FOUR QUESTIONS ASKED, FOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND MORE.

I know,  I'm being really naughty, with a stack of books that I've read and reviewed waiting in my draft box AND a pile read but yet to be reviewed AND a tbr mountain that never seems to lessen, only grow, I really don't have the time to be posting other things but such is life and I enjoyed JENNERS 4 QUESTIONS ASKED , 4 QUESTIONS ANSWERD so much that I simply had to join in - don't you just love her as her alto-ego, Amazajen?

Anyway, to answer Jenner's four questions.

What would you do on a perfect day? (No monetary restrictions … just imagine away).

Firstly I'd find myself falling (Alice In Wonderland style) down a huge rabbit hole where I'd present the Queen Of Hearts with some croquet mallets and balls so that she wouldn't have to use flamingos and hedgehogs before having tea (well, hot chocolate) with the Mad Hatter. Then I'd spend some time in the 100 Acre wood giving Eeyore a cuddle - if ever a donkey needed a hug - before calling in on Charlie in his chocolate factory who is retiring and would like ME to take over the running of the place. Finally spending the night, dancing in the snow, with Edward Scissorhands (one of my favourite films, how I sob at this bit.)

Have you ever stayed up for 24+ straight hours? Why?

No, I like my bed too much BUT I have spent a good fifteen/sixteen hours without sleep when we would do an annual overnight fundraising disco at the community centre's play scheme. A 'killer', I'd crawl into bed at about eight in the morning not to be seen until at least eight the following day. Mind you I swear I suffer from jetlag on the three or so hour flight from Newcastle to Germany.

Have you ever laughed so hard your stomach muscles and face hurt? What made you laugh that hard?
Several times. I know I perhaps shouldn't of found this funny but I did ... and, I confess, still do.
My sister and I were shopping for an outfit for a wedding she had been invited to. Watching her try on shoes, whilst I looked after her daughter (Niece #1, now 21), I took my eyes off the buggy for a few seconds to comment on said shoes only to discover that my niece had reached over and grabbed hold of a VERY expensive hat, plucking it of the feathers that adorned it. Never have we vacated a shop so quickly.

What is the earliest time in your life you can remember?
Ooh that's a hard one.

I can't remember how old I actually was but I must have been about three, possibly four. It was the first 'proper' party I had been invited to at a friends house. That ages me, in those days there were no trips to the pictures (cinema), no discos with magicians or men shaping animals out of balloons, no sleepovers, we had tea parties in our homes for family and a FEW friends. Anyway, time for PASS THE PARCEL, the music stops and, hey, I'm left to unwrap the last layer of paper, to claim the prize. I can't recall exactly what the prize was but it was the first thing I'd ever won and I wanted it, oh how I wanted it. Only problem was so did the birthday girl who was used to getting what she wanted when she wanted it - oh the drama, the tears, the stamping of feet. No, not mine, I had been brought up better than that and remember handing over MY prize.

What fun. And so onto my four questions:-

1. You are going to a fancy dress party - what is your costume of choice and why?
2. What is the oddest gift you have ever received/given?
3. Every Christmas morning we would eat tinned hotdogs for breakfast. A family we know ate a box of malteser chocolates in bed to celebrate a birthday. Do you have any holiday traditions? If not, what tradition would you like to start?
4. You find a time machine to which time in history would you travel and why?

This invite is open to all, please feel free to answer my questions and hopefully ask some of your own but in particular I'd like to ask these questions of .........

• KELLY @ Kelly's Thoughts And Ramblings.
• ODDY @ Dani's Letters.
• DIZZY C @ Dizzy C's Little Book Blog
• NAIDA @ The Book Worm.

That done, I thought I could safely get back to my book reviews but alas this was not to be what with Molly and her CRUMBS - a great post that I could totally identify with, it ended with the wonderful words ......

I have been eating toast in bed ever since

Which got me thinking of the childhood 'rules' that I came to rebel against as an adult.

Toilet Paper - As a child my father had this massive thing about the number of sheets we used. Honestly I think if he could have getting away with it he would have stood at the toilet door, handing out single sheets of loo roll as we went in. I rebelled and now take delight in using an abundance of the stuff.

Likewise - the washing of hair and time spent doing so. As a teenager I had greasy hair and when I say greasy I mean of oil-slick proportions, yet I was only allowed to wash my hair twice a week, Wednesday and Sunday, UNLESS there was a special occasion (Christmas Eve for example) AND whats more I only had a certain length of time in which to do it before my father would bang on the door creating such a fuss. I rebelled and now if I want to spend half-an-hour, an hour even, in the shower I will do.

Molly I salute you for eating that toast in bed - the more crumbs you make the better.

So what made rebels of you?

Not too well at the moment, another nasty chest infection, I plan to schedule some posts to appear over the next few days so apologies if I do not get around to visiting you as I normally would, I wouldn't want to be spreading any germs amongst you. (What do you mean it doesn't work like that?) Oh and just in case I don't get to see you, may I wish all my blogger buddies across the pond a very happy Thanksgiving for tomorrow. PW

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