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October 1, 2025
Oct. 1st, 2025 08:33 amOCTOBER
1. It’s National Cookbook Month – do you own many cookbooks, or do you rely on the internet for recipe ideas?
I own A LOT of cookbooks. I would say close to 100. I use them (of course I have my favorites,) but also ATK's sites and the NY Times cooking site as well. I have favorite recipes, but like trying new things, so am constantly perusing.
2. Have you ever made chilli (with meat or vegetarian)? Even if you haven’t, what do you like to have alongside chilli as part of the meal?
3. Do you have well-organised kitchen storage?
4. In 1957, Russia launched their Sputnik satellite. Do you receive your TV or broadband via a satellite, through cable, or via an aerial?
5. What’s the temperature today where you live? Is it warmer or cooler than average?
6. Jenny Lind, the Swedish opera singer (the Swedish Nightingale), was born today in 1820. Operatic arias are often used in advertisements (e.g. the airline company British Airways used an adaptation of the "Flower Duet" from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes), do you recall any ads using opera arias?
7. Do you often wear scarves? Draped around your neck or tied artistically?
8. If you didn’t have access to a car, could you get around easily where you live?
9. Did you ever have one of those ‘magic’ painting books where you used water on the paper to bring out the colours when you were small?
10. It’s World Porridge (oatmeal) Day! Are you a fan?
11. Do you own/use a food processor or blender?
12. Do you like doing puzzles (crosswords, wordle, sudoku or something else)? Do you do something that tests your brain every day?
13. Are there things you ate as a child that you would never eat now?
14. It’s Ada Lovelace Day - daughter of the poet Lord Byron, she worked with Charles Babbage to create the ‘Analytical Engine’. This is considered to be the first computer and she is considered the first computer programmer. Have you ever learned any computer code such as html to create programs?
15. Have you ever owned a leather coat or jacket? Do you still have it?
16. Do you own many things that need to be recharged rather than having a battery you change when it’s stopped working?
17. Have you ever bought something via the Internet and regretted it?
18. The definition of an antique is something that is 100 years old – do you own anything that old?
19. Are you wearing any finger rings today?
20. When was the last time it rained where you live? Has it been drier than normal for this time of year?
21. Do you own a wine rack? What do you keep in it?
22. What size is the smallest decorative ornament in your home?
23. How do you dry your laundry? Indoors, outside or in a drier?
24. Do you own a calculator, or do you rely on your mental arithmetic skills?
25. Have you ever had surgery?
26. Do you have a go-to ‘comfort’ novel you will return to again and again? Or do you prefer reading new fiction instead? Do you often reread books?
27. What is your favourite thing to walk on with bare feet or do you hate walking barefoot?
28. The American costume designer Edith Head was born today in 1879. She won eight Oscars for her work, and her last one was for her work on Paul Newman/Robert Redford’s film The Sting. Have you seen it?
29. What kind of toothbrush do you own?
30. Can you click your fingers (and are you doing it now – LOL)?
31. Do you have a favourite aroma you love (a perfume, something baking, a flower etc)?
1. It’s National Cookbook Month – do you own many cookbooks, or do you rely on the internet for recipe ideas?
I own A LOT of cookbooks. I would say close to 100. I use them (of course I have my favorites,) but also ATK's sites and the NY Times cooking site as well. I have favorite recipes, but like trying new things, so am constantly perusing.
2. Have you ever made chilli (with meat or vegetarian)? Even if you haven’t, what do you like to have alongside chilli as part of the meal?
3. Do you have well-organised kitchen storage?
4. In 1957, Russia launched their Sputnik satellite. Do you receive your TV or broadband via a satellite, through cable, or via an aerial?
5. What’s the temperature today where you live? Is it warmer or cooler than average?
6. Jenny Lind, the Swedish opera singer (the Swedish Nightingale), was born today in 1820. Operatic arias are often used in advertisements (e.g. the airline company British Airways used an adaptation of the "Flower Duet" from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes), do you recall any ads using opera arias?
7. Do you often wear scarves? Draped around your neck or tied artistically?
8. If you didn’t have access to a car, could you get around easily where you live?
9. Did you ever have one of those ‘magic’ painting books where you used water on the paper to bring out the colours when you were small?
10. It’s World Porridge (oatmeal) Day! Are you a fan?
11. Do you own/use a food processor or blender?
12. Do you like doing puzzles (crosswords, wordle, sudoku or something else)? Do you do something that tests your brain every day?
13. Are there things you ate as a child that you would never eat now?
14. It’s Ada Lovelace Day - daughter of the poet Lord Byron, she worked with Charles Babbage to create the ‘Analytical Engine’. This is considered to be the first computer and she is considered the first computer programmer. Have you ever learned any computer code such as html to create programs?
15. Have you ever owned a leather coat or jacket? Do you still have it?
16. Do you own many things that need to be recharged rather than having a battery you change when it’s stopped working?
17. Have you ever bought something via the Internet and regretted it?
18. The definition of an antique is something that is 100 years old – do you own anything that old?
19. Are you wearing any finger rings today?
20. When was the last time it rained where you live? Has it been drier than normal for this time of year?
21. Do you own a wine rack? What do you keep in it?
22. What size is the smallest decorative ornament in your home?
23. How do you dry your laundry? Indoors, outside or in a drier?
24. Do you own a calculator, or do you rely on your mental arithmetic skills?
25. Have you ever had surgery?
26. Do you have a go-to ‘comfort’ novel you will return to again and again? Or do you prefer reading new fiction instead? Do you often reread books?
27. What is your favourite thing to walk on with bare feet or do you hate walking barefoot?
28. The American costume designer Edith Head was born today in 1879. She won eight Oscars for her work, and her last one was for her work on Paul Newman/Robert Redford’s film The Sting. Have you seen it?
29. What kind of toothbrush do you own?
30. Can you click your fingers (and are you doing it now – LOL)?
31. Do you have a favourite aroma you love (a perfume, something baking, a flower etc)?
