Brews - Plinky Answers

Talking Versus Texting: why choose?

2011-01-08T12:32:19-06:00

Both have their place in our modern world. I'd rather text than talk on the phone. I'd rather socialise face to face.

Nothing

2010-10-18T16:06:44-06:00

Nothing. I always have to answer the question 'what are you superstitious about'? By saying nothing. Then I have to touch my nose three times. Touch the floor. Spin round four times clockwise.

The end of an era, and the beginning of another

2010-04-07T07:22:50-06:00

So long Plinky and thanks for all the prompts!

Sliced and salted he watched me eat it

2010-03-31T08:40:09-06:00

In Turkey in '87 a man approached me and beckoned me to follow him. I was young. Scared. I'd just slept in the street and was emerging blinking, clutching my pack tightly to my chest. He took my hand, led me a short distance and bought me a cucumber. Sliced and salted he watched me eat it. No words passed between us. And then he was gone, as quickly as the sun rising behind the blue mosque. But it left a feeling of hope deep in my belly that I still feel today.

I'll be great at Bluegrass dancing

2010-03-31T08:29:42-06:00

I'd start with my skinny arms loose limbed. Stick my bum out a bit. And then clog up them feet til the dust rose and the rag tag audience attracted by my speed, my craziness, disolved into the floor shrieking.

I have to wonder about how the Crocodile came to be

2010-03-31T08:21:11-06:00

It should never have been allowed.

Nile Crocodile

Crocodiles. Just look at it. It's a dinosaur that survived. An alien from another planet. A salt water creature in fresh water and a fresh water freak in brine. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

I like it hot. But I'm never having it that hot again.

2010-03-31T08:12:30-06:00

Hot is addictive. When it's too hot I think never again. But I always do. In Thailand I made the mistake of saying phom chorp phet. And the Tom Yum soup he brought made my hands go numb.

A haiku about a peanut butter sandwich

2010-03-31T08:04:51-06:00

Life can repeat itself. But there is always a glimmer of hope.

Peanut butter & Wheat Bread

Peanut butter sand
Which was boring. Tomorrow
might well be the same.

The Red crayon will help

2010-03-31T07:57:56-06:00

Brown is banned. Because my mum said so.

Red
I wouldn't go for anything too dark like black

Yellow
I wouldn't go for anything too drab like brown

Green
It's the colour of spring and that's what it puts in your step

Naughty
You are only allowed 3.

I'm an expert dragon trainer

2010-01-06T07:38:12-06:00

It's true. I reckon that I'm the best Dragon voice recognition trainer in the world.

Someday I'll have a Yurt

2009-12-21T10:25:17-06:00

So it's going to be something that's low impact. And that can move. I stayed a couple of days in a yurt in Mongolia and it was great. -15 C outside and lovely and cosy and warm inside. Surprisingly roomy.

Stopping smoking changed my life for the better

2009-12-21T10:00:32-06:00

I ground my teeth. And ran up and down the walls. Shook with rage and self pity. Couldn't concentrate. Jangled and rubbed my nerves raw. But I don't miss it. Been two years now.

Two days is too long to go without showering

2009-12-21T09:51:56-06:00

I once went about 2 weeks without washing. But then I was on my own, living in a van in the middle of no where with no running water. And it was the middle of winter. Still that was way too bloody long. I think I was getting a bit too into the whole crusty scum thing and wore my dirt like a uniform. It's like a tree falling in a forest if there is no one to smell you then do you really smell?

I can't live without my Wooden pestle and mortar in the kitchen

2009-12-21T09:44:00-06:00

Wooden pestle and mortar
Need it to make spicy Thai salads. Bought it in Chiang Mia and everyone thought it was really funny in the street when they saw us carrying it. I'd just done a great cookery course and decided I must have one. I guess people were surprised to see me carrying it like it was some amazing tourist souvenir.

If I can't sleep, I turn to stanza

2009-12-16T07:33:36-06:00

The iPhone ebook reader.

Book Detail Page - BookGlutton on Stanza

My iPhone. I just read a book on my phone until I'm ready to fall back to sleep. I had terrible insomnia for years but I'm ok now.

When 'no' is too harsh, try saying 'Possibly, possibly'

2009-12-16T07:25:04-06:00

Possibly, possibly
If someone asks me to do something and I don't want to say no.

Punk mohican went out of style too soon

2009-12-09T04:31:16-06:00

It's still around but just don't think I could get away with it at work.

Mohican

Look cool!

I sort of recommend getting a Parson Russell for a pet

2009-12-01T10:46:14-06:00

They're cute but feisty.

Stella

Actually on second thoughts don't get a Parson Russell. Get a goldfish or something. Or a tortoise. Parsons are strong willed. They have a bark like a car alarm. They get obsessed about things and can't let go. But those big round piggy eyes....

A ghost story - throw it all out and start again.

2009-12-01T10:42:26-06:00

I haven't seen a ghost but I so wish I did. It would bring the whole of civilisation crashing down. We would have to throw out all our science books and start again. No more biology, physics or chemistry - or not as we know it today.

There's Mature cheddar cheese from Cheddar in my pantry

2009-12-01T10:38:51-06:00

Pantry - don't have one now but used to.

Mature cheddar cheese from Cheddar
Well that's what we used to keep in the pantry. I can't say I really have a pantry. But we did when I was growing up. We used to buy a huge cloth covered cheese from Cheddar in the summer on the way back from our holiday then we would mature it some more by leaving it in the pantry until Christmas. It was so strong it burned your mouth!

Got a puppy? Good luck keeping your house clean

2009-12-01T10:27:46-06:00

1. They don't wear nappies.
2. They chew everything and have sharp teeth from an early age.
3. They are almost instantly mobile.
4. They don't sleep much until they are older.
5. They moult.

I'd love to ask my great-great-grandparents 'Why is our family so weird?'

2009-11-20T10:35:23-06:00

Why is our family so weird?
Our family is pretty weird. So I'd like to know if we have always been like that or did we have to work really hard.

Hated macs like I hated the Beatles.

2009-11-19T02:36:38-06:00

I guess I'm a PC. My first experience of a mac was trying to install a piece of software for someone. Couldn't get the cd in. Didn't autostart and then took me a while to work out how to start the installation. Then could I pop the sodding cd out? No I bloody couldn't. I was still pretending that I was capable of doing the job and I really didn't need a machine taking the piss out of me and messing with my mind. I can quite happily say I hated apple and it's macs. Then one day I was walking past a mobile phone shop and it was full. All these people standing round this table. Cooing like pigeons. Posters everywhere declaring it's new arrival. I went in thinking ok let's have a look at this phone. With a bit of a sneer on my face. Really annoyed me all this poncey oh they are so well designed crap. And then I picked it up. So slim. And shiny. And bright. And all these little gorgeous icons. And this huge screen. So flat. And seamless. Oozing touch me. Touch me. I dropped it quick. But it'd got me. And it wasn't long before I was back buying this sleek black box. Ok so there was a momentary flashback when I couldn't see where to put the sim card. But apart from that I've never looked back.

Spring is the best if you hold a gun to my head.

2009-11-14T06:53:09-06:00

It's more the changing of the seasons that I like. There's a beauty in each one. If I had to say a favourite it would be spring, followed by summer. Then autumn. Then winter. But it's a close call. And that's the order they go in. It's a cycle. How ever long and wet and dark and cold winter is spring is lurking deep underground. Waiting. Hibernating. Everything shades of grey. Black and White. With moods to match. Until bright green pinpricks appear through the gloom. And you know everything is going to be alright. And then you start to feel the sun on your face. And you crawl out onto a rock. Shed your winter scales growing soft through spring. And you allow yourself a smile. The shoulders thrust back and you stand briefly only to flop lugrubiously onto the scratchy green glass. Eyes scrunched. Forehead damp. And when you've just got yourself compfy a cool wind begins to dry your brow. There's a blinding flash of golden colour, all reds and yellows. Before dissolving before your eyes into brown and you know it's only a small step to the brown and the sticky mud. And then the air takes on a bite. A crisp crunchy apple from the fridge. And each night before you go to bed. Head buried between a mountain of blankets. Where the only light you see is from a pale sickly yellow flickering bulb. And you pray for snow. Anything to break this monotone. And just as the fingers of despair are plucking and tugging on your thick, heavy coattails you raise your head from your aching neck to ease your curving spine and there in the distance you catch a glimpse of bright shiny pinpricks appearing through the murky gloom. And you think to yourself. Yes. Everything is going to be alright.

Color me Yellow suit

2009-11-13T02:52:32-06:00

london_wall_performance_art_2

It would have to be dark green. Bit boring I know but not as lifeless as black or dark grey. I mean come on I'm not going to pick yellow. I remember a story about a friend of mines mum going to her mums funeral in a yellow suit. And she walked in front of the car carrying the coffin. In celebration of her life she said.

My vanity plate - ****

2009-11-13T02:26:16-06:00

I don't know what I'd have. The six winning numbers of the lottery would be nice. I'm tempted to say ****!. Just fill in the rudest word you know. But I'd never have the nerve.

Ahem. Beam!

2009-09-23T07:24:00-06:00

Smile at them. Simple.

I head to The Mosque for my favorite lunch

2009-09-09T10:00:41-06:00

Not a sandwich as such.

The local mosque does one of the best curries in Edinburgh. Forging community links and putting paid to prejudice with every naan, kebab, curry and rice they sell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Central_Mosque#Mosque_Kitchen

Have the galaxy chocolate truck back up to my door

2009-09-08T10:53:01-06:00

Don't have that much of a sweet tooth really.

Brain Foood.

Galaxy

In 2109, my personal robot attendant will Make coffee

2009-09-08T10:49:57-06:00

Make coffee
It's my job in the morning to make coffee and this would give an extra 5 minutes in bed.

Go to work
Then I wouldn't have to.