My Hodgepodge

 

Hi everyone, here is the latest hodgepodge

http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2026/08/hodgepodge-questions-volume-677.html

1. What most recently gave you goose bumps? 

I can’t think of anything

2. What does Halloween look like in your home and/or neighbourhood these days? Do you participate? 

No I am not interested in Halloween, not an Aussie thing

3. Pumpkin, sunflower, sesame, poppy, chia...your favorite seed on the list? What's something you like to make/eat that calls for one of these seeds in the recipe? 

Sesame seeds but only on bread rolls

4. What's the most (or one of the most) 'fall photos' you've ever taken? Share it here. Just one. 

Sorry don’t have one to share

5. Somehow, we're rolling in to November next week. If your October were a chapter in a book, what would the title of this chapter be? 

Finding my legs uncooperative

6. Insert your own random thought here.

“The words we offer to those closest to us are the daily soil in which they grow; we can either nourish their roots with belief or starve them with neglect. Our voice has the power to quiet their loudest doubts and remind them of who they truly are. Speak to them with the kind of grace that gives them permission to bloom.” -Unknown

 

 

Sharing my world

 

Hi everyone I am taking part in sharing my world again here are this week’s questions and answers, which I found here:

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2026/10/26/share-your-world-26th-october-2026/

 

Here are this week’s questions:

 

1.  If you were a child’s toy, what would you be?
A walking talking doll

 

2.  If you had to design/dress a shop window, what would be your theme?
Family time watching TV without looking at a device in their hand

 

3.  Have you ever done a bungee or parachute jump?
No bloody way and never will

 

4.  Would you like to work in a zoo, circus, or veterinary practice?

No I like animals but no

 

Gratitude:
This one is courtesy of Dawn Miller. Thanks Dawn.

 

Tuesday's four on Thursday

 

Welcome once again to  Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 

Welcome back to another Tuesday 4 in honour of Toni Taddeo it's founder.

Here are this week's questions

Over 12,000 books, many once required reading in schools and including children's books have been banned.  Even Jane Eyre finds itself under scrutiny.

 

1.Do you think any book or series has helped form your view on things. life, love, etc?

Many will say the Bible but how about more secular books that you feel have taught or influenced you?

I can’t think of any and I have read a lot of books during my life

2. What is your favorite book or book series and why is it  a favorite?

As a child it was the Trixie Beldon books as an adult I can’t think of a favourite, at the moment I am listening to the Matilda series by Jackie French and I am enjoying them.

3. If your favorite book or book series was being cast for a TV/Movie series, who would play the main characters?

No idea, but whoever it would mostly likely wouldn’t be right

4.  Are there any books you have read many times?

Yeah I have read many of the Spenser books by Robert Parker over and over as well as many of the books by Dick Francis

 

Sharing my world

 

Hi everyone I am taking part in sharing my world again here are this week’s questions and answers, which I found here:

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/share-your-world-19th-october-2026/

 

 

Here are this week’s questions:

1.  Do you wear glasses, contacts, bi-focals, none
I wear reading glasses but only the cheap ones from a bargain shop.

 

2.  What made you laugh last week?
No one thing comes to mind, a blog post, something said when with Sue.

 

3.  What is your favourite flower?
Pink carnations

 

4.  What annoys you………. misbehaving children, people, traffic, pets, decor in the house, anything else?

Parents who do nothing about misbehaving children

People who are very judgmental

Bible bashers

 

 

Gratitude: Courtesy of Helen from October 2025

 

Just a bit of hodgepodge

 

Hi everyone, here is the latest hodgepodge

http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2026/08/hodgepodge-questions-volume-676.html

1. This week's Hodgepodge lands on 'Back To The Future Day'. October 21, 2015 was the date the movie characters (Marty McFly, Doc, and Jennifer Parker) travelled to in the future in the 1989 film Back To The Future Part 2. 

Did you see the movie? Tell us a something about what was happening in your life in the fall of 2015.

Yes I saw all the movies more than once, let me think 2015 was a long ass time ago but what I remember it was the year Sam started at Wiripaang school and I first noticed the tremor in a finger.

2. Which -ber month is your favorite? (September, October, November, December). Explain why. 

November because it’s my birth month

3. Red, yellow, orange, bronze...your favorite fall colour to wear? To eat? To see in nature? 

Red for clothes or maybe yellow like both when it comes to food yellow for bananas, I like bananas

4. What do you miss most about being 20? 

Being thinner and having a body that doesn’t cause pain

5. We're roughly three quarters of the way through the year. What's one goal, habit, or mindset you want to purposely carry into the final weeks of the year? Elaborate. 

Positivity I feel having a positive outlook helps us deal with life

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Go into your week with a hopeful and faith-filled attitude by intentionally replacing negative speech and thinking patterns with uplifting words that fill you and those around you with life and feed your spirit. 

 

Sharing my world

 

Hi everyone I am taking part in sharing my world again here are this week’s questions and answers, which I found here:

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/share-your-world-12th-october-2026/

Here are this week’s questions:

 

1.  What is your favourite season?

It’s a toss-up between Autumn and Spring

 

2.  Would you like to live by the seaside or in the country?

This is a tossup between my first thought was the seaside but, in the country, also sounds good as long as I have my family around and close by.

 

3.  When was the last time you used the bus?

It’s been so long I can’t remember

 

4.  If you took a walk, would it be in the woods, to the shops, walk the dog, to a park, or somewhere else?

 

I use loved to take long bush walks

 

Gratitude:
Courtesy of Vanda this week.

 

Hodgepodge Here and There

 

Hi everyone, here is the latest hodgepodge

http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2026/08/hodgepodge-questions-volume-675.html

1. Do you think you're driven more by curiosity or comfort? Explain. 

My first thought was I’m driven by car………lol

But of course, that’s not what you meant so the other answer would be a mix of both.

2. What non-food item is in your refrigerator or freezer? 

Ice packs, Tim uses them when he packs his lunch

3. Are you comfortable with silence? If you're home alone, do you like silence or do you need regular background noise? Do you seek out times and places to be silent? What's your favorite place to find silence/be silent? 

I am generally comfortable with silence and often sit in silence first thing in the morning.

4. Carpentry, electrical, plumbing, landscaping...which skill would you most like to possess and how would you put that skill to use today?

I really can’t decide manly because none of those appeal to me in any way.

5. Do you lean more towards being too needy or too independent? Which do you find harder to deal with in others? 

I feel that I come across too needy due to having Parkinson’s maybe this is because I find needly people annoying.

6.  Insert your own random thought here. 

True strength isn't found in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. Every time you fall, you become stronger, wiser, and closer to your goals.