Wednesday Hodgepodge - 22/10/25

Joyce provides the questions each week (thank you Joyce), we prepare our answers and then we share here.

1. What do you like most about your family?  

Well I have 2 brothers that I'm not particularly close to - there are quite big age gaps between us - so often when I talk about family it's the family I married in to and what I love about them is that I've never been made to feel like an "in-law"  I'm just part of the family, same as anyone else.

2. What's something nice that's happened to you recently? 

Being appreciated.  I had some nice feedback from people about my efforts at the Foodbank.

3. Do you like the colour orange? Besides a pumpkin and an actual orange, what's something orange you love?

It's definitely not my favourite colour.  And I'm not a fan of pumpkin or oranges.  I do have some orange cushions on our sofas which I think complement the brown leather but I don't actually find them comfortable so I never sit with one behind me.

Something I did love recently was the carrot soup I made with the carrots I got from the Foodbank - we had so many carrots, volunteers were encouraged to take some home.

4.  What's something you have now you couldn't have imagined having five years ago? How does that make you feel? What's possible now because of it? 

6 grandchildren!  It feels wonderful. We actually had none at the start of 2017 and had 6 by November 2020.

5. Let's wrap this one up with an October this or that...

• pumpkin bread or apple cider donut   DONUT
• cozy sweater or cozy hoodie    HOODIE 
• apple picking or pumpkin picking  APPLE
• scary movie or Hallmark movie  HALLMARK
• hay ride or corn maze  HAY RIDE - I love puzzles but think a maze might get claustrophobic.
• twinkle lights or candles  BOTH 
• autumn hike or autumn bonfire HIKE

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

We've had some much needed rain in the last few days but it hasn't put a damper on the start of firework season.  It was Diwali at the weekend so we've had lots of fireworks over the last few nights and of course soon it will be Halloween and then Bonfire night itself.  They don't particularly bother me but I know for people with pets it can be a difficult time.