Frantic Hand-Waving Bid for Attention

[f4f3]

Ask me three questions. Any three questions. Of any nature. I will answer as truthfully as I can, and as correctly as I can. Dont blame me if you dont like the answers! Then post this in your own journal, thus letting your friends (me included) ask you anything.

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[nicnac.livejournal.com]

1. Can you describe the layout of your cottage to me, please, paying particular attention to any beautiful views and the contents of your drinks cupboard/wine rack?

2. Where do babies come from?

3. Cake or death?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

1. Half a bungalow: actually, half of something that used to be a workshop/showroom for the village plumber, who decided to rebuild it in the 70's as his retiral home, and somewhere along the way split it into two cottages, so now he has one half and I have the other. Downstairs is two bedrooms, a bathroom and open plan living room/kitchen. There's also a conservatory which is really a glorified porch, but is big enough for two comfy chairs (usually) or a dinner table which seats six at a pinch. In the beautiful views category, the porch overlooks the Crinan Canal, views of which are of a seasonal nature: rainswept and sometimes drained in the Winter, glittering and occasionally decorated with passing or moored yachts in the Summer. Behind the canal is Ardrishaig, and behind Ardrishaig is Loch Fyne. If you sit looking down along the canal, you can see down Loch Fyne to Arran (unless Arran is obscured by clouds, which it is quite often). The view is better from upstairs, which at the moment is a teenager's loft, complete with double bed, double futon and hammock.

The wine rack is a bit depleted at the moment - some champagne left from K's very generous Christmas present (or was that the liquidation of our Wine Club?) a magnum of Alsace that I haven't had the right occasion to drink, and some mead type stuff from Mount Stuart. The drinks cupboard (actually the drinks dooket) has a little bit of whisky. Jura Superstition (almost done, but I'll refill the bottle because I don't think they do the one with the pewter Ankh on it anymore), three types of Bruichladdich from a visit last year, a Bowmore Darkest, a Talisker, a Springbank, a Longmorn, three Malt Whisky Sociery bottles, and a couple of the United Distilleries Flora and Fauna bottlings (a Ben Rhinees and Bladnoch, if memory serves). Of course, I keep most of my Malts elsewhere.

2. In my experience, mostly Glasgow.

3. As my doctor keeps telling me, one might well lead to the other...

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

:o) Top answers.

I do like to be able to picture places in my mind, and the cottage description has helped a lot.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Top questions :-)

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

1. Why?

2. Who?

3. What?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

1. Because I can, usually. After that, I'm more or less winging it.

2. She knows who she is.

3. If you can't be bothered wearing your hearing aid, I'm not going to repeat myself.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

VG! ;-)

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

1. What's the view from your cottage?

2. How do you come to have a LiveJournal?

3. Are you single? (OMG that sounds like such a come-on and it's not meant to be - I was just curious because you mention a son but not a Significant Other).

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

1. Answered above, so you get a freebie question if you like.

2. Like it says in my user info, Frankie made me - and I've always been an incontinent writer, anyway.

3. Details fall into the anonymity policy which I'm crap at maintaining (think of my SO as the Osborne child who never appears on the show), but the answer is no, I'm not single.

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Ooh, OK. (3) makes perfect sense - I will squee about my kids occasionally but it seems polite to leave the angst-filled discussions with my SO (for example) off-screen.

So, 4)

Favourite Scottish/Glaswegian slang term.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

4. Too many to mention... Top five?

"C'mon get aff"
"Gallus"
"The very Jinkies"
"Numpty"
"Glaikit"

and probably "Gallus" gets it as number one.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

1. What's your favourite bit of the Highlands and why?

2. Was the Act of Union a Good Thing?. Write on one side of your sporran only.

3. What would your desert island whisky be?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

1. My favourite bit of the Highlands isn't really in the Highlands, so don't tell anyone - I love Ardnamurchan: it has some of the wildness of the Highlands, with the softer aspects (literally, the views from Sanna are superb) of the Western Isles. Turn left at Fort William and drive for three or four hours on single track roads.

2. Nope, it was a bad thing. It was probably also a politically unavoidable thing, and it's brought great benefits to England over the years, but it was a bad thing and the sooner it gets repealed the beter.

3. Something I could ferment from coconuts? Failing that, Talisker, and if I have to pick a bottle, a 14.3 from the SMWS. (When Oddbins put out their own label malts back in the 80's, their Island whisky was actually Talisker, the bargain of all time at £14 or £15 a bottle).

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

1] What makes you happy?

2] If you had to choose one book as your favourite, which one would it be?

3] What do you think of me?

*g*

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

1. (C6H3(OH)2-CH2-CH2-NH2). But also being around people I love, and who love me (espescially if they're the same persons).

2. A low-brow choice, but "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler says more to me about the 20th Century, and about the urban male in particular, than anything I've ever read.

3. I think you're a highly intelligent and articulate person who has a vastly different range of perceptions, cultural and physical, from my own, and that this, coupled with the essentialy humanist worldview that we seem to share, makes your observations and opinions incredibly valuable to me. Oh, and you're also drop dead gorgeous which, you know, doesn't hurt.

[deililly.livejournal.com]

1)Greatest triumph?

2) Largest regret?

3) Place you want to see before you die?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Ooh, tough ones...

1. Hard to think of anything that isn't either too private or too flippant. Staying friends with both parents after their divorce, maybe, although that took a long time

2. Not following through on something I should have done. Which is quite cryptic, I know. Um, not getting to know my Grandad better maybe.

3. Space. From outside the atmosphere, that is.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Neat Brave Cow icon, by the way!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I really want to see them in the flesh - I'm a big Cow Parade fan, as I've commented in your journal.

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

1. Have you skived off work, or did they change the Firewall settings?

2. Did you see the MacBooks are about £700?

3. What's the most played song on your iPod this week?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

1. They changed the firewall settings - someone important must have complained
2. Yes - they're the iBook replacements, and very tempting, espescially in black
3. 1,000 Years, Ezio.

[eidechsenengel.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'm a bit late in asking...

1. Your favorite scent on a woman... doesn't necessarily have to be a perfume.

2. Favorite pet you've ever had?

3. Favorite sweet?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Not too late at all....

1. Not necessarily a perfume, eh? Chanel, then, or Paul Smith, if I'm wearing that.
2. Merlin, who's curled up at my feet as I type
3. If it's sweet as in candy, then either Ginger Altoids or Scottish Tablet, if it's sweet as in dessert, I'm a sucker for a fudge sundae, and I have been known to be partial to a dusky maiden.