HODGEPODGE APRIL 14

 1. Do you celebrate Easter? If so what are your plans this year? Did you have egg hunts as a kid?

Of course we celebrate Easter especially in Germany where I am coming from. Meanwhile the Belgians do it too, there is only a very strange difference we get our eggs from the Easter Bunny, while in Belgium and France the bells from Rome bring the eggs. Difficult to understand ! But as a bunny is more cute then a church bell, you see more bunnies here now then bells ! On the above picture you see my Easter tree from last year. I have no plans this year. Probably I will see Rick.

I also had a lot of fun in collecting the hidden eggs, which my grandma had colored in all colors and my grandpa hidden in the garden. So well that sometimes the following year I found an egg or two from the year before !  

2. What's your favorite bread to find in a bread basket? 

 

A baguette (French long bread) 

3. Your favorite chick flick? 

Google explained to me that  Chick flick is a slang term, sometimes used pejoratively, for the film genre catered specifically to women's interests, and is marketed toward women demographics. They generally tend to appeal more to a younger female audience and deals mainly with love and romance.

Nothing for me I love movies like Midsommer Murders, Vera, or Lewis  

4.Tax day is rapidly approaching in the US of A...what's something you currently find 'taxing'? 

Same here unfortunately nothing to do. What I find scandalous is that retired people have to pay taxes on their pension, which is the money they payed every month to get a pension !!

5. Have you ever ridden in a taxi? Do you have a funny-scary-crazy-interesting taxi story to share? Do you use any of the newer taxi-like services such as Uber? 

Very often especially when I travel. Yes one day in London I asked the driver to take me to the Waterloo station. Ok, I climbed in the taxi and off we went. Then after a while he asked me from where I was coming. From Waterloo I told him. Waterloo ??? he said, so I have to drive you home ? No I answered I am coming from the city Waterloo in Belgium, where Wellington won the battle .... with the result that I had to tell him the whole story fortunately we arrived just when I finished ! I have never tried Uber for the simple reason that I never found one.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Just when I had decided to arrange my terrace it started to rain today. I want to run or fly away and leave all my worries behind me. Each day is the same when I think it over my life is like a pearl necklace.I think I badly need holidays, I have no energy since a long time I think this Covid period has affected us all !

HODGEPODGE APRIL 15

1. What is something you currently find 'taxing'? 

The whole lockdown situation ! You want to buy Jeans, you have to make an appointment with the shop ! That also counts for  big stores and that's really ridiculous, the result, nobody buys anything except vital things without appointment. The restaurants and cafes are still closed and I am not allowed to visit Mr. G. in hospital ! It is great time to learn to live with the virus instead of locking up the whole  population !  

                                                                     I love the lockdown

 2. I've seen this question asked in various forms on several social media sites...you can only keep three- coffee, jewelry, tacos, wine, books, dogs, chocolate, Netflix, make-up, leggings, cheese, cats Which three do you keep and how easy or hard was it for you to decide? 

Of course I would keep my cat, jewelry and cheese. Very easy to decide, all the other things are not interesting to me.

3. Tell us something you know or have learned about forgiveness? 

I have learned that you can forgive but never forget, of course it depends on what you have to forgive.  If somebody betrayes you you can forgive but not forget. If somebody spills coffee on your dress you forgive and forget !

4. What's something you'd recommend that is often overlooked and under appreciated? 

I have no idea ! What should I recommend if it is overlooked or under appreciated ? I prefer not to recommend anything. 

5. Give us a favorite word that starts with letter K and tell us why this is the one you chose.  

 

Keys ! I always put them on the same place, unfortunately the place changes and I don't find my keys !

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Today Mr. G. has a DAT scan which will determine how sick or not he is and I try to distract me as good as I can.