QUESTIONS

Are you easily frightened or startled?

I’m not really sure! Loud, unexpected noises may make me jump and I have laid in bed at night listening to a strange noise and not wanting to get up and investigate, so I guess I am.

(Purely whimsical supposition.  Suspend disbelief for a bit)
If you were a ghost, what location do you think you would haunt? Is it the same or different from the location you’d want to haunt?

If I were a ghost I guess I’d probably haunt my own home as I’m very attached to my space as you know. I wouldn’t actually want to haunt anything. I don’t want to be like the ghosts in “A Christmas Carol” floating around going “Woe is me! Why didn’t I do this or that.”

What do you see in your mind’s eye when you close your eyes?  (I know somebody will answer ‘the inside of my eyelids”, so I took the temptation away by answering that first!    Feel free to use that answer if you like though, or pass. It’s ALL good!)

I don’t always see the same thing. I do like to visualise places I’d like to be to help me go to sleep so I visualise something like a compartment on the Indian Pacific train or walking through a place I’d like to visit . It works so well I usually fall asleep before I get very far.

If a Semi (Big Rig in Americanese) (lorry or trolley over the pond) were about to smash into a crowd, and you could divert the vehicle’s course to hit only one person, would you?  How would you decide who would become the victim?

Ah, The Trolley Problem! I would hate to have to do this, especially after watching an episode of “The Good Place” that dealt with it quite graphically. It was meant to be funny and it was but also gory. I don’t have the right to decide who lives and who dies but if someone had to I’d probably try to steer towards the least amount of people and hope that they were fast enough to get out of the way. Many might disagree but I would probably choose to head for a younger, fitter person who might stand a better chance of surviving than someone older, disabled or a young child. There has been a lot written on the subject and I find it an interesting problem ethically but I don’t want to have to do it.

GRATITUDE SECTION

Please feel free to share what makes you feel warm and cozy when the wind blows cold? Alternatively (for those on the other side of the world), what makes you feel relaxed and comfortable when the thermometer starts rising?

I’m going to stick with warm and cosy because it’s still pretty cold and wet down here. We’ve had a few nice days but a lot of rain and some nights that have gone down to single (Celsius) figures. I’ve had to wear bed socks!

Being tucked up in bed with my winter weight doona on the bed makes me feel very snug. So does relaxing in my favourite armchair with my feet up, the heat pump on, listening to the rain and wind outside while Cindy and Polly are sleeping nearby