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If we’re honest about it, we all have one or two weird quirks, or maybe even more than that.  So for today’s blog challenge post, the last blog challenge post in fact (sob) I thought I’d share a couple of my weird quirks. The car radio When I’m listening to the radio or a cd in the car, then I prefer the volume to be on an even number.  If someone next to me adjusts the volume and it ends on an odd number, then I have to alter it up or down by one so that it’s back on an even number. Even more importantly it must never EVER be on 13. I’m not sure where this odd quirk comes from, but I’ve always felt like this as long as I’ve been driving. The clothes pegs I mentioned this briefly in a previous post  but I do have a ‘rules’ when it comes to hanging out the washing.  Some of these could certainly be counted as weird quirks.  The yellow peg thing is certainly a weird quirk.  On my rotary clothes line, each row of washing has to st...

Mmmm, comfort food, what food always makes you feel warm and nice inside? For me, comfort food has to be warm, filling and generally quite stodgy, but maybe that’s just because that’s the kind of thing I grew up with.  There are lots of foods that I really like, but only a few of them would qualify as comfort food for me. Cheese and potato pie To be totally honest, cheese and potato pie isn’t really a pie as such at all.  It’s made by mixing mashed potato with cheese and then putting it into an oven dish with more grated cheese on top, and then baking.  My Grandma always made a cheese sauce to go with it, but that was always a bit of overkill for me.  I preferred Mum and Nana’s version that was always served with bacon, sausages from the local baker ‘Birds’ and most important of all Branston pickle.  I feel hungry just thinking about it, total comfort food. Mince and spaghetti on toast The last comfort food I mentioned is something from I used t...

Do you have a bucket list? Are there things that are at the top of your ‘to do’ list? Today’s blog challenge post is about the things that are at the top of my bucket list.  I don’t really have a list of must have-dos in my life, but there are a couple of things that if I did have a bucket list, would be at the top. The book As long as I can remember I have written; creative pieces, short stories, articles like those in this blog.  I was always planning on being a ‘writer’ (whatever that was exactly) when I grew up, and it’s still something that I aspire towards.  The bucket list part of this, is that one day I really will get around to writing my book, my novel.  Or maybe more than one, but I suppose I have to start somewhere. My main stumbling block at the moment is time, but I shall have to make time for it at some point, as it really is a must do, even if I’m the only one who ever reads it. Seeing more of the world I grew up in one con...

I don’t cry very often, so remember the last time I cried isn’t always that easy. This blog challenge post has obviously come at the right time though, as it was only the other day, so I can remember clearly. Things that make me cry As a rule, I don’t tend to cry at sad films or the like.  When I was younger it was very rare that I would cry at something like that, although since having children I do cry more readily at things that involve children. It’s something that friends have commented on to, once you have children, things like that seem to affect you more.  It wasn’t over something like this though the last time I cried, although before that I suppose that it might have been. The last time I cried For Christmas I got a book called tragedy at Pike River mine, I don’t normally like books like that and if I’m totally honest it wouldn’t have been my choice.  I felt I had to give it a go though, seeing as it was a Christmas present. Had...

There are four things that make me happy, they are also the same four things that make my house messy, drive me crazy on a regular basis, make me tired when they don’t sleep, and generally fill my every waking hour. But most of all they are the things that make me happy. My children I suppose that it’s a cliché to say that my children and the things that they do are the main things that make me happy. Of course it being a cliché doesn’t make it any the less true, and I have to say that it really is true, they do.  As I said, they also do many other things, but I suppose that if children didn’t make use happy, then it’s unlikely that the human race would continue.  Without wanting to sound like a total bore, I find them so interesting, fascinating and wonderful.   Other things that make me happy Of course there are other things that make me happy, a good book that I can’t put down, a cup of tea or a meal out with friends.  And of course there...

I like reading blogs, although I don’t often get as much time as I’d like to to spend looking at them. So when I saw that today’s post was called five favourite blogs, I was quite excited about going back and looking at some of the ones I really like.  The main problem is that I can’t always remember the names of blogs I’ve enjoyed, so this list is my five favourite blogs (that I can remember). 1. Tiaras and Prozac I’ve been reading this particular blog on and off for a long time, recently it’s been a lot more off than on, I really ought to make more of an effort. I ‘met’ the author of this blog via a birth board when my oldest son was born. This is one of my favourite posts from the blog: In the still of the night 2. Five degrees of chaos This is a more recent blog, and I do try to remember to read this one regularly. The writer of this blog is another person I know via a ‘birth board’ but this time my youngest daughter....

Day 25; all about my best physical feature.  The answer to this one has changed over the years, the one that I would have picked as my best physical feature has changed since I had children, but I’m guessing that that’s the case for a lot of us. My best physical feature in my youth When I was younger I had a good body, slim, firm, flat stomach, so I may well have said that my best physical feature was my figure.  These days things are rather different, carrying four children have left me with stretch marks, a love of chocolate hasn’t really helped me keep things toned, and an emergency caesarian has, I’m sure left me with less than impressive stomach muscles keeping everything where it should be. Not that I can complain, my figure may no longer be my best physical feature, but it was worth it for four children. My best physical feature now Child bearing, child birth and breastfeeding does all sorts of things to your body.  It means that once where I had quite sma...