Favourite colour?
Favourite nail polish?
What is your favourite kind of tree/plant.
Do you have a mantra or motto that you follow?
Do you have a favourite Gemstone?
Who is a massive inspiration in your life?
Electric blue, but any blue is good.
Ooh, tough one. I like Bourjois because the finish looks far more professional than I have any right to claim (lol). My preferred colours are natural French manicure-styles, so peaches and pale pinks. I do have a fabulous slut-red that I love though. I would love to have a manicure from you though because yours are just amazing.
Oh, I also cheat and use the stick-on manicures for big events.
Fuchsia Magellanica molinae 'Lady's Eardrops'. It looks great as a shrub or tree. As a tree it has the most beautiful trunk when it gets old, it looks like knotty hazel but a lighter matte brown. It's also frost hardy to around -20C so it's a tough fucker for one so delicate-looking.
I also have a soft spot for Ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens, or mondo grass/black turf lily. I grow it in pots, you can never have too much of it. One day all of those potted up babies will take permanent pride of place in a formal border.
Don't expect, that way you won't be disappointed - from my Mama.
Pedicabo Adversa - my family motto.
Amethyst is my birthstone so I have a lot of it. I like amber because it's not a stone per se. I have a large specimen piece of quartz called Thomas and two large twin amethyst points. Those three are worth £250. XD Right now I'm wearing a blue topaz pendant which is smooth polished cabochon on the front and facetted on the reverse, it creates an amazing light-catching effect and really shows off the blue of the stone. Picking a favourite would be tough but the Sanskrit word for topaz suggests heat or fire, which I rather like. I like good quality aquamarine too, but the deeper blue tones are harder to come by, the more common washed-out blue doesn't really appeal.
My mommy, she's had a ridiculously tough life but she still finds joy in little things and she bubbles along. Sometimes I speak and hear her voice. Not sure if good or not....
Speaking of secret languages, ph'nglui mwgl'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn?
He does indeed.
Are you like me, you think your kid is the most adorbz face thing ever and other people's kids just kinda suck? If you do, are you "That Mom"? The one that brags about everything Mageling does and acts kind of snotty about it? 'Cuz I kind of am. And I try not to be, but I can't help it.
What do you wanna be when you grow up?
If you could only eat 1 food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
and finally, how are you?
Also, I've heard that some of Tupac's ashes were smoked in a blunt by his Outlawz crew. Not sure if this is true or not.
Well yeah, that's because a lot of people bring their kids up to be utter brats. The after-school club my boy was at was a nightmare because I'd walk in to collect him and get kids walking up demanding to know who I'd come for. More than once I'd glare and say 'NOT YOU'.
I make a point of not showing off how fab the Mageling is, mostly because when I was post-natal there were a lot of competitive parents who treated it like a point-scoring exercise, either by having to be more traumatically depressed or by trying to make one feel inadequate for having the audacity to be mentally ill.
I can understand the temptation though, my niece is a gifted learner who reads at twelve-year old level at the age of nine, and my boy reads at the years above's level.
An artist. I'll settle for garden designer as long as I have time to dick around with pencil and paper when the mood takes me.
Probably cheese. It's one foodstuff but there's enough variety to not get bored.
I'm good thanks, I should probably be in bed by now but I give no fucks. I'm sure I will tomorrow though. How are you?
Somewhere on this sweet earth, that's probably a hazing ritual to channel his energies.
Do you like Seafood by any chance?
How did you maintain your beauty after giving birth?! I'm just too damn curious! My own ma had to take years before she became so pretty. o.o
What grade are your eyeglasses? I find them adorable so I wonder :B
I do, particularly shellfish. Not so fussed about lobster though, it's a lot of money for such little eating!
Oh u. *blushes* I actually had bright red freckles after the boy was born - I'd burst pretty much every blood vessel in my face with the effort! They took ages to fade.
IIRC, about -6.5. My right eye is worse than my left 'cos of the muscle weakness. I'll be getting new specs soonish. Before I detached my retinas, they were -9.0, so oddly enough, they've improved since then. Not sure about the trade-off of depth perception for improved eyesight though. Think I got robbed there.
Do you have any tattoos? Would you get any?
Do you have any fears, irrational or otherwise?
What is your drink of choice on...
A hot summer's afternoon
A cold day
After work
During work
After sex
Why did you and Yopy start yomping up mountains?
How do you like your eggs?
If there was some kind of alien invasion / war scenario going on in the UK. Who from TLS would you magic over to help you, what roles would you give them and where would you make a base camp?
Do you prefer American or British or Other movies?
What's your top 5 road trip songs?
Are you a very organised person in general or do you throw caution to the wind a lot? (any examples/stories will be appreciated)
I have four tattoos at present (in order of inking): a moogle on my left arse cheek, an angel on my left shoulderblade, a half-caduceus on my lower back (a 'tramp stamp' if you have to use the phrase), and my son's name in Arabic on the left-hand side of my bikini line. I went for Arabic because a bonkers Turkish tattoo artist designed it and stylised it. I vowed never to have a name tattooed so I think this a neat dodge.
I definitely want more too.
Not really, though sometimes I get the collywobbles going downhill on my bike after coming off it, I just brake gently until the bike slows down.
Strong unsweetened tea is the answer to all of those. I do like coffee in the mornings though. I'd have to have water as a close second though.
It was a bit of a dare to start with. He was planning a backpacking tour of the UK and asked if anyone wanted to meet up. I wanted to climb Scafell anyway so I pitched it to him, half expecting to be told to fuck off. He agreed and we met up on a Friday, went to Alton Towers as an ice breaker and went on everything fast and scary. I didn't know at the time that he didn't like rollercoasters. Lolwhoops. The next day we drove to Cumbria via Manchester, where we met Belmat and had lunch with him. We couldn't find the car and I got a parking ticket.
We did the climb and the following day I dropped him off in Carlisle where he went onwards to Scotland. Two weeks later I was working at the Shrewsbury Flower Show and he was headed back to Brum on the homeward leg so we met up and went on the piss with my colleagues.
Last year I dared him to climb Ben Nevis and he agreed.
This year marks the last of the UK Three Peaks.
Unfertilised.
For now, anyway.
Ooh, base camp would be somewhere in the Home Counties - NIMBY that you middle-class fuckwads!
I'd have to summon Yop and Fangu for comms shit online, and possible hax shenanigans, GLD and Clicky for provisions and feeding the troops, Ami because FPS expert
, Ghost for tactics, Mog and Carlos because they're military, and Tres as our peacemaker (makin' love not war). That's off the top of my head, if I thought about this I'd definitely want more good folk around!
I like Brit flicks, action movies and subtitled films - there's some ace foreign films like District 13, Old Boy, Amélie and Nightwatch that are easily overlooked simply because they lack English dubbing. A travesty!
Five road songs are a difficult question because there's gotta be a good mix of warble-friendly and lively songs. Plus some songs make me press down that little bit harder on the accelerator....
1. Anything from Babel by Mumford and Sons for warbling.
2. Anything from Version 2.0 by Garbage
3. The Sickness - Disturbed
4. Anything from Re-Animation by Linkin Park
5. Prince Charming by Metallica (another warbler).
I like to be organised and have a logical order to things, but things have a tendency to grow legs and walk around in my house. Many a time I've gone knickerless simply because I CBA to hunt round for clean scanties.
I really want to ask you an interesting question.
Uh. I can't think of anything.
What is the most interesting question I could ask you?
Something in-depth that provokes an air of adventure with a hint of mystery - my favourite flavour ice cream is cookies and cream.
*Hugh Dennis Voice*
Do you like the music...of...Showaddywaddy?
How do you take your tea/coffee?
You've mentioned being interested in Celtic Mythology before, iirc, what sparked the interest?
Have you ever done any creative writing?
What was your favourite subject in school?
What would you like to study in future? Be it through the education system or on your own initiative?
Gods no, I hate Showaddywaddy! Love Hugh Dennis though.
Tea is brick-red, like soup, no sugar. Coffee is now black with two sugars (I ditched milk in coffee last week).
Erm, a mix of things - I'm fascinated with Celtic heritage because it's kind of a lost history, but it had a massive impact on early Briton life. I love that the gods weren't random deities who popped up now and again, they mingled with the kings and could be affected by regular folk just like well, regular folk. Only ones who could seriously fuck your shit up.
Yep, I started writing something that began to turn into a novel but then the computer died, it's still on the old hard drive but I wasn't impressed when I last re-read it. I do think I could improve on it massively now. I've had a couple of dreams that have formed the basis of stories, I just don't much time to work on them :/
Art; we were allowed to have the radio on when we worked. Plus I produced some FFVII-based artwork in that class and didn't get told off for wasting time. I wish my maths teacher could see the genius in that.
I'm pondering studying garden design as a formal course, I'd like to do my Level 3 diploma in Horticulture but finding somewhere to study part-time is proving fecking difficult. Two things that interest me ATM are plant pathology and fungi.
What do you do when you need to have a poo in an English country garden?
Drop your pants and suffocate the ants in an English country ga-ar-den.
Or else do the totter of anxiety to the ladies room.