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Which person in your family do you look most like?

TheBeesKneesGirl’s Profile PhotoEffy
I apparently look uncannily like both my parents! Here I am with my dad and granddad.
Do you spot the reference on my t shirt, incidentally? :)
Which person in your family do you look most like
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What is your favorite children's story?

TheBeesKneesGirl’s Profile PhotoEffy
I've never been able to identify this story but I've borne it in mind since I first heard/read it as a child.
There was a wealthy prince who had everything he could possibly want, and one day a poor shepherd boy walked past the palace playing a tune on a flute, which was the most beautiful tune the prince had ever heard.
The prince was enraged that a mere peasant could have a thing of such beauty and craved it for himself. So, being a prince, he simply grabbed the flute from the boy.
But when he came to play it, no sound came out, because he was punished for his greed & cruelty.
This is the outline of the story I heard but I don't know where it came from so if anyone can help I'd be overjoyed!
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Would you rather buy a new game or an extension pack for a game you already have?

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I don't play games but I do always re-read and re-watch things as it deepens the understanding and solidifies it in the memory. I also like going back to places I've already visited, rather than gadding round doing any old thing and taking none of it in.
So I vote for extension, I suppose!
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What's the last book you read?

TheBeesKneesGirl’s Profile PhotoEffy
Really terrific book which was a famed work of fiction in the 14th century.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/dec/16/poetry.simonarmitage
Apparently, the book is set very near where I live, and if you read the original out loud in a Potteries accent it actually makes sense to people who live here despite being written in Middle English, and not only that but a dialect much further removed from Standard English of today than Chaucer.
I only saw the Simon Armitage translation and it was fascinating, not as an account of what King Arthur and Sir Gawain did (it's unlikely the existed in anything like the form storytellers centuries later portrayed them). And this is the place where the 14th-century poet is believed to have placed the green knight's lair!
Whats the last book you read

What do you have to lose if you just go for it?

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I appreciate the sentiment but having been unemployed for two years in my twenties, I have a hell of a lot to lose if I just go for it, and that's why I put up with such utter shit in my job.
The reason I support a universal basic income is I think most people don't dare to live out their dreams and they should be able to. Given a safety net people will bounce higher on the trampoline, or whatever the analogy is. So I do hope things change for the better in that way, and that's one of the reasons I'm a staunch Andrew Yang supporter.
https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-ubi/
But I will myself be more cautious probably for the whole of my life.
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What are you grateful for today?

TheBeesKneesGirl’s Profile PhotoEffy
Had a great trip up here!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/apr/17/kinder-scout-mass-trespass-anniversary
There was a superb TV show called The Village which was on in 2013-14, which was intended to show the life of a very old man called Bert Middleton, who lived for more than 100 years. It starts when Bert is 12, just before World War 1 (in which his brother is executed for 'cowardice', when in fact we now know he had PTSD).
So it was an excellent, gritty showing of Bert's early life but then sadly the programme was cancelled after 2 seasons leaving it totally in the air, I suppose because all the philistines would rather watch some shit like Love Island.
Anyway, there were three great reasons to come here; the TV show, the trespass history (shown in the TV programme where Bert's father is knocked unconscious by a gamekeeper), and climbing Kinder Scout which I failed to do the last time I tried, in 2014, but have made good now, so I'm grateful for that!

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If you could have anything you want for dinner tonight, what would you have?

TheBeesKneesGirl’s Profile PhotoEffy
I've already eaten (we are an hour in front so it's 8pm).
I had chilli & garlic bread, followed by sticky toffee pudding & ice cream, nice!
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? Do you have, or have access to, a garden? Are you “green fingered” (i.e. good at gardening)? ? If you don’t have a garden, how close is your nearest green space?

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
I'm afraid gardening is a thing that passed me by.

I persuaded my parents to get apple and pear trees but they don;t fruit very much, I like harvesting a wile apple or blackberry but I've never been green-fingered as others are.
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What was your first paying job?

TheBeesKneesGirl’s Profile PhotoEffy
Working in a warehouse to fund my nights out during my first year of university.
I would load CDs and DVDs in a box and send them out to record shops. That really dates me, doesn't it!?
The first thing I did for money was to load 80 singles of I Believe In A Thing Called Love by The Darkness (Does anyone listen to them nowadays? I hope not because they're completely shit) and send it on its way.
Only good thing about that time is I discovered Girls Aloud through the radio they used to play. But I wouldn't admit to liking them if I hadn't been drinking :)
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