Accent:  Scottish with touches of Newfoundland
Beverage of choice: Earl Grey Tea
Chore I Hate:   Dusting
Dog or Cat:   Cats definitely, currently three.

Essential Electronics:  Computers
Favorite Clothing:  Around the house, anything loose;  out and about, blazer and jeans
Gold or Silver:  Either, and pearls

Hometown:   Edinburgh, Scotland

Instruments you play:   Organ

Job Title:  Retired from full-time;  part-time clerical

Kids:  One son plus one daughter-in-law;  they have four cats!

Living Arrangements:   Very comfortable, thank you!
Most Admirable Trait:   You'll have to ask someone else about that.
Number of Marriages:   One perfectly fine one!
Overnight hospital stays:  Don't ask!   I don't want to bore you!
Phobias:  Being underground.

Quote: "All will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of thing will be well."  Julian of Norwich

Religion:   Protestant 

Siblings:   One older brother.
Time I Wake Up Without an Alarm:  Depends on how late I've been reading.

Unusual Talent or Skill:   Mimicry will get me in trouble one of these days.

Vegetarian or Oppressor of animals:   Selective oppressor

Worst Habit:  Oh, I'll answer that tomorrow!

X-Rays:  I should be dead by now! 

Yummy Foods I Make:  Home-made fish and chips

Zodiac:  Gemini - double trouble!

 

 

I had a great time putting this one together.   I've never had the opportunity to sing the whole oratorio and probably never will, but have been listening to it and singing along with it since about age 14 and that's a very long time ago!     So, for all other frustrated choristers as well as music lovers - enjoy!

What was the first book that left a lasting impression?

 

"Monmouth Harry" by A.M. Maugham.   A novel of the life of Henry V of England.   First read when I was about 12 or 13 and I still read it about every 4 or 5 years.   Although a novel, it sparked my lifelong interest in things historical.

Which book would you recommend to a teenager reluctant to try literature?

 

First a little one:  "Jonathan Livingstone Seagull" and discuss it after.

Then:  "To Kill A Mockingbird"


When was the last time you laughed?

 

About an hour ago, at Choir Practice.   The Christmas stuff is coming together, but there are still a few rough spots, and the basses had a hard time tonight.

We're a cheerfull bunch.


Which contemporary author do you think will still be read in 100 years time?

 

Umberto Eco, I hope;  Stephen King probably.


What were you doing at 8 am today?

 

Sleeping, with assorted cats!


Flip to page 21, paragraph 2 in the book closest to you right now, what does it

 say?

 

"Soon after Columba's missions, emissaries arrived in Britain quite independently from Rome to convert the kings of the new Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the south.   Augustine made for the court of Aethelberht of Kent in 597, and Paulinus, a tall, stooping, ascetic figure, was later sent to Edwin of Northumbria, who was converted to Christ in 627......"


What is the most romantic thing a girl/guy has ever done for you?

 

Asked me why I didn't look at him while I was talking to him;  I turned to him and got caught up in the most romantic kiss of my life!   Never to be forgotten!


If you could invite three fictional couples to your own house for dinner, who would they be?

 

Wow!   Fictional Couples!      Samwise Gamgee and Rosie Cotton:   Oberon and Titania:   and just for fun - Lestat and Louis   


Do you sleep with your bedroom door open or closed?

 

Open for free comings and goings of resident cats, you know, the owners!
 

What is your current desktop picture?

 

Edinburgh Castle by floodlight.

 

Some questions for you.

 

What are the contents of your junk drawer?

 

Dog collar (dog now deceased), boot laces, deck of cards, wrapped candies from restaurants,  all instruction sheets on appliances bought since the dawn of time, matches, candle stubs, unopened pen sets, some electrical thingeys that other half put there, and sundry other things that just cannot be thrown out. 

 

 

 

Ok, if you dumped out your wallet or handbag or backpack on the table, would it be a frightening sight? Are there any interesting things in there?  (please remember family site guidelines!)

 

Only carry a wallet through the week and a handbag on Sundays!   Wallet - most interesting thing is trying to make out the features on my driver's licence photograph - could be anyone.

Also, my Canadian Citizenship wallet card!   (Transplanted Scot)

 

 

 

What's under your bed?

 

A box of VHS videos and my guitar in its case, and at any given time of day at least one cat!

 

 

 

Have you ever performed a defrag on your computer?  

 

Not on the desktop yet, but on the laptop, multiple times.

 

 

 

A new quiz of mine has been placed online!  It is in the Mixed Bag category, in History.  Click on the link below to play it, and feel free to leave comments!

 

	Time Travel Through History (10 questions)
	Let's take a journey through time to witness some major events we can only read about.