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Questions for 13 - 15 December
And here's another lot.
13. What colour were your bedroom walls painted or wallpapered when you were a teenager?
Ah. That was a sore point. Most of my bedrooms were very plain, probably vanilla/magnolia/whatever, but...
The stucco house we lived in for three years when I was at high school was well known for being pink, my father's failed attempt at a Spanish look. My sister and I shared a room, and we came home from school one day to find it had been wallpapered without any warning: pink gold-speckled wallpaper on three walls and ballerinas on the fourth, an obscenity my mother had perpetrated (via a decorator). I demanded the right to choose the curtains and picked bright-lime-green-and-black swirly abstract ones. To my mother's credit, she kept to the agreement. They were pretty in-your-face and very much anti-pink-monstrosity. Ha!
14. What is your favourite pastime for each of the four seasons?
Reading all year round! OK, summer: reading outside in a hammock, autumn: driving up the valley to see all the autumn colours at the lakes, winter: crisp, brisk walks, spring: just reading.
Spring is horrible here, cold, wet, windy, and it hangs on well into summer while inland, people have actual summer. The constant rain and grey is really getting me down.
15. Were you voted for a superlative in high school?
It took me a while to figure this one out. Best [insert noun] or most likely to [insert verb] that I think they have in US yearbooks? That's not a thing here, and neither are yearbooks. Well, they weren't when I was at school, but a friend told me her kids' primary school does the US everyone-gets-a-prize thing, so who knows what it's like these days.
13. What colour were your bedroom walls painted or wallpapered when you were a teenager?
Ah. That was a sore point. Most of my bedrooms were very plain, probably vanilla/magnolia/whatever, but...
The stucco house we lived in for three years when I was at high school was well known for being pink, my father's failed attempt at a Spanish look. My sister and I shared a room, and we came home from school one day to find it had been wallpapered without any warning: pink gold-speckled wallpaper on three walls and ballerinas on the fourth, an obscenity my mother had perpetrated (via a decorator). I demanded the right to choose the curtains and picked bright-lime-green-and-black swirly abstract ones. To my mother's credit, she kept to the agreement. They were pretty in-your-face and very much anti-pink-monstrosity. Ha!
14. What is your favourite pastime for each of the four seasons?
Reading all year round! OK, summer: reading outside in a hammock, autumn: driving up the valley to see all the autumn colours at the lakes, winter: crisp, brisk walks, spring: just reading.
Spring is horrible here, cold, wet, windy, and it hangs on well into summer while inland, people have actual summer. The constant rain and grey is really getting me down.
15. Were you voted for a superlative in high school?
It took me a while to figure this one out. Best [insert noun] or most likely to [insert verb] that I think they have in US yearbooks? That's not a thing here, and neither are yearbooks. Well, they weren't when I was at school, but a friend told me her kids' primary school does the US everyone-gets-a-prize thing, so who knows what it's like these days.
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