The Wednesday Hodgepodge #24

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 who blogs at From This Side of the Pond! Each week there are 6 questions, we answer and then link up. Simple!

1. What's worth standing in line for?

I don’t like standing in lines at all. If I’m stuck in one for more than five minutes I start questioning whether it is actually worth my time. So for me to willingly queue it would have to be something I really need like the bathroom and even then I have been known to just say stuff it to the ladies queue and just go and use the men's facilities, they never have a queue like the ladies toilets.

2. Tell us about a favorite food related memory.

One of my favourite food related memories has to be Sunday dinners with my family when I was little. The kitchen would be some sort of organised chaos with pots boiling, trays clattering and my brother and I sneakily stealing roast potatoes the second they came out of the oven (Of course we burned our fingers but we never learned). The best bit wasn’t even the food, it was everyone squeezed around the table: my grandad, aunts, cousins, parents and my brother, talking over each other, laughing and fighting for the last Yorkshire pudding.

3. What are some things you find particularly peaceful or calming?

For me, some of the most peaceful moments are the really simple ones. The every day moments: sitting down with a cup of tea at the end of the day, listening to the rain falling and hitting the window, watching butterflies and the bees fly around my garden and that time at night when I am the last one up and my family are all tucked up in bed.

4. Is there something you do now that gets you just as excited as it did when you were a child?

Opening presents! It doesn’t matter if I was 5 or 45, the thrill of tearing into wrapping paper is still the same. Even if I already know what’s inside, I still get that same little kid excitement knowing the present is for me.

5. To what degree are you in touch with friends from grade school? high school? college if you attended college?

I’m still friends with a few people from school and college on Facebook but that’s about as far as it goes. Life just took all of us in different directions, different cities, careers, families and routines so those connections seemed to fade naturally. Every now and then I scroll through their posts to see what they are getting up to and smile at the memories.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

I have been watching the movie My Oxford Year while writing this blog post. I went into it knowing nothing about it apart from people had been talking about it online. It completely caught me off guard! The story, the friendships and heartbreak. It definitely wasn't what I was expecting but I enjoyed every minute.