The lovely Dawn from Doing it For Ourselves has nominated me for Liebester. Here's what she put:
11 Questions for Kev
- Your favourite time of year
- Your least favourite vegetable
- What trends did you follow as a teenager
- Favourite radio station
- What DIY do you dislike
- What were you doing when Elvis died
- Favourite time of day
- What is the naughtiest thing you did as a child
- What Celebrity would you invite to Sunday lunch
- What did you have for breakfast
- Were would you like to be in 10 years.
1. My Favourite time of year? There are so many! I guess I love the long summer evenings and wearing shorts for months on end.
2. Celery. I fail to see the point in adding it to anything!
3. Well I was (read - still am) a bit of geek. Imagine a less cool (and less funny) version of the Inbetweeners and you'll be somewhere near. I did used to like model making and I spent a lot of time on a tractor or with stock on the farm, not sure if I ever fell into a trend though. I probably wasn't cool enough to be in a trend!
4. Favourite radio station - Just lately I've been listening to Radio 6 and really enjoying it, it makes me remember why I used to be into my music!
5. DIY I dislike? Anything to do with plumbing! I hate doing it (although I always do it rather than getting a plumber in) and I always worry about it leaking!
6. When Elvis died I wasn't even a glint in my fathers eye! I was born some 6 years later!
7. My favourite time of day is evenings. I'm a night owl so I love reading the girls a story and then seeing what jobs I can get done.
8. Naughtiest thing as a child? I was fairly well behaved as a child (or so I think). I even rang mum and dad and asked them - the only thing they can remember was hiding some kittens from them, so my brother and I could play with them. They meowed and gave us away! We did get fleas though so I guess the cat had the last laugh!
9. Celebrity to lunch? I'm not into celebrities really so I think I'd have to go for someone like Ray Mears so I could ask him question after question!
10. Breakfast? Muesli I was trying to be quick.
11. 10 years from now I'd like to still be here, surrounded by my family, with no mortgage if I had a choice in the matter!
And 11 random things about me:
1. I converted an old ambulance and drove it all around Europe with my wife.
2. I don't like lending my tools to anyone.
3. I didn't have a next door neighbour until I was 24.
4. I love driving a transit van and even if I won the lottery I think I'd still have one.
5. I don't like any team sports.
6. I've planted over 500 trees here in the last two and a half years
7. The first time I went abroad without my parents I was 19 and I went for 3 months backpacking.
8. I've gone coast to coast across America by greyhound bus.
9. I talk too much at times.
10. I hate the taste of tea so much I won't even kiss my wife if she's had some.
11. I was head boy of my school.
I won't forward these questions on as I'm not sure who has done this and who hasn't but I might steal Julees Grays idea and ask everyone a question -
What book changed you the most?
For me it was when I read the River Cottage Cookbook and decided that was the way forward. Everything changed from then on!
Celery hater here to lol, Hubby is the same with plumbing and it makes him swear a lot. I love the idea of traveling round a country by bus. Good answers x
ReplyDeleteThe travels around Europe were great. It was in that tiny van that I thought if she could put up with me there then she could put up with me anywhere!
DeleteThe book that changed me the most, if I can remember the exact title (funny you think I would remember it!), was ,Steven Wheelers', 'Food in season, year-round'.
ReplyDeleteWhich made me realise that during my childhood, apart from the occasional orange or banana we ate food in season, only bought frozen if we'd got nothing fresh and were going to use it more or less straight away (no fridge!). So it was straight into the garden I had at the time and saw what was already there and planned what to plant. It wasn't much of a success, I have improved a bit since! It 'set the seed of thought' so to speak.
A catalyst that changed your way of thinking and made it all click.
DeleteSelf Sufficiency - John and Sally Seymour. If any book inspired me to want to leave the rat race and live on a smallholding. It was this book.
ReplyDeleteMy wife said I should ban that book from the list! I remember taking it on my first holiday with my now wife and reading it the whole time. She knew what she was getting herself into!
DeleteSomeone stole my copy; I haven't been the same since.
DeleteThe book that changed me most - Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries 1.
ReplyDeleteI read it over the course of a weekend and it made me relax into food. Be able to snap off something growing and tip it into a pan with a knob of butter a sprinkle of nuts and make myself something edible to tumble into pasta. See even thinking about his writing makes me a better writer. :-)
I love your answers to the questions, it's always nice to find out a little bit more about a fellow Blogger.
I've not read any of Nigel Slaters but everyone says how good they are. I'll have to look out for them at car boot sales.
DeleteGreat answers Kev, so you were a bit of an adventure traveller, no wonder you want Ray Mears to Dinner, hubby is an R&M fan.
ReplyDeleteThe book for me was John Seymour book The Fat Of The Land and his follow on book On My Own Terms, quickly followed by Elizabeth West books Hovel In The Hills, Garden In The Hills and Kitchen In The Hills I still have them all and often like to re-read them, it was like a light bulb moment suddenly it was there in a book how I wanted to live my life, there was very little about at the time regarding Self Suffeiency you were looked upon as a hippy a tree hugger. Now more and more people are taking an intrest its great.
I used to love travel but it's all cooled off a bit since having children! I'll add those books to my list to look out for as well! (or maybe Christmas list if I haven't found them by then!
DeleteYAY! Another tea hater...the smell alone makes me retch.
ReplyDeleteThe book that changed me?Not sure it changed me, but made me re think what a hero was. "Shake Hands With The Devil" by General Romeo Dallaire.He's a hero.
Jane x
I hate coffee as well! I've never drank a full cup of either!
DeleteI'm with you 10000% on the celery and the tea. Celery is the greatest crime ever perpetrated on human culinary habits, it is rather like eating a Scotchbrite pad. And tea tastes like medicine to me.
ReplyDeleteI remember picking it out of my mums curries as a child and leaving it on the side of my plate - not something I did very often I can tell you!
Deletedeffo with you on the tea, I have not been able to stand the smell for 40yrs since I was pregnant. The book that I think defined me was a cookery book by Elizabeth Davies, I was 9yrs old.
ReplyDeleteMy wife got put off tea for a short time while she was pregnant but went back to it unfortunately!
Delete'The Permaculture Home Garden ' by Linda Woodrow.I go back to it so much that it is starting to fall apart.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to look that one up as well - I haven't got any books purely on permaculture.
DeleteKev,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your comment. Didn't realize you were English, so some of my response is not really germane to your situation. Still might enjoy that book, though.
Yep - I'm very English! I'll look the book up though and maybe get it through the library.
DeleteTo kill a mocking bird
ReplyDeleteI was 11 and suddenly learnt about racism
I've never read it. I went through a period a few years ago reading classics but that wasn't on my list. I must give it a read.
DeletePs kev.....where's your novelty veg photo?
ReplyDeleteI've been too busy! I had full intentions to but time slipped away! That's the trouble when I'm back at work - no time for the fun things!
DeleteGreat post! So nice to get to know you better Kev.
ReplyDeleteGosh I don't have one favourite book as such. I have many on my bookshelf that I refer to often. Ones like Back to Basics, the Permaculture Home Garden, Choosing Eden, Self Sufficiency - John Seymour, Practical Self Sufficiency, Basic Country Skills, Forgotten Skills of Self Sufficiency, Back yard Self Sufficiency - Jackie French., Living the Good Life - Linda Cockburn. I have just purchased the River Cottage book and haven't read too much yet, but I am enjoying Hugh's show on TV at the moment :) I do a lot of reading on the internet and watch clips on youtube these days, that is where I learn new things.
The book that changed me the most was the big C T Onions edited Oxford Etymological dictionary; I still read it today, when I have time. Odd eh?
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