Thread: What do you like ?

Originally Posted by Alekto

hello hello!
You are people after my own heart! enjoying life and what it gives them, and bearly giving much thought about whatever is not so good....

My first loves are my Pirate (Neevie), and my husband - the order depends on how badly they behave. My 4 sisters, though they are far.
I also love reading, anything sci-fy and fantasy.
Lately I love gardening, we moved into this house we're in just under 2 years ago, because we lived in a flat and I had been starved of gardening for too long - yesterday I spent my day digging from 10AM till 4PM (ended up with a bit of a red nose actually, although it wasn't so sunny) - any flowers or vegetables a bit funny looking I'll want to grow them - doesn't mean I'm any good at it, last year the only thing I managed to harvest was a teacup full of tiny unripened tomatoes, in october. This year I have good hope, I have 3 kinds of funny looking French pumpkins (I'm french, though I have been in the UK for 17 years now - every time I go to France to visit my family I bring back some funny seeds), 3 types of tomatoes, one purple, and two Ukrainian ones (my husband is Ukrainian) - French provence peas, and a whole lot of different sorts of Ukrainian radishes. OK don't get me started on gardening... not normally the best topic to talk about to keep people awake.
I don't have children - don't want any, although I love my nieces and nephew I'm really happy to leave the responsibility of raising them to my sisters.
I also tend to feed anything that comes through my garden - we have a least weasle coming to visit from time to time, I put some of Neevie's dry food on the window to see if it will eat them - didn't so far. I names him Basil-the-Weasle. I have to name my 4 legged visitors, it's a tradition. I had a hedgehog last year called Samson-le-Herisson (herisson = hedgehog in french)
I love going to visit our Ukrainian family in the summer - they also have a big garden I can "roll around in the mud" in... It's usually warm in the summer there, about 30 to 38 degrees celcius in general, and really good soil, so pretty much anything grows! the house is near a river where we go swimming.... just ideal back-to-basics kind of life, lovely.
I also love cooking, but then the cleaning after is daunting so I just don't do it so often. I love mess... my husband doesn't....
mmm gardening, cooking, reading... I'm only 42 so I'll add kick boxing and dancing - which I do like, even though it doesn't really reach the level of "love".

Another reader, and of the fiction kind to ! that is so reassuring ! lol Oh Alekto how I envy you ! You love gardening, i really really would love to be able to find gardening as exciting as you do. I have a garden, well its supposed to be one !! lol And you are so adventurous with your growing, and veggies that I have never heard of it must be exciting to see what your seeds are going to grow up to be ! So if you are ever at a loose end my garden is at your disposal !! lol I dont know anything about soil but it does grow weeds very well !!! lol Dont dismiss this offer after all I know you go to the Ukraine to do gardens !! lol

So you are a european family, french and ukrainian how wonderful, so how did you meet hubby ? I have to say I have never visited either country but would love you to tell me more. Your parent in laws sound as if they have a wonderful home how lucky you are to have the best of both worlds.

I know many people who have chosen not to have children but like you they enjoy their neices and nephews, and lets face it you can hand them back to their parents anytime you like !! lol

So you are another feeder of everything furry ! I am beginning to get the impression we are all like minded ! We just cant abide seeing a furrbie and not being able to make life easier for them. I love the names you pick and learned something new today I didnt know herisson was the french for hedgehog ! lol

Im with you on the cooking, i love it to but hate doing the washing up !! lol i am more of a baker now, cakes disappear very quickly when my family comes around !! lol

And you just throw in kick boxing and dancing ! You must be very fit to ! How on earth did you get into kick boxing ? Dancing in my youth but not so much now, unless you peeked through my window late at night when i have some music on, although it only passes as my dancing !!! lol

Thanks Alekto for posting I have enjoyed reading your post so much and now I know more about you its so nice of you to share with me, new friends are so lovely. x