Wednesday Hodgepodge - 14/1/26

Joyce provides the questions, we provide the answers and then we link up here to share.  Thanks Joyce.

1. What kind of winter person are you-snow lover, fireplace snuggler, winter adventurer, or indoor hibernator? Elaborate. 

Well I'm more of an indoor hibernator than anything else.  We don't have an open fireplace so no snuggling there for me.  I'll be snuggling under a blanket if it's really cold.  Which it has been.  I do like to get out for a walk when I can though but I'm not that adventurous and I do not love snow!  It's ok walking around the lake if there's been snow but in the UK just an inch or two of snow and everything grinds to a halt.

2. The Pantone color of the year is cloud dancer, described as a gentle, billowy off white shade. The color symbolizes 'peace, clarity, quiet reflection, renewal, and a soft reset'. Of the terms just listed which do you need most in your life this winter? 

Probably a soft reset.  The Christmas period was busy and routines went out of the window and I'm struggling a bit to get back into my normal routines.  And I'm also struggling to understand why we need so many shades of white lol.

3. Every cloud has a silver lining, on cloud nine, head in the clouds, storm clouds gathering, or cloud of suspicion...which 'cloud' idiom do you most relate to currently? Explain. 

Probably head in the clouds.  I do tend to hibernate a little bit in the winter.

4. coconut, cauliflower, cottage cheese, mayonnaise, onions, ranch dressing...of the white foods listed, which would be the hardest for you to give up? Do you like all or any of the foods on the list? 

onions - we put them in so many things but mayonnaise would be hard too.  Coconut and cottage cheese would be the easiest to give up as I don't eat them to start with.

5. Thomas Wentworth Higginson is credited with this quote-

"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year." 

Agree or disagree? Tell us why. 

I agree.  There are definitely some beautiful things to be seen in winter but sometimes when a winter is really hard you need the faith that spring will come.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Note to self - check the decking outside the back door isn't icy before stepping out on it when it's frosty!  

Yep I nearly fell over this morning.  Fortunately no harm done.  It was wet yesterday but overnight the temperature really dropped so the water on the decking had turned to a sheet of ice which I wasn't prepared for.