58 posts tagged “qotd”
Have you ever broken a bone? If so, how?
No, but a friend once broke her arm on my head.
What do you do when you find yourself with nothing to do?
Submitted by Cassie.
What is this thing you call "nothing to do"???
What is the worst city you've ever been to and why?
Submitted by Soup.
I keep missing the qotds (why oh why, dear vox, do you have to put them right at the scroll-break so I can't see the dratted things?? stupid homepage redesign) but I saw this one on BrittneyBush's vox and was just compelled to answer. So, given that it's no longer in the list, I made my own :-)
crewe. without a doubt, crewe. crewe of which alan davies once quipped "crewe, twinned with a crater on mars". and there's a reason for that. we weren't really meant to be there. it was a stop on our way home (sunday trains) from chester. we were to change from a bus to a train there, but djeli's brother and sister-in-law took pity on us poor carless creatures and said "ew. bus. we'll drive you to crewe so it'll be trains all the way". and so they did.
so we entered crewe on a dark grey november sunday and it suddenly seemed like we had come to the plains of hell. this is a place so dismal you can't believe people live here. everything is grey. and the bits that aren't are a scummy dark brown. there is far, far too much pebblecrete for the sake of sanity, and the houses all look the same. it's the kind of place where you need a drinking problem to survive, but once you have a drinking problem, you probably won't survive because all the houses look the same, you won't be able to find your one and will end up dying in a snowdrift on the street where you live. i saw a newspaper advertisement on the side of a building, declaring cheerfully amid the gloom: "the chronicle: for news! for ads! for you!" and i think it was at around that point that the djeli-rels decided that it would be an inhumane act to leave us there and so drove us to birmingham instead. we were intensely grateful.
i should probably add that i suspect we were seeing crewe at far from its best. there's a slim chance that it might be quite a civilised place to live. but you won't get me even considering it...
Were your holiday cards store bought, handmade, online, TBD or MIA?
is there an "all of the above" option?
For a full sit-down dinner with several guests, would you rather be the one cooking or do you prefer to just show up and eat?
i'd rather be cooking - but with a slight adjustment to being me and actually being organised about the cooking, doing as much as possible in advance and planning the menu right, rather than doing what i usually do and running about in a screaming panic and never getting to talk to the guests and generally serving the meal at least an hour after everyone expects it. hmm.
Clowns: delightful or terrifying?
completely freaky. i can only deal with the cirque du soleil type, and even those send a shiver down my spine sometimes.
Where is your favourite place to be on a sunny Sunday afternoon?
Submitted by Rev Stan.
right where i am now, i think. sitting in my deckchair in our garden with my laptop, working on my composition, reading twitter posts as they come in and listening to the quiet family sounds of our neighbours having relations round to celebrate their new baby. it all feels very peaceful and right.
How often are you wrong? Do you find it difficult to admit it when you are?
Submitted by emily ann.
wrong? what's that? :-)
What other names did your parents consider for you?
they say that if i'd been a boy i'd have been 'millstone aloyisius'. guess i'm glad i wasn't a boy!
they named me 'caitlin' after the wife of the poet dylan thomas. when they told my grandmother apparently she said "oh, so you want her to marry a drunken bum, do you?". this naming thing is all very fraught...
What kind of camera(s) do you own?
i have three camers in use at the moment :-)
- my trusty sony dsc-v1 digital camera. 5MP, 4*optical zoom, for which i have attachment telephoto, macro and dodgy wide-angle lenses. it's a great little camera - the perfect compromise between a huge'n'heavy slr and a compact. it's light and pretty sturdy and mostly takes great photos, although pictures get a little noisy using anything more than 200 ISO. at the moment it's suffering a little - having been hit by an enormous welsh wave at new year, the little shuttery lens-cap doesn't close any more, and i've noticed a bit of a degration of image quality over the past few months too. time to check it in for a service, i think.
- my old film slr, a canon eos500 which i bought in 1998 when i first went to europe but which is so heavy that i couldn't even contemplate it when i was planning for a solo trip in early 2005. i rescued it out of storage when we were in australia a couple of months ago and am really enjoying playing around with it. i think this will be the camera i drag for for photowalks or significant photographic occasions.
- and the newest camera in my collection is my little phone-cam. it's a 2MP camera and takes quite a nice photo. i haven't done terribly much with it yet, but it's nice to have if one needs to just snap to remember an occasion but doesn't want to lug a proper camera about
