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/2026/06/15/sharing-my-world-15th-june-2026/

 

Here are this week’s questions:

Food prices are starting to rocket again here in the UK and the price of fresh tomatoes has made me glad we are growing our own this year!

 

1. What food item has gone up out of all proportion in your opinion over the last year?

Tomatoes according to hubby

 

2. When Covid hit in 2020, did you get caught without vital provisions, or were you able to buy what you needed when you needed it?

Yeah I suddenly found myself short of toilet paper but thankfully because my brother worked on the backdock of a large store he was able to put a large pack aside for me other then that all was good.

 

3.  What food item was popular when you were a child that no longer seems to be readily available now?

Would have to be the Triple Treat ice cream, I loved those

 

4.  Do you/your partner shop to a budget, do a big shop once a month and then small top ups or buy what you need as and when necessary?

I do a weekly shop and yeah I have a budget which is why I shop at both major supermarkets.

 

Gratitude:

 

Sunday Stealing

 

Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

This week's meme is inspired by Melanie at This Ain't New York. We're indulging in a little retail therapy. Tell us what you would pick up at each stop.

Shopping Day. What's on your shopping list from ....

1. Target or Walmart, or another superstore? 

Neither since I am in Australia

2. Dollar Tree or Dollar General, or pound stretcher/99p store?

Don’t have these stores but we do have the Reject Shop and Hot Bargain which we call the cheap shops, I like shopping at both of these.

3. Best Buy or any other electronics/appliance store?

Here the big 2 are Harvy Norman and The Good Guys and I prefer The Good Guys

4. Book/music store?

Book store I like wondering around them.

Bonus question! Where do you want to stop for lunch? 

I prefer to eat at home so would buy something like a pie or sausage roll or like yesterday I got a chicken and mayo roll from Henny Penny which is like KFC but nicer

 

Another Hodgepodge

 

 

Hi everyone, here is the latest hodgepodge

http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2026/02/hodgepodge-questions-volume-659.html

1. Summer's here!  In the northern hemisphere anyway. If you're in the southern hemisphere substitute winter for the word summer. What do you love most about summer? What's your biggest summer pet peeve? 

I love that we have lovely warm winter days, I don’t like it when it’s really cold.

2. What song always reminds you of summer? 

Summer of 69

3. What's something you remember about your childhood summers? Do you think kids today get to enjoy summer the way you did as a child? Elaborate. 

Just spending all day outside on the weekends, I’m not sure kids today have as much fun as we did.

4. We celebrate Fathers Day on June 21st. Do you favour your dad in looks or temperament? Tell us something about your dad. Or your husband as a dad. Or a son/son-in-law as a dad. Or your grandpa. 

Father’s Day is in September here, yes I have dad’s short temper but like my mum in how fast I get over things. My dad seemed to be able to fix anything.

5. Let's wrap up with a summer this or that-

• flip flops or sandals Thongs aka Flip Flops
• beach or pool Pool
• watermelon or peaches Watermelon
• shorts or sundress Shorts
• iced coffee or ice-cold lemonade Lemonade as in Sprite
• amusement park or water park

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

y

 

Friday Fill in on Sunday

 

Each Thursday Ellen of 15andmeowing and Lorianne of Four-Legged Furballs, provide Friendly Fill-in questions.

Here are this week’s questions:

1. Let's bring back regular baked Sunday lunches with all the family

 

2. doom scrolling is the new so-called answer to boredom

 

3. I appreciate that my local area there is not a great deal of crime

 

4. I can’t think of anything that is my least favorite part about where I live.

 

 

Tuesday 4

 

Welcome once again to  Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 

Here are this week's questions

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

What are the good points to living in your town? Could you interest us in moving there?

I live in a suburb of Lake Macquarie and don’t think of it as a town, I like living here as the crime rate is moderate it happens but I feel safe enough to wake up in the morning open the doors and leave them opened all day or closed but not locked during the day.

Are the things you need convenient to your home? (shopping, library, schools, entertainment?)

Yeah, I am only a 10-minute walk from the lake and shops as well as the primary school and the high school.

Did you choose your town, or did you just end up there? 

We live in public housing, and this is where we ended up way back in May 1988.

Is your town known for any special foods, activities, places or people? 

Nope can’t think of anything

 

 

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/2026/06/15/sharing-my-world-15th-june-2026/

Here are this week’s questions:

1.  When buying a new home appliance, are you offered optional insurance cover (for additional cost) and if so do you take

it?
Here is Australia we get offered an extended warranty and sometimes Tim & I have taken it but generally not.

2.  When purchasing something for the home, like a new TV, freezer, cooker, carpets, etc, do you pay outright or take terms?

Now days we pay outright, when we were younger we would get it on an interest free loan, which we always paid off within the interest free term.

3.  What is the worst purchase for the home you can remember?

I have no idea, Tim would say the solar panels but I don’t agree.

4.  For your family room/lounge, do you prefer couches, easy chairs, recliners or a mixture of seating arrangements.

I prefer a recliner Tim prefers a lounge or what some call a couch.

Gratitude: Courtesy of Cheryl this week.

 

A slow hodgepodge

 

Hi everyone, here is the latest hodgepodge

http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2026/02/hodgepodge-questions-volume-658.html

1 June 17th, 1994 was the day of the infamous O.J. Simpson car chase. What were you doing in 1994? I'm guessing somebody is going to tell me they weren't born yet but that's part of the fun of the Hodgepodge. Lots of generations are represented here. 

What was I doing back in 1994, I have no idea, nothing special I was just mum looking after 3 daughters, I do remember seeing the car chase on the telly.

2. What's your favorite summer salad that isn't the traditional tossed green lettuce kind of salad? Do you like fresh fruit in a salad (other than in a fruit salad of course)?

I am not a fan of salads, but I do really like fruit salad

3. Is chivalry dead? Should it be? 

No not dead but dying, should it be I don’t think so

4. Would you rather spend a week of your summer vacation in Hawaii or Alaska? Have you ever been to either? Are they two places you really would like to see? How do you feel about 'Hawaiian pizza' aka pineapple on a pizza? Have you ever eaten Baked Alaska? 

I have been to Hawaii and I would like to go to Alaska but doubt I will ever get there, I love pineapple on my pizza, I think it is strange not liking it.

5. World Cup play is happening now...are you interested? Watching any matches? Did you or your children play soccer/futbol? There are eleven US cities hosting matches-

-Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York with the stadium in NJ, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle along with  three cities in Mexico (Guadalajara, Mexico City and Monterrey) and two in Canada (Toronto and Vancouver)-

You get free tickets to one of these matches. Which city do you choose? Tell us why. 

Nope not interested

I would choose going to Canada

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Try to embrace the stillness in the morning, before the day starts and the world is holding its breath, slowly the light drifts in and the day starts.