Ask the Person Below You a Question: Thread Four! Countdown to C********! ?

I'm still regularly in touch with a school friend from the age of 11. My other school friend from those days sadly died 3 years ago.
Have you ever done a 50 mile walk? I did one in 1963.

I have considered sheltered housing but feel that I am not ready for it yet.

I'm not officially a veggie but I eat very little meat and for Christmas dinner I often eat salmon.

Do you still meet old school friends?

Shortage of the pigs or the blankets?
Yes, I like them and often make them especially at Christmas.

If you are vegetarian, do you make a nut roast, or buy a meat substitute for your Christmas dinner?

I seek solitude whenever possible

Do you ever have "pigs in blankets" over the holiday?

I love them. Apparently there is going to be a shortage this year!

Oh, does this have to be a Christmas theme? Sorry. OK.

Do you like large gatherings of family and friends at Christmas? Or do you seek solitude whenever possible?

No, I don't like Christmas. Not sure why really, but a grey blanket lands on my head and stays there until 2nd January.

Do you ever consider moving into sheltered housing of some sort as you get older?

No I don't go easy but past experience has taught me if I over do it I will suffer - and definitely no Christmas cake as I don't seem able to digest it for days (shame because I love it!)

Do you usually enjoy Christmas - I do but I have a friend who hates it :-(

I'm not going to put my favourite swear word on here Fanny as it's far too rude.

I visit my sister after lunch on Christmas Day and usually her adult children do also so there's about 12/13 of us.

Do you go easy on what you eat on the big day as you don't want to put on any extra weight or is it to hell with the consequences?

I am long sighted and need glasses to correct it.

Do you have a big family gathering at Christmas?

I always spend it quietly with a nephew who lives nearby. Big family gatherings stress me out.

No not yet. Won’t be long though.

Are you short or long sighted. Me? very short.

Oh yes Mollygo I live next door but one to our local primary school the new ones are very tiny (our GD starts next week)

Has anyone bought any Christmas gifts?

No, well certainly not in this country. I admire those children from Lavington school who are swimming the channel in a relay this week. Their open water training sounded tough.

It’s so lovely seeing children going back to school this week. So many friends have sent pics of their children/grandchildren starting school or moving on to high school.
Have you seen many new school starters around where you live?

Good lord no!
I live as far from the sea as is possible in the UK.
I hate swimming due to a horrible childhood event too, and would almost certainly come a cropper.

What’s your favourite swear / curse word, vulgar or silly, anything?

I hardly have any valuables. Those I have are in a safe.

Do you ever go 'wild swimming'? That's what they call it now;
when I was young it was just swimming in the sea.

Two robbers kicked my door in and wanted money! I spoke to them like they were children and told them in a very firm voice that I dont keep money in the house and they ran off with nothing. That was VERY scary.

So on this subject:-

Do you ever keep valuables at home? Or everything in bank/safe deposit?

No, I haven’t. I don’t know whether I would absolutely love it, or be too scared to even get in it.

What’s the physically scariest thing that you’ve ever done?

Yes I could. I was very bendy when young. Couldn't do it now to save my life.

Have you ever been up in a hot air balloon?

September - well, I start to think about C-------s but these days I don't do much about it - not yet anyway.

Were you able to do the splits as a child? Could you do so now without ending up in A&E? I never could.

Fanny
There is a thread on the perfect day ?

Yes- I associate childhood with plaster casts and a huge black Labrador -well he seemed huge then. It’s true about memories prompted by others talking and recently by my sister’s research into our past via mounds of photos.

Do you do anything special in September?

Thanks Fanny! - OK I will start a 'perfect day' thread!!

New question:

Can you remember being a young child?
(I can but I think it maybe because the things I remember were often spoken about by my mum and dad)

MichaelGN has edited the title already! Wow, he’s on the ball early this morning!
Danni I’m going to have a think, that’s a damn good question. That would be a good thread.
Anyone else?

Yes I am feeling Autumnal but hopefully we have some better weather coming to take us back to Summer for a little while

Describe your perfect day (fantasy or real life)

Oh dear! I don’t know what happened to the title