New Lockdown Special Edition: Ask the Person Below You a Question!

I will ring my friend to see if she needs anything from anywhere as she is isolating while caring for her adult daughter who is positive with Covid and poorly with it.

Do you make your own soup?

Yes I make my own soup, courgette and tarragon is a particular favourite. Scotch broth last week.

If you had the ability to have chosen a different career what would it have been? (I told my mum when I was young I would like to be a ballerina or an air hostess. She told me I had to get a proper job, hence I became a nurse and midwife.)

After watching the Nun Story I wanted to become a nun!

Are you still eating mince pies?

Amaryllis (and I'd never share my toothbrush)

What's your best talent?

Oh good grief! I refreshed the page twice to be sure!

No mince pies left.

What's your best talent?

Gardening!

Do you have a best friend?

My Husband is my best friend.

Have you had a call for the vaccine?

No

Have you taken down your Christmas tree?

Didn't have one this year.

will you accept vaccine if offered?

Yes

Do you read your horoscope daily?

O, we don’t often get a paper as it is a long walk to the newsagent and no delivery. If we get Sunday papers I always read my horoscope.

Are you like your star sign ?

Yes of course - Aquarius (of course!) But it's a load of tosh! ?

What happened to that new star sign they were trying to insert?

That was just a pie in the sky !!

I was an avid reader of novels, but now lose concentration easily. Do you read a lot ?

Lizzie I remember reading that there was once a thirteenth star sign Arachnia the spider.

crazyH speaking of reading- I was once an avid reader, but no longer, I'm afraid.
I'm disgusted with myself to be frank.

Q: what is your best physical feature?
(no false modesty please!)

I think my eyes but have always had compliments about my curly hair.

Do you read a newspaper?

Yes, sometimes, but not regularly. I like local newspapers, or now and then, The Times.

Do you use fake tan?

I have done in the past because I am really, really pale. But it stinks on me!
I haven't done for years now. I embrace my pastiness.

Who was your very first best friend?

Marion Lambourne, lived in Norbury in the 1950s. I was quite jealous when a new girl moved nearby and shared her friendship!

What is you cheer up lockdown t.v. programme?

A. Sorry, no favourite lockdown tv programme - don't watch much - so hand that Q to the next person to answer

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Q. Did you have your own pet as a child?

Coronation Street but it is sadly a shadow of its former self.

I did have a pet. A cat. Sadly, he died. Well, he would have been 93 now!

Have you tried non-alcoholic gin?

Toomany sadlys!

Not sure I have got the hang off this thread but I will try.

Q. What was the first film you saw at the cinema.

South Pacific. I thought it was just wonderful!

What was the last film you went to the cinema to watch?

WW1 in colour. I went with DD. It was very moving.

How far do you have to travel to the cinema? (17 miles for me)