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Know More About Your Elves #3 - Sundew

  • 11-03-2019 6:57pm
    #1
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,343 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Apologies for the delay manic day in work.

    But here we are the 3rd KYE.

    The evenings are getting brighter and the first bank holiday weekend is upon us.

    This week Sundew takes the reigns so let’s nit waste anymore time and get going.

    Favourite movie of all time?

    Favourite play to holiday?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Whoop! Whoop! There is a grand stretch in the evening alright!
    Folks juggling a bit of family stuff at the mo, so if you see me logged on I’m often not necessarily anywhere near the iPad. Will try and get around to answering the questions when I get a spare mo....usually during school hours ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Loughc wrote: »

    Favourite movie of all time?

    Favourite play to holiday?

    Favorite film - “ Life is Beautiful” also love Les Miserables ( film version) and Dances with Wolves

    Favorite place to holiday is Port de Soller in Mallorca. We have stayed there 5 times and heading out in Oct....can’t wait!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,953 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Hiya Sundew! Lovely username btw.

    Have you ever gone birdwatching?

    Do you have any favourite garden plants?

    Thanks :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,177 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Favourite cheeesy song?

    Guilty pleasure?


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,956 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    What’s your favourite hobby? And is there any hobby or skill that you’d like to take up/learn, like an instrument etc?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,245 ✭✭✭jellybear


    Favourite chocolate bar?
    First album you bought?

    :)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Sundew wrote: »
    Favorite film - “ Life is Beautiful”
    Fantastic choice of favourite film. A real masterpiece.

    Will return with questions soon. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    Hiya Sundew! Lovely username btw.

    Have you ever gone birdwatching?

    Do you have any favourite garden plants?

    Thanks :)

    Yes I have gone birdwatching ( wouldn’t be a serious birder....I’m lucky that I can just about name some common garden visitors !) but mainly am content to watch them visit my bird feeders. Love watching the goldfinches having a right go at each over whose turn it is to get the niger seed :D

    Love my garden and have lots of favorite plants. I do love daffodils this time of the year especially the minature ones! I adore fushia and also honesty. I have a huge load of it growing under trees. Adore the silver seed heads in Winter! Ragged robin and borage are also in my garden!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Caranica wrote: »
    Favourite cheeesy song?

    Guilty pleasure?

    It’s gotta be the Pina Colada song!

    Had a laughing fit the first time I actually listened to the lyrics, driving down the M50 in my then boyfriends car and have loved it ever since ssshhhh don’t tell anyone!



    Guilty pleasure....probably The Pina Colada song :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Toots wrote: »
    What’s your favourite hobby? And is there any hobby or skill that you’d like to take up/learn, like an instrument etc?

    I do like my gardening and also love writing pen pal letters.I am also a member of Postcrossing. ( terribly geeky I know). Have recently rediscovered lego again and collect the Christmas sets! Would really love to master a language and am considering taking up Spanish classes. My little one is currently doing Spanish classes at the weekend and is teaching me stuff already.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    jellybear wrote: »
    Favourite chocolate bar?
    First album you bought?

    :)

    Fry,s Chocolate Cream....god it is delish!

    First album......was The SoupDragons “ Lovegod” I only bought it for the song “ I’m free” which I loved and played on a continuous loop for months :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Posy wrote: »
    Fantastic choice of favourite film. A real masterpiece.

    Will return with questions soon. :pac:

    It’s a great film...moves me every time I watch it, and has such a wonderful ending! The little boy being lifted in to the US army tank at the end is one of my favorite scenes!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,953 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    :D

    Soooo, do you like pina coladas? Getting caught in the rain? ....are you into yoga?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Hi Sundew !

    Are you a tea or coffee person ?

    Where would you choose to live if you won the Euromilliions ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    What did you want to be when you 'grew up' and how to close to achieving it did you get?

    Favourite day of the year (Non christmas related)?
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Lots of good questions so far!

    One person in the world you would most like to meet and why?

    Favourite place in Ireland to visit?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭Jude13


    Apple or android?

    Out with close friends, dolled up or dress down?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    :D

    Soooo, do you like pina coladas? Getting caught in the rain? ....are you into yoga?

    :D:D:D

    Apart from yoga anything goes....I love the taste of coconut and am partial to a nice Pina Colada when on hols in the sun. Doesn’t quite taste the same here!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    DvB wrote: »
    What did you want to be when you 'grew up' and how to close to achieving it did you get?

    Favourite day of the year (Non christmas related)?

    Wanted to be a Montessori teacher....ended up working for a well know semi- state company for over 15 years doing nothing in relation to teaching, but many work colleagues did need to be “ minded” ;)

    Favourite of the year.....believe it or not but I used to like Good Friday especially when living in the big smoke. There was always something rather chilled out about it, with the pubs closed and you could always explore Dublin knowing the scobies were inside in their houses drinking away, whilst you could see Dublin in a different light.

    My favourite day of the year or should I say “night” would be the 23rd June “ Bonfire Night” or St. John’s Night which was celebrated in the rural community where I grew up. I remember sharing a house with a Spanish girl years ago and she was astonished that we celebrated the night in some parts of Ireland! ‘Twas big in her neck of the woods!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    TRS30 wrote: »
    Lots of good questions so far!

    One person in the world you would most like to meet and why?

    Favourite place in Ireland to visit?

    Have to say I would like to meet George Bush Jr. Politics aside I think you would have absoutely great craic spending a day with him!

    My favourite place to visit in Ireland is Glendalough. I have spent quite a few weekends there and it’s glorious to walk around there when all the tourists have gone!
    Also love Kilkenny City!
    otnomart wrote: »
    Hi Sundew !


    Are you a tea or coffee person ?

    Where would you choose to live if you won the Euromilliions ?

    Definitely a coffee person!

    If I won the Euromillions, I would love to live in Mallorca or buy myself a nice gaff overlooking the sea near Dun Laoghaire :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Jude13 wrote: »
    Apple or android?

    Out with close friends, dolled up or dress down?

    Have an Android but have owned an apple before getting rid!
    When I’m out I dress down...I have never been able to wear heels....life is too short to suffer! Jeans and a top are my staple wardrobe :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,557 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Five Star Michelin posh dining or Christmas Dinner , which would you choose ? :D

    Real or fake Christmas Tree ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,191 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    What is your favourite day of the week and why?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    Five Star Michelin posh dining or Christmas Dinner , which would you choose ? :D

    Real or fake Christmas Tree ?

    Christmas Dinner wins out all the time!

    Real or fake....now this is something that has changed for me. I grew up with a real tree. My family wouldn’t entertain the idea of a fake tree and I was the same. Always loved the ritual of buying the tree and stuffing it in to our small car......and the scent divine!
    However, after leaving home and house sharing I ended up surprising my house mates with a small fake tree bought in Argos. That tree whilst not great quality, followed me all around Dublin from house share to house share before I eventually bought my own apartment and I grew quite attached to it.
    Even though I still love real trees, it wasn’t convenient to drag a real tree in to an apartment block so donated the old bedraggled tree to the Local charity shop and bought myself a much better quality one in B&Q....still have it nearly 15 years late but I think I’m due an upgrade!

    Mam of 4 was this supposed to be just a yes or no question? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭Jude13


    Mulled wine or cider?

    A sweat treat or savory treat?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    What is your favourite day of the week and why?

    Think it has to be Saturday...lie in and no school runs for 2 days. Yay!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Jude13 wrote: »
    Mulled wine or cider?

    A sweat treat or savory treat?

    Mulled wine for sure! :D
    Have a terrible sweet tooth so sweet treats all the way!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Who do you admire the most? Past or present?

    What 4 people (alive or dead) would you like as the ultimate dinner party guests?
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    DvB wrote: »
    Who do you admire the most? Past or present?

    What 4 people (alive or dead) would you like as the ultimate dinner party guests?

    Santa Claus :p
    I’m a huge admirer of Christina Noble...think she is is just amazing!

    4 people as dinner guests...have to think about that one....will come back to you later!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    God there was so many to choose from but I whittled it down to these:
    George Bush Jr, Michael Collins, Britney Spears and Princess Diana.
    I’d love to be a fly on the wall for that one :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,557 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Sundew , no , it wasn't meant to be a yes or no question , love detailed answers :D

    A long walk along the shore or a walk down main street window shopping ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    Sundew , no , it wasn't meant to be a yes or no question , love detailed answers :D

    A long walk along the shore or a walk down main street window shopping ?

    Ha! Ha! I don’t half go on sometimes....you should have seen my Santa letters when I was a kid! :D

    Love my window shopping although I don’t get the chance to do as much of it anymore, and I also love going for a walk along the seashore especially on a blustery day!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,557 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Sundew wrote: »
    Ha! Ha! I don’t half go on sometimes....you should have seen my Santa letters when I was a kid! :D

    Love my window shopping although I don’t get the chance to do as much of it anymore, and I also love going for a walk along the seashore especially on a blustery day!

    I was thinking after I had asked the question , that both walks are ideal , at different times , so , sorry for the bad question !

    And I think we all (well , I used to ! ) wrote essay like letters to Santa :D

    Thank for answering :)


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,343 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Favourite Banks Holiday?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Favourite book?

    Favourite author?

    Favourite childhood book? :)


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  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,956 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    With the weekend that has just gone, have you ever had a Shamrock Shake, and if so, what did you think of it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Finally catching up here after a few days!
    Loughc wrote: »
    Favourite Banks Holiday?

    To be honest I dont really have a favourite but you if I had to choose it would be the Easter bank holiday, as my birthday every now and again coincides with that weekend! In my previous job it also meant 2 four day weeks, and was a great time to apply for holidays!
    I do like August as it’s the last hurrah before the end of Summer and there is always some good festivals on around the country to check out!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Toots wrote: »
    With the weekend that has just gone, have you ever had a Shamrock Shake, and if so, what did you think of it?

    Believe it or not but I’ve never had a shamrock shake! Must try one out but might have to wait until 2020 to do so!
    Toots would it be worth the wait?:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Posy wrote: »
    Favourite book?

    Favourite author?

    Favourite childhood book? :)

    Favourite book...think it would have to be Jane Eyre as I have read it about 5 times starting when I was 12. I’ m also a big travel book fan and pour over them before I head away on hols. Love rough guides and the DK ones...nothing better then flicking through a DK travel guide on a cold Winters evening!

    Favourite author....Roald Dahl. Currently re-reading all my old books to my little one!

    Favourite childhood book....it’s a toss up between two. Love “The Secret Garden” by Frances H Burnett. It was the first book my Nana gave me when I was about 8 and I adored it. The other one would be Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,956 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Sundew wrote: »
    Believe it or not but I’ve never had a shamrock shake! Must try one out but might have to wait until 2020 to do so!
    Toots would it be worth the wait?:)

    I quite like them, and so does my hubby, so I’d say if you get the chance, do try one! Unfortunately I’ve noticed in recent years that a lot of the McDonalds aren’t doing them, despite having a sign up saying they are :(

    Actually, on that note, what’s your favourite milkshake?


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