A Blogging Challenge: 15 Random Facts About Me
I love the challenge Nancy set this week to share 15 random facts about ourselves. As Nancy says, “we are all about so much more than cancer”. And just like Nancy, I love learning new things about my online friends, so I do hope you will join in this challenge too.
1. I am addicted to reading thrillers and crime fiction. My favorite is Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels.
2. Related to #1 and a fact that mystifies my husband, I love watching true crime fiction and CSI shows on TV.
3. I always have the radio dial tuned to classical music.
4. I passed my driving test first time – a fact that really boosted my confidence in my teens.
5. I graduated in history from university.
6. I love grocery shopping and always visit supermarkets when I go abroad.
7. I hate housework, but I enjoy doing the laundry (I share this in common with Nancy).
8. I like to drink tea from my grandmother’s wedding china from the 1920s. Tea tastes so much better in china cups.
9. I love old book-stores and feel so sad they are dying off.
10. When I visit a new city, I like to seek out the places off the tourist track, and go where the locals go.
11. I love spending time in coffee-shops – not the Starbucks kind, but the old-fashioned ones with vintage china.
12. I enjoy cooking and am perfecting my baking skills.
13. When I was a little girl I wrote all the time and dreamed of being a writer when I grew up.
14. I like to go for long country walks.
15. Blue skies and sunshine make me happy; gray skies and rain don’t.
Thanks for setting this challenge Nancy. It was fun. Please do join in too!
This is a fun one! I am posting mine today.
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Marie, we have #13 and #14 in common.
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I’ll be looking forward to reading it 🙂
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I’ve been away from blogging for too long and now have a fun reason to get back into the swing of it. Thanks to you and to Nancy for that! How fun to learn random things about each other. Your love of grocery shopping made me smile. I too love to check out grocery stores in other cities. xo
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Yay Nancy – I’ve missed you in the blogosphere x
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Ah, thought you were supposed to tell us something we didn’t already know about you 😃
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Good one! I am expecting the same.
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I initially thought that too so I resisted doing it because i thought people know everything about me at this stage! But I still think there are things in there you may not have known about me 😉
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Fun! Loved learning more about you!
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This is so great and fun.Thanks Nancy and Marie!
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Hi Marie,
Thank you for joining in on this little challenge. It was fun to read your list. Dear hubby raves about the Jack Reacher books and now with your endorsement, I guess I’ll give them another try. I read the first one and didn’t get any further into them for some reason. I love those china cups, too, and have some of my grandmother’s, but I drink coffee out of mine, not tea. Something so special about drinking out of a fancy cup. I might just think of you whenever I do laundry now, Marie. lol!
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I’m going to try to post mine tonight. We’ll see if I can stay awake.
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I loved this post, Marie, and finding out more about you. Drinking tea from china sounds lovely.
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best way to drink tea Beth -)
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I did it! Loved reading your “15 Things” list, Marie (like you, I too make it a point to support my charming local bookshops and stay far away from those Big Box book warehouses!) I had fun creating my own list today at http://myheartsisters.org/2015/07/26/15-random-facts-about-me/
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love CSI too! I wonder what we would have written before cancer? I was at a wedding yesterday and we had tea in china cups and saucer.
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