HODGEPODGE MAY 16

1. What impresses you? 

I really don't know for the moment what impresses me.

In my life I have witnessed so many new inventions, even the first flight to the moon, from electric lawnmowers to robots and the same with vacuum cleaners. Central heating, bathrooms, inside restrooms, the huge American cars, I experienced the hippie era, Woodstock, Elvis, the Beatles,the laws for women changed, so really what else is supposed to impress me? Everything seems like "déjà vu" to me. 

2.  Where are you in your family birth order? Do you fit the stereotype of that particular slot? In what way?

Easy, the queen or the president just as you like, I am an only child !

3. What motivates you more-a reward or a consequence? Elaborate. 

I think consequences, rewards wouldn't motivate me

4. May 14th is National Buttermilk Biscuit Day. Who thinks biscuits deserve their own day? Do you like biscuits? Make your own? Grab one for breakfast at a drive-through now and then? Which drive-through makes the one you like best? What do you like to put on a biscuit? What's your favorite food or dish that calls for buttermilk? 

In Belgium Buttermilk is not known very much, I like to drink it cold when it is hot, but that's coming from Germany, there Buttermilk is well known. Nobody to my knowledge goes through a drive through for breakfast, there is not even a understandable word for that in French. I think here it is called "Take away". The English expression of "take away" moved into the French language and other languages too. 

At Mac Donald's you can "take away" "or home delivery" and compose a breakfast. Usually it would be a coffee and a croissant. In my family Breakfast was mostly ignored, nobody was hungry early mornings when we had to get up to work. Often a hot coffee was sufficient. For tourists maybe it's different, I have met some here in Waterloo, they arrived at 6 am and nothing was open for breakfast ! They had to wait until Mac Donald opened at 7 am to get a little breakfast. Of course I am talking only about the region I live,  I don't know if in Brussels a "Take away" is open during night or early mornings.

Classical Breakfast "Take Away"

5. Are there any weddings on your summer calendar? What's your favorite part of a wedding/wedding reception? 

On my calendar, there are no weddings anymore, no christening, but many funerals, which is normal for me at my age, because most of my friends are widows and  would never marry again, or passed away.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

I'm feeling a bit down at the moment. It's raining again and I'm having breathing difficulties. I would love to travel, but I don't dare because I don't know whether I can walk properly or whether I have to sit down all the time to get back my breath.

 

Fortunately I'm here, I have company to distract me and also medical care. Luckily I haven't needed it yet. It looks like permanent holidays !