The Wednesday Hodgepodge! #12

I hope you are all having a good week? It's Wednesday 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. The Hodgepodge lands on National Picnic Day will you celebrate? Do you enjoy picnics? Dining out of doors picnic or otherwise? What are three or four things I'd find in your picnic basket?

I don't think we will be celebrating today as we're all back to normal after our Easter break, although I do love a picnic especially on a nice summers day as long as the insects and critters stay away. I think my favourite picnic foods are mini sausage rolls, mini scotch eggs, ham or egg sandwiches but they have to be cut in triangles instead of squares and something sweet like any sort of Mr Kipling cakes. The French Fancies would be my first pick.

2. A time recently where you felt 'antsy'?

On Sunday after having a night away I was ready to be home but we had to wait for the next bus and we were ready far too early. I started feeling antsy, there was nothing wrong but I just couldn't settle my nerves. I knew there was nothing wrong with me, the bus was running on time and all was well at home. I just had to wait it out.

3. As the saying goes...'when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.' Do you like lemonade? When did you recently need to make lemonade out of lemons, figuratively speaking?

I do like lemonade and drink it often. I really enjoy it on a warm day with lots of ice.

Once in a while I will get a negative comment left on a blog post, I could let them ruin my day but sometimes I turn those mean or argumentative comments into motivation to write blog posts. On my blog post about candles last month I received a comment saying "They are also the leading cause of house fires." I did some research and found out that isn't true, candles are not the biggest cause of house fires and wrote the blog post How to prevent kitchen fires before they start!. 

4. Recently five 'celebrities' made a brief (ll minute) foray into space aboard Jeff Bezos Blue Origin rocket. Did you hear about this? Your thoughts? If money were no object is this something you'd like to do someday?

I did hear about the celebrities going up into space but didn't know much about it apart from one of them was the singer Katy Perry. My first thought was what a waste of money especially when people are going hungry, without medical care, warm homes or even everyday things that they need. Sending rockets into space willy-nilly can't be good for the environment and our planet either.

No thank you, I like to keep myself on the ground. I won't even go on a plane as it terrifies me so the thought of going in a rocket is the thing of nightmares.

5. Favorite thing about the 'space' you're sitting in right now?

I love my little space in the living room. I have my own comfy armchair so I don't have to share, I have a little table to my right where I have a drink, snacks and most things I need without having to get up. To my left is the TV with the wrestling on at the moment, I have a blanket over me to keep cosy, my feet up on a footstool and my laptop on my knee! What more could I want for a Sunday afternoon! 

6. Insert your own random thought here.

My eldest daughter took me to a bar on Saturday night which she loves but I hated every second. The bar staff were rude, the music was too loud, the smoke machine was pumping out too much smoke, the lights were flashing too much and everyone was half my age. We stopped for one drink and that was enough. I would say I felt too old for nights out but we had been to a different bar before and the atmosphere was totally different. I wished we had stayed there but at least I got to experience something that young adults love.