The Wednesday Hodgepodge! #11

It's Wednesday again which means it's time to join in with the Wednesday Hodgepodge with Joyce over at From This Side of the Pond! Each week there are 6 questions, we answer and then link up. Simple!

1. What's a lesson you've learned from a mistake?

In my life I have learned so much from making mistakes, I feel that's sometimes that's how we learn and grow. I am not perfect and I am always making mistakes but I do learn from them. Just over the past couple of weeks I've learned things from my past mistakes. I waited to plant my seeds until the worst frosts on an morning have passed, I have stopped buying Andrex toilet rolls as they don't seem to last as long as the supermarkets own brand, I have learned not to believe my girls when they say they have no dirty washing in their bedrooms and I've learned not to trust the bus timetable as they are a law unto themselves!

2. Do you salt food while you're cooking or let diners add their own? What's a food you think must be salted? Do you like pepper?

I don't add salt when I am cooking and let people add their own if they want to when the food is ready. I don't see what difference a pinch of salt makes when cooking a meal. I know people are going to tell me I am wrong but I've had no complaints about my cooking.

Chips!! Chips have to have plenty of salt and of course vinegar on!

I am not a big fan of pepper but my family are, they use it all of the time. There's only one thing I add pepper too and that is the odd time I use tinned tomatoes in a meal.

3. What was the last gathering you attended and what did you do there?

I don't go to many gatherings unless you count going to my dad's most Friday's. There'll be my girls, me and Stu when he is off work, my brother and sometime his partner and her kids and of course my dad and sometimes his partner. We do love a Friday get together, my dad cooks for us all and we have a good catch up and put the world to rights. We are close as a family and would do anything for each other but we're not very sociable and don't pop around each others houses often, we all have busy lives so these Friday's have become quite special.

4. Your favorite shade of purple? What's your favorite purple flower?

Purple is my all time favourite colour, I don't think I have a favourite shade. I prefer the darker purples to the pastel one's despite me having purple hair quite a few times.

As for my favourite flower the only purple one I could think of off the top of my head was lavender and as pretty as it is to look at, I hate the smell. I don't know what it is about it but it always makes me feel nauseous. After a quick Google, I think my favourite purple flower is the Iris or Lilac.

5. Share a favorite spring travel memory.

I don't think I have ever really travelled in Spring, we always seem to travel more in the summer or later on in the year. I think it is because my girls would only get 2 weeks off school over Easter and that is when everywhere seems to put their prices up.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

Writing this blog post has become part of my Sunday routine! I love answering these random questions. Sunday is also became my day for watching movies. I have just started watching The first Matrix movie and will probably watch all of them over today. I've seen them all before but they are a good series even if it took me years to understand them.