Showing posts with label Patriotic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patriotic. Show all posts

Friday, 15 August 2014

The British Tag!


Today is turning out to be somewhat of a slow day, so I thought I'd break it up a bit by catching up on some tags. I was actually tagged in this one about a month ago by Amy at That Hypermobile Girl and it looked like a lot of fun. I've only found myself with free time recently, so here I go!

1) How many cups of tea do you drink in the day? And how many sugars?

I love tea, for me it is the drink of the Gods. My tea drinking habits vary. I like one in the morning and one in the evening, and if I'm home, one at some point during the day (normally afternoon). I've been known to drink 5 cups in one day if given the opportunity, but I have to have at least one. As for sugars, my ideal mix is one sugar and one sweetener with a generous amount of milk. I'm looking back at this paragraph and realising I've managed to write a paragraph about tea. I think I need professional help.

2) Favourite part of your roast?

Okay this is going to be difficult. For me, a roast is not right without gravy. The more, the better. Therefore it would probably be that, but I love the potatoes and Yorkshire puddings too!

3) Favourite dunking biscuit?

Hands down bourbons. I'm not too fussy though, I like chocolate digestives, cookies, malted milks, rich teas, etc. As long as it's a biscuit I'll probably dunk and enjoy.

4) Favourite quintessentially British past-time?

I would say probably going to the Theatre, especially if it's to watch Shakespeare. Is that quintessentially British enough?

5) Favourite word?

Tricky, but probably 'Shenanigans'. It just makes me smile every time I hear it, I have no idea why. It's why I have it as one of my weekly posts!

6) What would your pub be called?

I have absolutely no idea! Probably 'The Southern Star' because it's a play on the Northern Star, my surname is Southern and I like stars!

7) Cockney rhyming slang?

Oh I know a few of these but not many. Apple and Pears is Stairs, Dog and Bone is phone, and one of my favourites is saying "I'm absolutely Frank Marvin'" which is the same as saying I'm starving! Also, a Cup of Rosie Lee is Tea which is very British!

8) Number one British Person?

Oh now this is tough. I'll immediately discount all politicians. The Royal Family, as patriotic as I am, are not exactly top of my list either. I'm a huge fan of a lot of British Actors and Actresses, and a lot of people will probably expect me to put Tom Hiddleston here. However, I have always said that Stephen Fry is just the very definition of British for me, and I absolutely adore him. He wins hands down.

9) Favourite shop/restaurant?

I actually did a post on my favourite restaurant yesterday, in which I wrote about a lovely Indian Restaurant called 'Little Raj' in my home town. As for shops, I love walking into little stores but I don't particularly have one that I visit often. It would probably be Waterstones, because of all the books!

10) One British Pop Song that pops into your head?

Space Oddity - David Bowie.

11) Marmite?

Keep that vile stuff away from me.

My Tags:
Joy from Joy's Book Blog
Vicky from Books, Biscuits And Tea
Zara from Page 394
Saira from Growing Wings

Saturday, 14 June 2014

Daily Shenanigans, 14/06/2014: World Cup!

Well today has been pretty laid back for me. I've made a lot of progress with 'A Game Of Thrones' and I fully expect to have a review for it up at some point tomorrow! That makes up mostly what I've been doing today, reading. I slept in pretty late this morning, and I had a few chores to do. Mat finished work a lot earlier than usual and came straight round afterwards so I spent a lot of the afternoon and evening with him! Originally we were going to go to the Cinema, but instead we decided to stay in and watch another episode of 'Game Of Thrones'. Actually now, come to think of it, my entire day has pretty much consisted of the TV Series/Book. Not that I'm complaining!

Currently, I'm watching the England Vs. Italy match with my sister on TV. I'm not a football fan really but I'm very patriotic and so don't mind watching the World Cup! Tomorrow is Father's Day so we're having a curry (yum!) and then I'm going round Mat's in the afternoon to stay over, seeing as he has the day off! As I said I'll hopefully have a review up tomorrow, as well as my Weekly Wishlist. I feel like my blog has been lacking a little recently in posts (other than my daily entry) so it's time I got productive!