Know More About Your Elves - #8 DvB

Favourite meal?

First Car?

Tea or Coffee?

CheerLouth wrote: »

Favourite meal?

First Car?

Tea or Coffee?

Meal = Lamb vindaloo with peas pilau rice & a garlic onion & coriander naan on the side. yum!

Car = 1.1L ford fiesta, back in 1992, had it for about 2 years before buying the only car I ever bought brand new, a 1.4L Honda Civic.
The fiesta had no power steering and was pretty basic & when I look back it was such a poor drive, but I loved it at the time!!

Tea/ Coffee = Depends on the time of day, early on I'd be lost without coffee, usually having 2 or 3 or sometimes 4 before lunch, but I love my tea too, generally only drinking it after my dinner in the evening now, which is probably my favourite hot beverage of the day.

Loughc wrote: »

Favourite holiday location?

Favourite Bank Holiday?

Favourite Sport?

Holiday.

Have a few, Tenerife being the current favourite for a family sun european break. Been 3 times in the last 5 years. Love the canaries in general for sun holidays, Lanzarote is another spot we love as a family. Further afield, I loved San Diego & San Francisco & would love to go back some day.

Bank Holiday.
Other than Christmas I love the October b/h weekend. We always go away as a family for the long weekend down the country, kilkenny, wexford & waterford being the last 3, this year we're heading to clonakilty. We see it as the last hurrah before the christmas as it breaks up the run from the end of summer through to christmas.

Sport.
As a fan Football is really my favourite and am a huge Shamrock Rovers fan. I also love Rugby (Leinster) & American football (Cowboys) but my favourite sport to participate in was Hockey, only stopping playing due to a bad knee injury which left me gutted.
I still help coach my kids Gaelic Football & Hurling teams & that fills the 'playing' void these days.

otnomart wrote: »

Hi DvB !

Here mine:

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Who are your heroes in real life?

What are your favorite names?

"It is what it is" is one I find myself using a bit, and the ironic thing is I hate that phrase. I reckon I have loads but I suspect others would spot them quicker than I would.

Heroes is a tough one, I tend to admire people I know rather than people we see through the media or news or such like. Top of the list would be my wife, and I mean that, she is an absolute legend and I have huge admiration for her and all that she does, she's a true hero on my eyes. I see her with the kids and know they have the best mum 2 kids could ever have.
My dad would be another, he taught me to be the best I could be growing up and set me a fantastic example... hes a true gent and sticks by his principles even when it would be far easier to go with the flow. I hope I can be half the man he is given the hardships he's endured.

Names, dont really have favourites, but I love my 2 kids names, our girl we agreed on quickly as it had a meaning for both myself and my wife, our boy took a tad longer but it so suits him I cant imagine him as anything else, if that makes sense. Dont want to name them here but they top the list.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

What is your favorite colour?

What is your favorite shop?

What is your favorite fast food?

What is your favorite drink?

Colour = green
Fast food = eddie rockets burgers with sweet potato fries
Shop = penneys or diffneys for clothes, b&q is the one I could easily spend most in though.
Drink = non alcoholic would be coffee or tea, alcoholic would be Guinness and in the summer months IPA and pale ales.

TRS30 wrote: »

Four famous people (dead or alive) to have dinner with and why?

As my other stable holiday question is gone........Favourite way to relax?

Favourite way to relax is usually with a beer out in the back garden on a sunny day. That or curled up watching a good movie or TV show with a nice cup of tea.

4 guests alive or dead... that's a great one and I've thought about when done of the other elves were asked and came up with a different answer each time, this time i'll go for the world of entertainment though I could have a different 4 for sport, history and politics... anyway, Jim Morrison would be first, I'm a big fan of the doors and would love to have had a chance to listen to his tales of excess, Billy Connolly I'd have too to provide us with with a few jokes, Irvine Welsh as I'm a huge fan of his books and would love the chance to discuss his writing with him and lastly I'll go for paloma faith as I love her quirky sense of style and her music and she has strong opinions on a lot of subjects that I'd feel strongly about myself and would love to hear her talk about them in a small group setting.

Not the most exciting or inspired choice for many but I reckon they'd leave me both entertained and open minded... I suspect a few nice bottles of vino would be quaffed at it too 😂

TRS30 wrote: »

Agree, happily watch any of those.

Lads, it could be 5 times as long, I kid you not.
Back in the days when I had time to myself (seems like an age ago now ) I was a movie nut & watched as many as I could.

Loughc wrote: »

I only had this conversation yesterday I used to be a MASSIVE movie buff, there was nothing more than I used to love was load up on movies and watch away for the night.

Nowadays I'm so busy than I don't know if I could risk watching something for 2 hours that may or may not be any good.

Getting serious doppleganger vibes here this could be me word for word.

Anyway, keep the questions coming guys, am enjoying this.

Hiya DvB,
Do food do you crave the most?
What was your favourite childhood book?
What’s your favourite Christmas movie?
Thanks!

If you had a day to yourself, no obligations, could do anything you wanted, how would you spend it?

TRS30 wrote: »

I'm sure you just missed this one

Oops! I did indeed.

Not gonna lie, dont have one. Theres one or 2 things I'd love to see happen in my lifetime but all are out of my control to one extent or another (most sport related). Theres a few places I'd like to visit and I'd love to conquer my fears and learn to swim, other than that I'm happy as long as me and those I care about are happy and healthy.

DvB wrote: »

Sleep. Well I'd have a lie in anyway. We get up at 5.45am mon-fri and at about 7-7.30 at weekends so a rest would be bliss. I'd have to have a think about the rest so I'll come back to this.

Was out with herself last night & this question came into my head & I remembered saying I'd have to have dancing in there, I love a good bop & rarely get the chance nowadays, but a really good party with some cracking tunes & I'll be bopping away. Nothing cheers me up more than a bit of a dance at a party/wedding etc.

Caranica wrote: »

Who would play you in a movie of your life?

Ideal new years eve?

Childhood crush?

Movie = Gerard Butler, In all honesty I look nothing like him but my Mrs says he reminds her of me, so that'll do!

NYE = Night out, plenty of music in a good spot, not too rammed, plenty of dancing!

Childhood crush = Had loads, but the ones that I remember clearly were Madonna in her true blue/papa dont preach days & Linda carter as wonder woman.

Mam of 4 wrote: »

What's your favorite childhood memory of Christmas ?

Have so many its hard to pick one. But I think the year I got a bike as a surprise i'll always remember clearly. Even though I was young (9 or 10) I knew my mum & dad were really struggling financially at the time & really wasn't expecting too much for christmas, so seeing their delight at my shocked & awed face will live with me until the day I die. It was a pure moment of christmas bliss, a child receiving a fantastic surprise gift & the joy it gave the parents giving the gift.

To this day I have no idea how they afforded some of the Christmas's we had, they always made sure it was as special as possible & still to this day go OTT with the gifts even though they cant really afford to.

Jude13 wrote: »

Late to the party.

After seeing the fiesta/civic Q what would be your dream car?

P.s. also fecked my knee playing hockey early on so knocked it on the head to keep playing grass rather than astro sports.

Dream Car, this is an easy one, Always loved Aston Martins, think they look so stylish & sleek without having all the silly angles of flashier cars & the sound they make is just delicious! So Aston Martin DB11 or Vanquish.

Played Hockey for 15 years & loved it, wasn't the same after I did my ACL though as I never really was the same despite doing everything I could to build myeslf back up. Did the cruciates again when at 32 & decided that was that. Managed to play at a decent level & would have loved to have seen what could have been without the injury but in reality I doubt I'd have gotten much more out of the game. Agree re: astrosports, even 6 a sides with my mates became a no no as my knee would be screaming at me for days after everytime I partook.