Some hodgepodge

Hi everyone, here is the latest hodgepodge http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2026/11/oh-my-stars-its-hodgepodge.html

 

1. Marilyn texted me something that inspired this question, so thank you Marilyn! Of the following sayings, typically associated with the (American) southern way of speaking, which do you most relate to right now? Explain. 

Bless your heart~too big for yer britches~ madder than a wet hen~you're preachin' to the choir~ knee high to a grasshopper~oh my stars

Since I am an Aussie and the only one I have heard of is “knee high to a grasshopper” I will skip this one

2. The Hodgepodge lands on (US) Veterans Day this year. Are you a veteran? Have a family member who's a veteran? If you answered yes, tell us something about them. Will you do anything to mark the day in some special way? 

Nope not a veteran, and no one in my family either. The only way I mark the day is the silence at 11am.

3. Is breakfast for dinner a stroke of genius or a sign of total household collapse? Is breakfast for dinner a regular thing your house? Are all family members on board? 

Nope we don’t do breakfast for dinner but if someone wants to they can.

4. How do you see the world?

Things maybe bad but things can improve there has been bad times before and things improved. 

5. And this week's gratitude question-what's something about your surroundings (home, neighborhood, city) you're grateful for? 

I am grateful that I have family around me and that I live in an area that I am able to have the doors wide open without concern

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Gratitude is the quiet joy of the heart, turning ordinary moments into miracles.

The more you express gratitude for the little things, the same more you’ll realize that nothing is truly little.

Gratitude is the compass that guides us back to what truly matters in life.

When you practice gratitude, you open your heart to abundance in every form.

Gratitude transforms chaos into clarity, scarcity into sufficiency, and pain into peace.

The moment you are grateful for what you have, the universe gives you more to be grateful for.

Gratitude is the soul’s reminder that we are already complete, as we are.”

 

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 we're inspired by Blogography. More than 20 years ago, he stole this meme from Neil, his blogging buddy. Alas, Neil's blog no longer exists, so that's where the trail goes cold.

 

Another Sunday, Another Meme

1. Do you have a business card?

Nope no business cards but that times I thought it would be cool to have some to hand out.

2. What day of the week were you born?

Either Tuesday or Thursday

3. What vegetable do you refuse to eat?   

Cauliflower, I have traumatic memories of being forced to eat it as a child.

4. How many times have you stayed overnight in the hospital?

Just overnight, I can’t remember ever staying just overnight been admitted a few times like when I had my gallbladder out.

5. Do you have more piercings or tattoos?   

Yes I have my ears pierced and I have 5 tattoos

7. How much cash is in your wallet right now?   

Less then $20

 

8. Let's play MASH:    Do you live in a mansion, apartment, shack, or house?   

I guess I would say house as in a townhouse

9. Where are you in the family birth order (oldest, middle child, youngest, or only child)?

I am the oldest

10. When you were 5 years old, what did you call your parents? 

Mum was always mum or mummy but dad was for some unknown reason called “bay “ by me

 

November Hodgepodge

 

Hi everyone, here is the latest hodgepodge

http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2026/08/hodgepodge-questions-volume-678.html

1. Our November Hodgepodges always include a question related to gratitude. What is one small thing you're grateful for today? 

Not having go out with a uncooperative body

2. Chrysanthemums-pansies-burning bush-ornamental cabbage-camellias...your favorite in an autumn garden? Would we find any of these in your yard/garden this year? 

I have no garden

3. If you could clear out or organize one physical space or mental habit before the year ends, what would it be?

Had to think about this one for a while, my mind is often surrounded by fog so I think if I could find a way to remove the fog that would be good.

4. Brussel sprouts...love 'em or no thank you? If you said love 'em how do you like them prepared? 

I do not like them

5. It's reassuring to know that____________________. 

I have support of my family

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Remember that some days it will be hard to think positive and to do positive things when this happens walk outside take a seat and look up at the sky and remember that is enough.

 

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/2026/11/02/share-your-world-2nd-november-2026/

 

Here are this week’s questions:

1.  Do you drive, and can you remember your first car?

I know how to drive but had my licence cancelled 9yrs ago due to being considered medical unfit to drive. I have never owned a car but the first car Tim and I had was a ForEscort Panel Van

 

2.  Have you ever ice skated?
Nope

 

3.  What was your favourite sport at school?
None I don’t like sport, runs in the family the dislike of sport

 

4.  What was the last movie you saw at the cinema?

Damn I have no idea, but it would have been around 25yrs back

 

Gratitude:

 

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