draliman on life

It’s “me” time again here on the old blog, with Cee’s Share Your World series.

What is your favourite colour?
Blue, violet-blue, that sort of colour. This sort of colour, which was in my garden during the summer.

I love this one, whatever it is. Such a lovely colour!

In what do you find the simplest of joys?
I quite like sitting near water when it’s warm as sunny, preferably with no-one else around. Maybe here, at Tintagel.

Or here, at Golitha Falls.

Would you prefer a reading nook or an art, craft, photography studio?
I don’t need any of these things! As a singleton, I can read or do crafts and whatnot anywhere I like :-). If I had to choose though, I would go for a reading nook, whatever that is.

What is at least one of your favourite quotes?
There are so many great quotes out there that I can’t remember any of them.

Since it’s quite topical, here’s a conversation snippet from one of my favourite comedies, Blackadder Goes Forth, which was set in the First World War. A sad commentary on the inadvisability of using a deterrent to keep the peace (the nuclear deterrent today?).

Captain Blackadder: You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war two great super-armies developed. Us, the Russians and the French on one side, Germany and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea being that each army would act as the other’s deterrent. That way, there could never be a war.
Private Baldrick: Except, this is sort of a war, isn’t it?
Captain Blackadder: That’s right. There was one tiny flaw in the plan.
Lieutenant George: O, what was that?
Captain Blackadder: It was bollocks.