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brutti_ma_buoni - warnings for being ridiculously long.1. What kind of soap is in your bathtub right now?
It’s green, that’s all I know. It might be Dove.
It’s green, that’s all I know. It might be Dove.
2. Do you have any watermelon in your refrigerator?
Nope. I only buy it ready chopped up in M&S fruit salads – too much faff otherwise. Though I know how to tell if one is ready to eat or not.
3. Is there anything mouldy in your refrigerator?
Hopefully not as I threw away the ancient stuff in the salad drawer yesterday.
4. Are there any dirty dishes in your sink?
No, because the hubby washes up every day.
5. What would you change about your living room?
The damn curtains. I’d really like to get shutters but fear that the price would be astronomical. But the curtains are always coming off their stupid hooks and also are a bit faded at the edges as they’ve been up since we moved in about 17 years ago. So yeah, probably time for a change LOL
6. Are the dishes in your dishwasher clean or dirty?
Hubby is my dishwasher – and he has always refused to get a mechanical one.
7. Do you have a can of mushrooms in your pantry?
Why would anyone want to eat canned mushrooms when you can buy fresh?
8. White or wheat bread?
I like fresh-baked white crusty bread but rarely have it. Hubby likes brown.
9. What is on top of your refrigerator?
Oh lord. I know there’s a brush and dust pan up there, and there is a bunch of other stuff but as I can’t reach that far above my head and can’t see, I couldn’t tell yo.
10. What colour is your sofa?
Orange, with an orange and black throw over it at the moment. It could do with re-covering.
11. What colour or design is on your shower curtain?
No pattern on the one in our en-suite, it's glass. The one in the other bathroom is clear plastic with white swirls on it.
12. How many plants are in your home?
None that are supposed to be in here but we do have a Virginia creeper out front that keeps sending tendrils under the floorboards in the hall and I noticed there’s a shoot now growing from the crack between the skirting board and the wall on the stairs. I’ll have to spray it…
13. How many candles are in your home?
I don’t know exactly, I’ve got three on the mantlepiece and a packet of tealights, and there are more in the conservatory though those have mostly melted in the heat of the sun. Paul gets paranoid about me burning the house down so I rarely burn them these days.
14. Is your bed made right now?
The joy of a duvet is you don’t need to make the bed.
15. If you have a coffee pot, what colour is it?
I’ve never had a coffee pot and even my Mum who’s a coffee fanatic doesn’t have one – unless you mean the thing you make the coffee in? She has one of those. I don’t drink hot drinks.
16. Electric or standard can opener?
Only people with disabilities or infirmities need an electric can opener, surely?
27. Comet or Soft Scrub?
I have no idea what you are talking about.
28. Is your closet organized?
I have a wooden and a cloth wardrobe and two chests of drawers, plastic wheelie container thingies and still half of my clothes live on the spare bed and on the floor next to my side of the bed. So, no!
29. What colour is the flashlight that you use the most?
Rarely use a torch but we have two wind-up ones I like using – one black, one see-through.
30. What kinds of things are in your junk drawer?
I don’t have ‘a’ junk drawer. Our house is FULL of drawers and most of them are full of junk. Ranging from art supplies, to old photos, school notebooks, pens and paper (OMG I have so much paper), to envelopes waiting to be recycled, letters, bills, Paul’s running medals, autographs…it’s endless.
31. Do you drink out of glass or plastic most of the time at home?
My current choice is a plastic pint glass from the Latitude Festival about 5 years ago. I’ll probably have to let it go soon as all the pretty flowers printed on it are wearing off.
32. Do you have iced tea made in a pitcher right now?
I don’t drink tea hot so I certainly wouldn’t drink it iced. There are much nicer cold drinks to be had.
33. If you have a garage, is it cluttered?
No garage, and it’s probably just as well as it would be another space to expand my mess into.
34. Curtains or blinds?
Curtains and blinds in different rooms.
35. How many pillows do you sleep with?
This makes it sound like I’d have a pillow instead of my hubby… I have one pillow but it’s an Ikea ergonomic one.
36. Do you sleep with any lights on at night?
Nope but we have the curtains open and there are street lights front and back.
37. How many ceiling fans are in your home?
None. This isn’t India, you know!
38. How often do you vacuum?
Very rarely – it makes me angry. Hubby does it with his Dyson Beast.
39. Standard toothbrush or electric?
Electric because my Dentist told me to.
40. What colour is your toothbrush?
Mostly white.
41. Do you have a welcome mat on your front porch?
We don’t have a porch. The mat inside the door is purely functional and not welcoming.
42. What is in your oven right now?
Nothing.
43. Is your microwave clean or dirty?
Don’t have one.
44. Is there anything under your bed?
I’m not sure what hubby’s got under his side (a load of boxes with stuff in) but under my side are my wheelie boxes of clothes, some flip flops, empty shoe boxes and a LOT of dust.
45. Chore you hate doing the most?
ALL OF THEM.
46. What retro items are in your home?
I don’t know what is meant by retro – we have accumulated a considerable amount of things that might now be considered retro depending on the age of the person you are talking to! The oldest item in our house is a loom weight that is c 2300 years old, but I also have an Apple Mac from the late 1970s that still worked eight years ago and that’s pretty retro.
47. Do you have a separate room that you use as an office?
We have a lot of rooms in our house but no actual room to do anything. My ‘office’ is my sofa.
48. If you have a yard, who mows it?
Our garden is very small and has no lawn – yay!
49. Is there anything on your kitchen floor right now?
Just the two bins.
50. How many mirrors are in your home?
I think there are nine.
51. Do you have any hidden emergency money around your home?
Not intentionally. Got a stash of euros though.
52. What colour are your walls?
Living room is blue, hall is cream above the dado rail and a kind of orangey pink below, dining room is a paler blue with silver decorations, breakfast room is rich yellow, kitchen is sort of white, main bedroom is mostly paler yellow, spare bedroom is pale green, back bedrooms are pale blue and white stripes.
53. Which rooms in your house have wallpaper?
Yeah…but it’s woodchip painted for the most part.
54. Do you have a peephole in your front door?
No. Though in the summer the panels shrink so you can see a sliver of daylight through the door.
55. Do you keep any kind of protection weapons in your home?
What for? Having said that, I do have a replica Iron Age La Tene sword, but it’s in the living room in it’s sheath and I don’t think it would even occur to me to want to pick it up.
56. What does your home smell like right now?
Nothing that I know of. I’m not a fan of air ‘fresheners’.
57. Fave candle scent?
I’ve always been disappointed by so called scented candles. They usually seem to smell stronger when they are sitting there doing nothing than when they are kit.
58. What kind of pickles (if any) are in your refrigerator right now?
None. There might be some mustard in the cupboard though, does that count?
59. Who are in the pictures you display?
My pictures are mostly not people related but I do have a hockey poster from the Sydney Olympics which (surprise surprise) has a hockey player on it, a photo of my hockey team from a fun tournament in Thanet about twenty years ago (gulp!) and a couple of autographed photos of Ewan MrGregor that I got when he went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed a few years back.
60. What colour is your favourite bible?
I follow the Winchester Gospels. They come in different colours of plaid.
61. Do you have plenty of cabinet space in your kitchen?
Nope, but it’s generally sufficient for our needs. We ain’t big on cooking and our kitchen is tiny.
62. Ever been on your roof?
Why would I want to?
62. Do you own a stereo? Wait! There are two number 62s!
Yep, we’re old, so we have two cd players one of which also has a cassette and a record player, and lots of radios. I only listen to music on my iPod or computer these days though.
63. How many TVs do you have?
One. Never felt the need for more, and even less so now I can watch online too.
64. How many house phones?
One line, two phones – though they are only used for phoning hubby’s parents these days. My Mum skypes.
65. Do you have a housekeeper?
Hubby.
66. What style do you decorate in?
I think I’ll call it cluttered amateur librarian
67. Do you like solid colours in furniture or prints?
Our 3 piece suite has a fairly unobtrusive print (antique Roman lettering). The throw on the sofa has a big celtic knot print and the throw on hubby’s chair is the Bayeux tapestry – so on the evidence is have to say both. But I’m not a fan of fussy or flowery prints.
68. Is there a smoke detector in your home?
Yes. Two.
69. In case of fire, what are the items you would grab if you only could make one quick trip?
In one trip…these days it’s actually easier because most of our photos have been scanned and are online, though I’d be gutted to lose the ones that aren’t saved yet. But basically I’d grab my laptop and drawing tablet, my Dad’s hockey shirts and my granny’s rings and then I’d be running round like a headless chicken wailing about all my books, art stuff, childhood diaries, autographs etc, etc, etc that I hadn’t been able to save.
70. Do you know how to work your electrical box?
I can read a meter and reset a tripped switch. I ain’t fiddling with anything else!
71. What temperature in your home is most comfortable to you?
Around 18 -20ºC is pleasant. Which is why my Mum isn’t too keen on staying with us as she thinks that is close to freezing.
Nope. I only buy it ready chopped up in M&S fruit salads – too much faff otherwise. Though I know how to tell if one is ready to eat or not.
3. Is there anything mouldy in your refrigerator?
Hopefully not as I threw away the ancient stuff in the salad drawer yesterday.
4. Are there any dirty dishes in your sink?
No, because the hubby washes up every day.
5. What would you change about your living room?
The damn curtains. I’d really like to get shutters but fear that the price would be astronomical. But the curtains are always coming off their stupid hooks and also are a bit faded at the edges as they’ve been up since we moved in about 17 years ago. So yeah, probably time for a change LOL
6. Are the dishes in your dishwasher clean or dirty?
Hubby is my dishwasher – and he has always refused to get a mechanical one.
7. Do you have a can of mushrooms in your pantry?
Why would anyone want to eat canned mushrooms when you can buy fresh?
8. White or wheat bread?
I like fresh-baked white crusty bread but rarely have it. Hubby likes brown.
9. What is on top of your refrigerator?
Oh lord. I know there’s a brush and dust pan up there, and there is a bunch of other stuff but as I can’t reach that far above my head and can’t see, I couldn’t tell yo.
10. What colour is your sofa?
Orange, with an orange and black throw over it at the moment. It could do with re-covering.
11. What colour or design is on your shower curtain?
No pattern on the one in our en-suite, it's glass. The one in the other bathroom is clear plastic with white swirls on it.
12. How many plants are in your home?
None that are supposed to be in here but we do have a Virginia creeper out front that keeps sending tendrils under the floorboards in the hall and I noticed there’s a shoot now growing from the crack between the skirting board and the wall on the stairs. I’ll have to spray it…
13. How many candles are in your home?
I don’t know exactly, I’ve got three on the mantlepiece and a packet of tealights, and there are more in the conservatory though those have mostly melted in the heat of the sun. Paul gets paranoid about me burning the house down so I rarely burn them these days.
14. Is your bed made right now?
The joy of a duvet is you don’t need to make the bed.
15. If you have a coffee pot, what colour is it?
I’ve never had a coffee pot and even my Mum who’s a coffee fanatic doesn’t have one – unless you mean the thing you make the coffee in? She has one of those. I don’t drink hot drinks.
16. Electric or standard can opener?
Only people with disabilities or infirmities need an electric can opener, surely?
27. Comet or Soft Scrub?
I have no idea what you are talking about.
28. Is your closet organized?
I have a wooden and a cloth wardrobe and two chests of drawers, plastic wheelie container thingies and still half of my clothes live on the spare bed and on the floor next to my side of the bed. So, no!
29. What colour is the flashlight that you use the most?
Rarely use a torch but we have two wind-up ones I like using – one black, one see-through.
30. What kinds of things are in your junk drawer?
I don’t have ‘a’ junk drawer. Our house is FULL of drawers and most of them are full of junk. Ranging from art supplies, to old photos, school notebooks, pens and paper (OMG I have so much paper), to envelopes waiting to be recycled, letters, bills, Paul’s running medals, autographs…it’s endless.
31. Do you drink out of glass or plastic most of the time at home?
My current choice is a plastic pint glass from the Latitude Festival about 5 years ago. I’ll probably have to let it go soon as all the pretty flowers printed on it are wearing off.
32. Do you have iced tea made in a pitcher right now?
I don’t drink tea hot so I certainly wouldn’t drink it iced. There are much nicer cold drinks to be had.
33. If you have a garage, is it cluttered?
No garage, and it’s probably just as well as it would be another space to expand my mess into.
34. Curtains or blinds?
Curtains and blinds in different rooms.
35. How many pillows do you sleep with?
This makes it sound like I’d have a pillow instead of my hubby… I have one pillow but it’s an Ikea ergonomic one.
36. Do you sleep with any lights on at night?
Nope but we have the curtains open and there are street lights front and back.
37. How many ceiling fans are in your home?
None. This isn’t India, you know!
38. How often do you vacuum?
Very rarely – it makes me angry. Hubby does it with his Dyson Beast.
39. Standard toothbrush or electric?
Electric because my Dentist told me to.
40. What colour is your toothbrush?
Mostly white.
41. Do you have a welcome mat on your front porch?
We don’t have a porch. The mat inside the door is purely functional and not welcoming.
42. What is in your oven right now?
Nothing.
43. Is your microwave clean or dirty?
Don’t have one.
44. Is there anything under your bed?
I’m not sure what hubby’s got under his side (a load of boxes with stuff in) but under my side are my wheelie boxes of clothes, some flip flops, empty shoe boxes and a LOT of dust.
45. Chore you hate doing the most?
ALL OF THEM.
46. What retro items are in your home?
I don’t know what is meant by retro – we have accumulated a considerable amount of things that might now be considered retro depending on the age of the person you are talking to! The oldest item in our house is a loom weight that is c 2300 years old, but I also have an Apple Mac from the late 1970s that still worked eight years ago and that’s pretty retro.
47. Do you have a separate room that you use as an office?
We have a lot of rooms in our house but no actual room to do anything. My ‘office’ is my sofa.
48. If you have a yard, who mows it?
Our garden is very small and has no lawn – yay!
49. Is there anything on your kitchen floor right now?
Just the two bins.
50. How many mirrors are in your home?
I think there are nine.
51. Do you have any hidden emergency money around your home?
Not intentionally. Got a stash of euros though.
52. What colour are your walls?
Living room is blue, hall is cream above the dado rail and a kind of orangey pink below, dining room is a paler blue with silver decorations, breakfast room is rich yellow, kitchen is sort of white, main bedroom is mostly paler yellow, spare bedroom is pale green, back bedrooms are pale blue and white stripes.
53. Which rooms in your house have wallpaper?
Yeah…but it’s woodchip painted for the most part.
54. Do you have a peephole in your front door?
No. Though in the summer the panels shrink so you can see a sliver of daylight through the door.
55. Do you keep any kind of protection weapons in your home?
What for? Having said that, I do have a replica Iron Age La Tene sword, but it’s in the living room in it’s sheath and I don’t think it would even occur to me to want to pick it up.
56. What does your home smell like right now?
Nothing that I know of. I’m not a fan of air ‘fresheners’.
57. Fave candle scent?
I’ve always been disappointed by so called scented candles. They usually seem to smell stronger when they are sitting there doing nothing than when they are kit.
58. What kind of pickles (if any) are in your refrigerator right now?
None. There might be some mustard in the cupboard though, does that count?
59. Who are in the pictures you display?
My pictures are mostly not people related but I do have a hockey poster from the Sydney Olympics which (surprise surprise) has a hockey player on it, a photo of my hockey team from a fun tournament in Thanet about twenty years ago (gulp!) and a couple of autographed photos of Ewan MrGregor that I got when he went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed a few years back.
60. What colour is your favourite bible?
I follow the Winchester Gospels. They come in different colours of plaid.
61. Do you have plenty of cabinet space in your kitchen?
Nope, but it’s generally sufficient for our needs. We ain’t big on cooking and our kitchen is tiny.
62. Ever been on your roof?
Why would I want to?
62. Do you own a stereo? Wait! There are two number 62s!
Yep, we’re old, so we have two cd players one of which also has a cassette and a record player, and lots of radios. I only listen to music on my iPod or computer these days though.
63. How many TVs do you have?
One. Never felt the need for more, and even less so now I can watch online too.
64. How many house phones?
One line, two phones – though they are only used for phoning hubby’s parents these days. My Mum skypes.
65. Do you have a housekeeper?
Hubby.
66. What style do you decorate in?
I think I’ll call it cluttered amateur librarian
67. Do you like solid colours in furniture or prints?
Our 3 piece suite has a fairly unobtrusive print (antique Roman lettering). The throw on the sofa has a big celtic knot print and the throw on hubby’s chair is the Bayeux tapestry – so on the evidence is have to say both. But I’m not a fan of fussy or flowery prints.
68. Is there a smoke detector in your home?
Yes. Two.
69. In case of fire, what are the items you would grab if you only could make one quick trip?
In one trip…these days it’s actually easier because most of our photos have been scanned and are online, though I’d be gutted to lose the ones that aren’t saved yet. But basically I’d grab my laptop and drawing tablet, my Dad’s hockey shirts and my granny’s rings and then I’d be running round like a headless chicken wailing about all my books, art stuff, childhood diaries, autographs etc, etc, etc that I hadn’t been able to save.
70. Do you know how to work your electrical box?
I can read a meter and reset a tripped switch. I ain’t fiddling with anything else!
71. What temperature in your home is most comfortable to you?
Around 18 -20ºC is pleasant. Which is why my Mum isn’t too keen on staying with us as she thinks that is close to freezing.
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Date: 2015-08-10 12:27 pm (UTC)I keep seeing the Comet/Soft Scrub question met with a ? Comet is a gritty cleaning powder for sprinkling on a metal sink or a tub and rubbing with a cloth to get dirt or marks off. Soft scrub is this liquidy goopy white stuff with the grit mixed in that you squirt on stuff and do the same with. At least with the soft scrub, you don't have to breathe in the Comet powder. You probably have something like it in the UK but with different brand names.
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Date: 2015-08-10 12:37 pm (UTC)Oh thanks for the clarification on comet etc...mmm not sure we do have an equivalent powder, unless people still use Vim. I use Flash spray with bleach in the kitchen and Dettol spray in the bathroom but neither are abrasive.
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Date: 2015-08-10 06:24 pm (UTC)It is so pleasing to read people who keep house roughly like I do (grudgingly, with a sense of proportion). Wish I had a housekeeper though!
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Date: 2015-08-11 07:32 pm (UTC)I mean, the colour of your favourite bible - implying there MUST be more than one in the house?? - whether or not you have a weapon in the house and iced tea in the fridge... so telling. But best of all was the bread, like they don't know that white bread is actually WHEAT bread because it's made solely of wheat and wheat bread doesn't actually count as brown. LOL, sorry, I'm being a stereotypically pedantic and naggy German here, but that just cracked me up. Also, you can tell that I thought a lot about bread during my nine-month stay in the US.
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