draliman on life

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When food shopping, do you prefer to shop online or in person?
I prefer not to have to do it at all.

Do you take/stick to a shopping list?
I do use a shopping list, but don’t always keep to it. I don’t go crazy or anything, but sometimes I see something I forgot on the list, or something that looks like a nice treat!

Do you shop around or are you store loyal for convenience?
For shopping week to week, I use the one single shop in the village, so shopping around isn’t really an option unless I want to drive somewhere, and if I did that any money saved on the shopping would be spent on petrol.

I also do a “big shop” once every 6-8 weeks or so. That mainly consists of stuff I can’t get in the little village shop plus stuff which is cheaper and can be bulk-bought like canned goods, toilet rolls, cleaning supplies and such. I always use the same shop for that. This shop is online and delivered.

Roughly how long does it take you to do a weekly shop?
That’s the one I do in person in the village shop. About 3 minutes walk there and back and about 4 minutes in the shop so about 10 minutes 🙂

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What is your favourite dessert?
Choclate gateau. Black Forest gateau. Other sorts of gateau. Ice cream of nearly any flavour. Ice cream-based desserts. Chocolate eclairs, profiteroles and choux buns. Cheesecake. Eton Mess.

Desserts are my favourite dessert, really.

Do you still use cash to pay for goods?
I do at the once-a-month village market as mostly they don’t take cards. Apart from that I use cards and occasionally my phone.

Apart from a house, car or holiday, what is the most expensive thing you’ve purchased?
Probably various computers. I tend to buy something around mid-range – the one I’m typing this on is a Microsoft Surface, mid-range at just under £1000.

If you are going out for a special occasion, what is your favoured outfit?
It depends where this “special occasion” is taking place. If I can get away with jeans, trainers and jumper I will. Otherwise I have various things up through the “smart scale” all the way up to a suit.

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Do you prefer a duvet, quilt or sheets and blankets on your bed?
Definitely a duvet. I hate being all squished in under sheets which are tucked in. Whenever I’m anywhere with sheets, the first thing I do is untuck them.

Despite much Googling, a duvet may or may not be the same as, or similar to, a “comforter” in the US. Though I’m afraid whenever someone says they use a “comforter”, the following image always pops into my head…

Do you sleep with one or two pillows?
There are two pillows but side-by-side, so technically I suppose the answer is one. Two pillows are too high, your neck ends up at a silly angle.

Do you prefer a single, double, or kingsize bed?
I don’t know about “prefer” – I have a double bed. Which, according to “the Google” is roughly the same size as a “full” bed in the US.

In the winter, do you have a hot water bottle or an electric blanket?
A hot water bottle, but I don’t take it to bed with me.

Fun question: have you ever slept in a hammock?
No. It looks fun to try, though I expect I would fall out and break something I need. Like my legs.

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When you were a child, did you have your friends round for tea even if it wasn’t your birthday? Were you invited to stay to tea at a friend’s house?
Yes, everybody did that back then. Over to a friend’s, play on the computer or race around on our bikes, fishfingers and baked beans for tea, then back home 🙂

What was your first job in adult life?
I had a summer job at the County Council in their computer department between finishing school and starting university. That was back when computers took up most of a room and had big machines with tapes spinning in, like you see in old films on the telly 🙂

Do you enjoy shopping (food, clothes, gifts etc)
Nope, not at all. Surgical strike – straight to the goods, pay, get out.

What was the best bargain you ever got?
In all my life? Let me think dearie ooh there that one time 1974 I think it was or 1975 that there sweet shop was doin’ them penny chews at a ha’ppeny each if you can believe that ha’penny each my word you don’t get that these days don’t know what the world’s coming to 300 quid for a loaf of bread it’s disgusting I blame the government gibber gibber mumble…

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Do you remember your first teacher at school?
No! I remember one or two teachers from Primary School but not my very first one from Infants School. I was only little!

What was your best and worst subjects?
English (language) and Physics went well, maths and Latin not so much.

Were you encouraged in class or did you just muddle along?
Some teachers encouraged, some didn’t. You’ll always get a range from “exciting enthusiast” to “nasty asshole”.

Would you like to be a student today?
I would at university – that was great fun – but not back at school, no way no how. Being completely under someone’s control again, being told what to do and what not to do? No thanks 😮