Questions for 7 - 11 December

I've got very behind with these. The weather's been miserable when it's meant to be summer, everything's been cancelled, the probably 5% of the 10% no-vaxxers society are demonstrating and calling everyone else Nazis, friends have been abused by no-vaxxers to the extent they didn't want to go to work, and I'm so depressed and pissed off with life in general that I started looking at properties in places with better weather. Anyway.

7. What is something you are sceptical about?

Just who is fomenting all the upheavals in society (see above). The so-called freedom movement is clearly backed by Americans, going by the language - the shithead's government certainly backed the protests against the gun laws being tightened - yeah, morons, we don't have a constitution or a right to bear arms. I'm not sure why the current US would want to destabilise our society, so who's really backing all this viciousness and why?  Now there's one for you, all you conspiracy theorists!

8. What is an unusual item you or somebody you know owns?
I'm blanking on this. I suppose three Roman coins I picked up in Israel and had authenticated at the British museum.

9. Does it bother you if someone practically bathes in perfume?
Hell, yes! I sometimes used to feel very ill on the bus from strong perfume. Once I was sprayed in a department store before I could object and I spent all afternoon repeatedly trying to get the horrible smell off my wrist. Someone obviously liked the stuff though or they wouldn't sell it. It's very personal, depending on one's skin; what works for one person might not for another. I have some Dior that was horrible on a friend but nice on me; not that I wear perfume more than a handful of times a year.

10. Have you ever won a trophy for something?
Not as such, but several prizes or certificates for science, piano, or artwork.

11. What is your favourite yogurt topping?

Nothing! My favourite yogurt is plain Greek-style and I like it the way it is. Apparently you can buy yogurt toppings separately in the US and UK? Not here, but a lot of yogurt comes with added fruit on top which is too sweet for me.

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.