Thursday, March 13, 2008

Crazy Eights

Crazy Eights...


Lowa tagged me!


8 Things I'm Passionate About:

Rosie, her mothers day card to me read "I'm smiling because your my mother and laughing because there's nothing you can do about it" sweet child.
cats, mine first, then everybody elses.
horses, Robbie and Smokey first, then every horse in the world.
sea-kayaking, in Scotland of course.
Scotland, of course!
Permaculture
growing vegetables, actually gardening in general including cutting the grass
Quantum Savvy, see link in side bar

8 Things I Want To Do Before I Die:

go to Canada again, I have been once to visit friends.
go to the USA again, I have been once to visit friends.
go to Italy again, I have been once also to visit friends, note that I prefer to holiday in Scotland!!
get out of debt(not likely if I do the above three!)
enourage as many people as possible to grow some food even if its only lettuce in a pot on the windowsill.
win the lottery, ha, dream on. . .
own a horse, only likely if I win the lottery
get another dog, the kitties will not be happy . .

8 Things I Say Often:

No
Yes
aww, wee kitty
aww, nice horsey
fabulous
marvelous
tidy your room
thankyou

8 Books I've Read Recently:

currenty reading 'The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight', its great but now I feel like killing myself as theres no hope.
Squarefoot Gardening, Mathew Bartholomew. this is my veg growing bible!
Crow Stone, fiction by Jenni Mills, very good read.
Remind me again Why I Need a Man, fiction by Claudia Carroll, this is hysterical and I laughed most of the way through, related to a lot of it!
anything by David Eddings, have most of them on the bookshelf
anything by Stephen Donaldson, have most of them too.
anything science fiction/fantasy/horror , working my way round the local library!

8 Songs I Could Listen to Over and Over:(drifted into artists as I can't pick out favourites)

Mercy, by Duffy. can't actually believe I love something thats been number one in the UK charts for a month. me. modern music?
The Rising Sun, The Animals, an eternal classic.
Elvis
Doc and Merle Watson
Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz
The Beatles
7 cant think..
8 ditto...

8 Things That Attract Me to my Best Friends:

Their ability to put up with the smell of horse.
That they like cats.
They tend not to have small children( sorry Fiona!!)
they can cook better than me, not hard
they like to invite me to eat at theirs
kayakers automaticaly join friends list
running out of reasons, i dunno....
sometimes theres no reason you just like people!

then your meant to tag-------
8 People I Think Should Do Crazy Eights:

but I'm running out of time and have to go to work so I'd like you to decide to join in youself and leave a link in the comments if your doing one.

5 comments:

gfid said...

i do enjoy these theme meme things... we learn such a lot about our neighbors.

i love the 'things that make me like my friends one... "they can cook better than me"' and right after that, that they feed you. good food is one of the best glues for bonding friends.

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed reading this meme, Claire. Nice to know more about you. I can't promise just now, but will see, maybe I can fit it in to do this in the next few days. I'll let you know.

I'm glad you'd like to come visit in Canada again. I'd love that and hope to spend more time together this time around.

:o)

hesitant scribe said...

Lovely meme - and yup - I'll rise to the challenge! Forgive me if I steal your horsie ones! ;-

Kerri said...

I love reading your memes Claire. Your sense of humour always makes me chuckle :)
I'm not much for doing memes myself though (I'm boring).
We have a friend (Nancy) who, like you, hates to cook, so she loves to have other friends feed her and we all love to do it. Probably your friends love to feed you too :)
Our Nancy is 'The Cream Puff Queen' - she makes wonderful cream puffs and brings them to us all from time to time.

clairesgarden said...

Grannyfiddler, I just managed to make a pot of pasta, sometimes its just the whole effort of opening a packet. . . .
Alice, look forward to it, hopefully we'll have a grand walk with Reba!!
Lisa, brill!!
kerri, I try to repay 'food' with fresh veggies or a pot of flowers/cuttings.