Aussie Readers discussion
Introductions
>
Getting to know you - A Fun 'My Favourite Things' Quiz
message 651:
by
Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen
(new)
Oct 22, 2011 04:18AM
Mod
reply
|
flag
My Favourite... 1. Time of Day: Sunrise
2. Food: Nachos
3. Drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic): Good apple cider
4. Band/singer: Nick Cave
5. Actor: Whoever's playing the Doctor at the time.
6. Spot in Australia: The beach, any beach.
7. Team/Sport: N/A (I have a mutation in my sport gene)
8. Car: Aston Martin
9. Animal: Moose
10. Activity : Science (and reading)
11. Things to collect: Books!
My list...1. Time of Day: Dusk
2. Food: Sweet: Chocolate, Savoury: Prawns
3. Drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic): Day: coffee Night or Day: Champagne (best enjoyed with friends or family!)
4. Band/singer:Coldplay
5. Actor: Hugh Jackman, Johnny Depp, Colin Firth
6. Spot in Australia: Too many beautiful places to mention! We are truly blessed :)
7. Team/Sport: Not really into following sports but love watching my kids play sport and anything we can do together as a family ie. bike riding on a weekend
8. Car: If I'm driving I like them, small, if I'm being driven, big and roomy! (I don't like parking big cars)
9. Animal:Dogs are my favourite, we have two at the moment
10. Activity : Um...reading! But I love being creative
11. Things to collect: I don't collect anything...have been living in the same house for 16 years and have accumulated too much stuff without trying!
My Favourite...
1. Time of Day: Evening
2. Food: Italian
3. Drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic): Merlot / Coffee
4. Band/singer: The Beatles
5. Actor: Peter O'Toole
6. Spot in Australia: Sydney
7. Team/Sport: Tennis
8. Car: Land Rover
9. Animal: Horse
10. Activity: Walking
11. Things to collect Books
1. Time of Day: Evening
2. Food: Italian
3. Drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic): Merlot / Coffee
4. Band/singer: The Beatles
5. Actor: Peter O'Toole
6. Spot in Australia: Sydney
7. Team/Sport: Tennis
8. Car: Land Rover
9. Animal: Horse
10. Activity: Walking
11. Things to collect Books
Mod
Looks like you're a newbie too...welcome! Lovely to have you on board:)
1. Time of Day: Early morning before the world wakes up, everything is so calm and peaceful.2. Food: Potatoes! Hot chips, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, potato salad - I don't discriminate!
3. Drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic): Old fashioned lemonade made with real lemons
4. Band/singer: Florence & the Machine & any 80s band/singer, love 80s music!
5. Actor: Don't really have one.
6. Spot in Australia: Can we include NZ in this question? If so, pretty much all of South Island in NZ.
7. Team/Sport: Don't follow sport =(
8. Car: Anything that's really small and easy to park.
9. Animal: Donkeys
10. Activity: Reading, eating, sleeping, bike riding. Anything that's not work really!
11. Things to collect: I am a bit of a minimalist so don't really collect anything, but in a parallel universe I would collect cute donkey figurines.
Mod
Michael wrote: "Someone loves potatoes :DWelcome to our friendly group Bee. :)"
Who doesn't love potatoes?
Welcome Bee - I'm about to enjoy a yummy potato bake :)
Haha that probably explains why I am starting to resemble a potato!
I don't love potatoes - I barely tolerate potatoes and like them best when they are the most disguised (I like chips, the hot and cold variety) but mashed - meh, boiled urgh - roast - only when there are no other vege choices.Potatoes are boring.
But then I don't know anyone else who doesn't like potatoes, everyone I know loves them. They think I'm strange and overindulge in mash when I'm not around so they don't have to watch me endlessly push it round my plate.
Mmmmm kumara, pumpkin, parsnip, yams - I love those
Megan wrote: "I don't love potatoes - I barely tolerate potatoes and like them best when they are the most disguised (I like chips, the hot and cold variety) but mashed - meh, boiled urgh - roast - only when the..."You are missing out in life! And given you love pumpkin, parsnip & sweet potato (yams) I am pretty confident people have just been f*@king with your potatoes so far.
When in doubt: add olive oil, lemon juice, garlic yum!
(Oh and steaming kicks butt over boiling for potatoes and most other veggies too...)
Michael wrote: "Megan wrote: "I don't love potatoes - I barely tolerate potatoes ...Sounds about the same as i do with chocalate. Seriously the inventor did a bad thing inventing that abomination. "
Yeah, I'm not into chocolate as a rule... but watched a documentary were they made it pure and you could drink a shot of it and be sustained for the whole day! So I think it's the dilution of the original that is the hard to tolerate variety ;)
Yeah there is some hate in the word "boiled potatoes" that is a bit unfounded since all veggies really come steamed rather than boiled, but I think there is no hope. My parents tried for years with not luck - I got to choose how they were cooked each night. Then my flatmates tried - basically by telling me I was weird, then I went to Ireland and finally learnt to pretend when politeness requires it, now everyone has just given up. I love cooking and I still cook potatoes, some meals just need them, and then everyone else eats them :)
The not liking chocolate thing is strange, but expensive chocolate is so much better than cheap mmmmmm Do you like chocolate cake or milo (not really chocolate) or chocolate ice cream?
Wow baked potatoes with gravy are close to the highlight of any roast dinner for meI also dont eat much chocolate! Maybe 2 mars bars a year (mars bar slice on the other hand...)
How can anyone not like chocolate? The only reason I dont eat a block a day is because its bad for my skin. As soon as I leave my teenage years behind, Im going to gorge myself on chocolate!
Mod
And then you'll find it's bad for the hips Jess;D Chocolate is my (main) vice....lol
Supposedly cocoa (along with blueberries) have some awesome thing in it that gives your brain surges of energy - that's my excuse for the ridiculous amount of it I eat.And mars bar slice sounds dangerous Graham :)
Mod
It's suprisingly easy not to be into chocolate or sweets. I recommend have a dentist year where you spend $7K out of pocket on your teeth, then develop a paralysing fear of sugar... You'll find once you haven't eaten it for a few months you lose the taste for it. Then you will be much more sensitive to sweet and find it in so many other places (but totally overwhelming in say a mars bar).
Oh and cocoa and blueberries are big on antioxidants :)
Mod
Wow! That's an AWFUL amount to spend at the dentist!!! He would have loved you;D
He built an extension on the dental practice the next year, no joke...
Mod
Mod
Mod
Happy feet was overrated. Though Im like the only person in the world who thinks that.
Mod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twYq5Q... :D"
Hahah!! Thanks Michael, I enjoyed that:D
Mod
Though Im like the only person in the world who thinks that."
Oh Jess, you're so jaded!!!;D
★ Jess wrote: "Happy feet was overrated. Though Im like the only person in the world who thinks that."
You’re not the only one Jess. I sat down to watch it last night but didn’t get much past the introductory song! But in its defence I was getting close to the end of reading a book, so was probably too distracted and didn’t give it much of a chance.
My Favourite... 1. Time of Day: Very early in the morning on days off is a good time. Too bad I often like to sleep in as well!
2. Food: Fruit, and peanut butter sandwiches
3. Drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic): Coffee with milk and sugar, tea with no sugar. I only started drinking coffee and tea 2-3 years ago.
4. Band/singer: I don’t know about favourites, it changes all the time. But at the moment my highest play count for a band is A Nation in Siege by the Fureys, and for a singer is Watch Over Me by Bernard Fanning.
5. Actor: Ricky Gervais – He was great in the Office and Extras. I also like the Little Britain boys.
6. Spot in Australia: Home
7. Team/Sport: Geelong Cats (2007,2009,2011) / AFL
8. Car: Shogun Metro - It’s a bicycle! I don’t have a car
9. Animal: Cats and kittens
10. Activity: Running, riding, reading, relaxing
11. Things to collect: Smoothed shell glass from the beach. I haven’t got any for many years, but I remember there used to be lots at Loch Ard Gorge.
Mod
Brenda wrote: "Oooh!! Jesse...#7 is the best;D Go the mighty Cats!!! lol"Yes, you’re very right about that Brenda :D Go Cats!!
Mod
Yes, you’re very right about that Brenda :D Go Cats!!"
:D You're lucky living where you do, as you'd get to go to the games:) We only get to watch on TV!!
Brenda wrote: "Jesse wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Oooh!! Jesse...#7 is the best;D Go the mighty Cats!!! lol"Yes, you’re very right about that Brenda :D Go Cats!!"
:D You're lucky living where you do, as you'd get to..."
Even though I live a lot closer, most games I still just watch on TV or the radio, but every now and then I get to see a game though which is lucky, especially with all the wins lately :)
Mod
Yes, you’re very right about that Brenda :D Go Cats!!"
:D You're lucky living where you do, ..."
Yes, they sure had an awesome year! Great to be at one of those games:)
My Favourite... 1. Time of Day: Morning, when the kids have gone to school. I make myself a bolstering cup of tea, shut out the mess all around me, and start writing . . .
2. Food: Italian, Indian, Thai, savory, sweet, everything. I constantly think of food, constantly feel hungry, and it seems that I write better on a full tummy . . . really!
3. Drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic): Sauvignon Blanc (I also write better when I've had a drink. I joke that my second novel wouldn't have been written if it weren't for the inspiring effects of Sauv Blanc!)
4. Band/singer: U2, Snow Patrol, Cranberries, The Frames (still very Irish on this front). Also like a bit of Jay-Z and Eminem and I sing along to Adele when I'm in the car (and very loudly too)
5. Actor: Cate Blanchett
6. Spot in Australia: Sydney's Northern Beaches. Even after sixteen years of living here, I'm still in awe of how beautiful it is
7. Team/Sport: I'm a sports fanatic and feel totally bereft when the rugby league season finishes, but happy to substitute with union, soccer and even cricket. During the Commonwealth Games, I spent over an hour watching table tennis before my husband told me to cop on to myself . . .
8. Car: I'm not a car person, much to my aforementioned husband's dismay. If I had to pick, it would be a Merc of some sort.
9. Animal: Is a giraffe an acceptable answer?
10. Activity: My favourite activity involves some multi-tasking: drinking wine, reading, and watching sport all at the same time.
11. Things to collect: Books, of course!
Mod
Ber wrote: "My Favourite... 2. Food: Italian, Indian, Thai, savory, sweet, everything. I constantly think of food, constantly feel hungry, and it seems that I write better on a full tummy . . . really!
3. Drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic): Sauvignon Blanc (I also write better when I've had a drink..."
I completely agree :)
I am often thinking about the next meal as soon as I finish the one I'm on, and everything is better with a full tummy and a glass of wine!
1. Time of Day: Evening when I get in from work and can curl up for a few hours with a good book, especially in winter.2. Food: Roast Lamb. Because there's no such thing in the Netherlands I haven't had it for nearly two years.
3. Drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic): Diet Coke - I'm known for my saying 'time for a coke and a smoke' at work.
4. Band/singer: Powderfinger
5. Actor: Not big on movies or TV, so I have no idea!
6. Spot in Australia: Hobart wharf, eating fish and chips and watching people go by.
7. Team/Sport: AFL - I've always been a Geelong fan and since I now live in Europe I have to get up at 6am on a Saturday to watch the grand final. And I do :)
8. Car: Anything that goes is good for me!
9. Animal: Elephants
10. Activity: Reading and travelling to different cities and countries nearby - something I wouldn't have gotten the chance to do if I wasn't here
11. Things to collect: Books - I have limited space here so the ones I do have are very special to me.
Mod
Well done Kat!!! Go the Mighty Cats;D
I actually woke my bf up (he isn't an Aussie so he doesn't understand Aussie Rules!) shouting at the TV - he was not impressed at being woken up at that time - but I just kept on yelling :-D
Mod
That's the way:D You never know, you might convert him!
Well I did tell him it's one of the pre-requisites for immigration to have an aussie rules team. He said Collingwood :-|
Mod
Kat wrote: "Well I did tell him it's one of the pre-requisites for immigration to have an aussie rules team. He said Collingwood :-|"My hubby is Dutch and he picked Richmond because they have the same colours as NAC (Breda) :D
P.S. presuming you come back here, with the time difference he's sure to return the favour shouting at football/soccor in the middle of the night...
Well I told him that picking Collingwood would result in an automatic failure, but I don't think he completely believed me!Oh I'll be coming back at the beginning of 2013, but he doesn't follow soccer, so he's got something going for him at least ;)
1. Time of Day: Early morning, I like the quiet when no-one else is awake yet2. Food: Potato Pizza
3. Drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic): Green Tea with honey
4. Band/singer: So many, The Script are on right now so let's go with that :)
5. Actor: Constantly changes, today it's Ryan Gosling
6. Spot in Australia: Great Ocean Road
7. Team/Sport: AFL - Bombers, I'm struggling with no friday night football atm but I guess they need a break ;) Also a big tennis fan
8. Car: Mine, it gets me from A to B
9. Animal: Gorillas & Orcas
10. Activity: Travelling, spending time with friends, hiking, curling up on the couch with a good book
11. Things to collect: I like to travel and I buy a shot glass from every city I visit - they're functional, pretty & fit easily in your bag :)
Mod
Welcome David. The only time I've seen 5:30am is queuing for an airport check-in....nothing pleasant about that!
Mod
Aussie Readers
Books mentioned in this topic
The Beer Lovers Guide to Australia (other topics)North and South (other topics)
Storm Boy (other topics)
