Trivia Tuesday: A to Z of things you didn't know about me:)

Apples – "lived" in an apple bin when little (!!!)  and love eating stewed apples with crumble

Bananas – no thanks, NOT EVER, never never never . .  . not even banana cake

Cats – cute and cuddle and o’ so sweet

Dobermans – love their owners, eat the neighbours (have owned/own 6 Dobermans)

Edges  - I have a height phobia so never go close to edges or ledges!!

Fitness –  what is fitness, too l a z y . . . I just walk very quickly to the car

Giggles – my brothers use to make me giggle at dinner (when we had visitors) and I would get into trouble (they didn't)

Hills – I am surrounded by hills and I love looking at them (don’t climb them, see F)

Illness – had German Measles as a child and almost died and still have no immunity to the disease

Jo – named after my grandmother Johanna, meaning “a gift from God” which I was after my oldest sister died from cot death at 4 months

Knitting – I have knitted 1 jumper and 2 scarves in my life time . . . that’s plenty don’t you think.

Laughter – good for one’s health- best done with friends

Mowed lawns – the best smell in the world, reminds me of my childhood

Nuts – love eating cashew nuts or making chocolate brownies with macadamia nuts

Olga – this is the name I wanted to call a  daughter, I was ten at the time ( No longer on my top ten favourite names!)

Pink –pink clothes, pink doona, pink throw rug, pink phone cover, pink sticky notes, I love pink

Quiet – I love the sound of silence

Rain – rain at night, what a wonderful comforting sound

Spelling – hopeless, spell check is my bestest friend

Ugg boots – wear these in winter to keep the toes warm

Vegetables – like (peas, carrots, sweet potato, beans) don’t like (parsnips, turnips) sort of (brussels sprouts)

War and Peace – read this when I was 16, great book, need plenty of time and patience

X-ray – only had one in my life to see why my spine is problematic

Yellow – looks terrible on me, makes me look ill (had to wear a canary yellow dress as an uniform once – looked ill for a year!)

Zzzzzz – nothing nicer that a sleep in on a cold winters morning