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[dimity_blue]

Memes snaffled from unbound_ophelia



3 things you’ve done today:
1. Paid my gardener
2. Ate a cream cake
3. Checked a new (to me) genealogy site

3 things you’ve purchased recently:
1. A new dress (£9)
2. More catfood
3. A replacement limbo (waterproof leg covering for when I shower)

3 things you’ve eaten today:
1. A cheese and leek plait
2. A cream cake
3.

3 movies you enjoy:
1. Singing in the Rain
2. It Happened One Night
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

3 songs you enjoy:
1. Dreamer's Ball - Queen
2. Hallelujah - Pentatonix
3. You're Gonna Lose That Girl - The Beatles

3 things you wish for:
1. To be able-bodied
2. To be less fatigued
3. To have no food allergies or intolerances

3 things you’re wearing:
1. A dress with owls on
2. An owl pendant
3. A compression stocking

3 things on your mind:
1. Money
2. Pain
3. The scam phonecall I just received

3 of your favorite smells:
1. Coffee
2. Pine
3. Violets

3 words to describe how you feel now:
1. Uncomfortable (my face hurts)
2. Itchy
3. Okay

3 things you like about yourself:
1. My intelligence
2. My ability to write
3. My imagination

3 unpopular opinions you have:
1. I hate tea (the drink)
2. I'm vegetarian
3. I think I can understand why Flat Earthers believe the world is flat. (Note: They're still wrong.)

3 things you enjoy doing:
1. Writing
2. Playing games
3. Reading

3 things that you find attractive in a person:
1. Their sense of humour
2. Kindness
3. Their love of cats

3 places you have traveled:
1. Los Angeles
2. Edinburgh
3. Anglesey

3 of your favorite flowers or plants:
1. Gerbera daisies
2. Morning glory
3. Peach roses

3 facts about your current life:
1. I'm short on money
2. My carers are really nice
3. Daisy rules the roost

3 books you’ve read recently:
1. Garrison's Gorillas fanfic
2. Tourists are for Trapping - Marian Babson
3. The Adventurous Four - Enid Blyton

3 things you did this summer:
1. Worried about birds
2. Changed my care agency
3. Discovered Ocado (an online grocery store)

3 games you enjoy - any type:
1. Spider solitaire (with all 4 suits)
2. Ludo
3. Elven Mists

3 facts about your appearance:
1. I wear glasses
2. I have long nails
3. I'm wearing a compression stocking

***

Things I've done this week:
1. Reformatted all my Garrison's Gorillas fic from Word to RTF
2. Emailed all that fic to 2 fellow fans
3. Wrote a very short fic for a friend
4. Paid my large gardening bill (ouch!)
5. Rang my housing association and asked them WTH about my path

Things I haven't done this week but need to:
1. Write an email of complaint to my housing association about my path
2. Finish writing some more Person of Interest fic
3. Get the label removed from this dress because it's making me itch
4. Work out my finances
5. Order my groceries from Asda

Things I have treated myself to this week:
1. A new dress (£9)
2. Cream cakes
3. New hair clips
4. A replacement limbo (waterproof leg covering for when I shower)
5. Lindt mint dark chocolate bar

What I am looking forward to:
1. Being out of debt (working on that)
2. Seeing Christine on the 19th
3. Watching more Person of Interest
4. Chippy tea tonight!
5. Finding a reliable supplier of Squeaky Bean products

Things I would splurge on if I had the money:
1. Power hinges for my front door (push a button and it opens)
2. A Nest doorbell
3. An Alexa show
4. All the Star Trek episodes on Amazon Video
5. New dresses

Comments

[swordznsorcery]

"The Adventurous Four"! Love that one. I often find it's the lesser known Blyton stuff that I like best.

[dimity_blue]

I'm not sure I read it as a kid. I definitely had The Adventurous Four Again* but that's not available on the Kindle yet.

*I remember the cover but not the book.

I'm also hoping for The R Mystery series (The Rilloby Fair Mystery, The Ring O'Bells Mystery) at some point.

[dimity_blue]

Talking of Enid Blyton, have you read House at the Corner? I had it as a kid* and remembered I absolutely loved it, so I bought it on the Kindle.

It's really good! If you haven't read it, I really do recommend it.

*IIRC, it was my 9th birthday and I actually had a party with school friends. I'd invited A and P. A because I liked her a lot, and P because she was A's best friend and they were always together. I didn't like P much at all.

P gave me a copy of this book. I remember A giving her a look and saying, "You bought that from the corner shop!" as if annoyed P didn't put in any effort.

I couldn't tell A it was fine because I didn't give a fig for P so her disliking me too was a relief. Also, it was a really good book so, whether P intended to or not, she gave me a great gift!

[swordznsorcery]

A book is a good thing. Never mind the person who gave it to you!

My family had that book - sort of! We almost always bought books second hand, plus I have four older siblings, and sometimes there were pages missing by the time I came along! Most were still readable, and I could often find the missing pages tucked into another book! A few were little more than covers though. I don't think I ever saw enough of that one to actually read it.

[dimity_blue]

I really recommend it. It wasn't an adventure book, just a family falling on hard times and having to work together.