to achieve that you anticipate.  Especially if it involves trying to contact a company on the phone and actually get to speak to a human rather than a machine!  I had to ring for help in a multi storey car park last week and initially I was confronted with the message "Your call is important to us.......you are currently being held in a queue"!  I needed a human.  I needed someone to make the exit barrier go up.  I needed help not an annoying recorded message.

2. As winter approaches how do you stay productive? 

I'm not sure that I actually do.  Of course I try to keep on top of the chores etc associated with running a home and I try to keep up my walking when the weather permits, but on bad weather days I tend to hunker down and be very unproductive.  Well I probably read more which is satisfying, especially when you're trying to complete challenges, but it's not really a productive hobby.

3. What's a popular food you don't like? 

Avocado.   We went from not really having them, except when in season, to being able to get them all year round and all the cafes including them on the menu.

4. What do you think is more interesting-art or history? Elaborate. 

I think I prefer History.  It can teach us so much, a lot of which is so important.  

Art is such a subjective subject.  I love seeing art where an artist clearly has talent and has captured something accurately, but modern art bemuses me.  I know that art is also about self expression but some modern art to me looks like a toddler could have painted it and the prices that some of these "masterpieces" fetch are just ridiculous.

5. What advice would you give to someone half your age? 

Make time for yourself and your family if you have one.  Don't strive for perfection, life is short.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

This day next week I will be travelling to Vermont to visit my son and his family.  I can not wait!