Answers to questions

[louiselux]

cygny's questions:


1. Who do you consider your hero/role model?
Oh god, tough question. I don't know, to be honest. I tend to model my behaviour on certain of my friends and family who I love and admire. I try and be a good person for my own self-respect. My current boss has a wonderful, incisive mind that can see to the heart of a problem and calculate what needs to be done to solve it. I admire that very much. But I also admire writers who are brave and expose themselves on the page, and I admire people who tell the truth, when it needs to be told, even if it makes them unpopular. I admire people who can be single-minded and disciplined enough to follow their dreams. One of my friends has a seemingly unlimited capacity for generosity and kindness and that, in its own way, is as huge an achievement as anything I can think of.


2. Which 'trivial' luxury item (not meaning big things like computer, hot water, etc...) do you feel you could not live without?
The concealer that hides the dark circles under my eyes. Without it I look a bit like Bela Lugosi as Dracula, freshly arisen from my coffin bed.


3. If you have a pet, what's his/her name? If you don't, what would you name a pet if you had one? And why? (this is more like three questions, but hey, humour me :D I don't have a pet, but long to have a cat. I love the birds in my garden though and a cat would scare them away.  If I had a cat I'd be tempted to call it Percy, after an amazing cat I once knew, now dead. But that might feel a bit odd to me, so I'd call it Boris instead.


4. What's your favourite day of the week?
Ah, oh, um… Friday. It must be, because you have the anticipation of the weekend to come and its all still ahead of you. On the flip side, Sunday is the most depressing day, even though it's a day off, because Sunday is the day I have to organis my life for the coming week.


5. What was your favourite holiday?
A car trip around France about 10 years ago. We went for a month, slept on beaches and in fields and saw an amazing, beautiful country. I saw so many sunsets and sunrises, beaches, mountains, cities. Got bitten to death by mosquitoes too. We slept for a few nights under the Eiffel tower and it was lovely to lie looking up at its lights in my sleeping bag, listening to the night sounds of policemen shouting at hippies. We met strange Paris street people who took me under their wing and showed me how to dodge the police (I was selling bangles to tourists from a rug in Les Halles at the time). St Tropez was fun too and I with busked with a man from Marseilles on my treble recorder while he played drums. I was absolutely rubbish but he was good, so we made some money! But my last holiday in my brother's cottage in Staithes was as wonderful in its own way. We spent a lot of time walking on the cliffs and on the beach, just doing whatever we wanted. I tend to *really* enjoy holidays as they've been quite rare over the past 5 or so years.

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[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I've never been to Belgium - I only know it as the birthplace of Jaques Brel and Rene Magritte. And we learnt about the Flems and the Walloons in history. And of course I love the strong Belgian beer that the monks make!

Actually, lots of reasons to go to Belgium;-)