January 16, 2025

16. How often do you eat out at restaurants or cafés?

I go out to lunch with girlfriends a few times a month, dinner usually once a month. K and I go out when we have a show (6-7 times per year,) sometimes when we go to get haircuts and when we are on vacation.

17. In Somerset (England), it is traditional on this day to enter the orchards and toast the trees with cider to encourage a fruitful season. Have you ever had alcoholic Somerset cider or Scrumpy?
18. Cary Grant was born today in 1904 (in Bristol England). Have you a favourite Cary Grant film?
19. How many pairs of socks do you own?
20. How do you keep your photographs? As physical copies or virtual copies on a device? Do you sort them into real/virtual albums?
21. Have you ever made pastry from scratch?
22. Are you a cat person or a dog person?
23. On this day in 1842 Charles Dickens arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, to start a tour of the US (he wrote about it in a travelogue: American Notes for General Circulation). Have you a favourite Dickens novel?
24. It’s the International Day of Education – what was your favourite class in school?
25. Are you making a conscious effort to keep fit this year? What activities are you doing?
26. Where is your favourite place in your home?
27. Have you ever been boating?
28. Most countries have at least one example of a long-running soap on TV. Do you watch soaps (have you in the past)?
29. It is thought that William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" was first performed in 1595. Have you ever seen a Shakespeare play on the stage?
30. Do you have houseplants?
31. The end of January – does it seem to have flown past? Have you enjoyed this month?