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What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?

I am not proud,it’s not in my cultural background to have pride.Indeed pride,if not the actual sin of vanity ,negates my view that the best thing about my cultural background is indeed my ingrained belief in multiculturalism.

That’s not to say that my background ,environmental influences and genetics have not given me many interesting and valuable traits that inherently define me. Nothing wrong with that.

The most valuable trait is however the ability to accept and understand all the other cultures that exist and to respect them and in turn to gain the respect of other cultures by being respectful of their beliefs.

That is ingrained in me and makes me strong not weak. A vulture will pick at carrion for its’ survival, but carrion is dead.Culture is alive and kicking ;we should embrace it and respect it for what it is Culture.

What brands do you associate with?

Heinz Baked Beans…..Love them….we are very close,I can’t walk by them on a supermarket shelf and not buy a four pack.

What could you do more of?

I could wonder more at how amazing life is,because it is.

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

What is the difference between paid for advice and free advice and which one is best?

We are  a world where advice through multiple channels is available from what seasonal  plants to grow in your garden,to how to build a safe submarine,or indeed who to vote for.

Advice can be listened to or ignored, we have a choice ;I hope.Or are the advice algorithms eliminating that choice?

Let’s face it every loud mouthed nincompoop wants you to listen to them.

So ,with the current situation,I still go back to the best advice I was ever given which has come in handy multiple times throughout my life and that was to memorise my N.I. number.

What things give you energy?

I can really recommend bananas for energy.An amazingly well packaged fruit,with a delicious sweetness when ripe and a great capacity for storage through transportation from far off places,the closest to us being the Canary Islands just off the coast of Spain.

Bananas!

What’s your all-time favorite album?

Ahhh…did you mean music?There are too many so I will plump for this album put together by him indoors containing wonderful photos of his trip to Africa.

Which includes the big Five and lots of beautiful scenic pictures.

Which topics would you like to be more informed about?

I would like to be informed about misinformation.

In reality  I would like a divining rod which would flip irritably when it comes across any form of misinformation.

Turtles know about these things.

What would your life be like without music?

Modern obsession is not with Music but with those that create it.We are fans,we want to know what influences lead to the creation of such wonderful pieces.The love,the trauma and the inspiration.

Why did Bill Hailey want to Rock around The Clock and why did the Eagles take it anything but easy.

Memorabilia and Biography are complete industries in themselves,for all sorts of musical artists from Chopin to Taylor Swift

However,the Music, the notes,the best,the arrangement is what it is all about and a mathematical analysis and indeed copyright law will tell you that there is a finite resource of music.There are only so many notes and beats.

However,if we just look at the music,the joining together of notes, we find it everywhere, bird song, a whistling kettle,a busker playing in the street, choirs singing in Church and Bell Ringers at a Wedding.

My favourite songs on the radio, and on my various listening devices I use ,can reduce my  overthinking and boredom,along with the opportunity to move with a beat while prancing around the house performing the role of a domestic goddess.Thatbis invaluable to me.

Increasingly ,artists see performing live as being an integral and lucrative part of their repertoire.In truth, I love recordings,but if the artist on the day can match or better the quality of the recording,then that is a wonderful achievement and to be part of a cohesive group enjoying it is even better.

So life without music,,nor indeed musicians,be they human or from natural phenomenon would I think be impossible The birds will still tweet,no matter what

How do you celebrate holidays?

I do my best to Celebrate them all but there are so many! Therefore I Celebrate by remembering them and to do that I have to list them….here is the list

Ramadan which is  the 9th Month of the Islamic  Lunar calendar

Ash Wednesday which is the first day of Lent which is 4 weeks before Easter.

Eid Al-Fatr, commemorates the end of Ramadan

Bodhi Day 8th December,celebrated by Budhists

Christmas Day. 25th December celebrated by Christians.

Nowruz, the Iranian New Year,based on the Northern Spring Equinox,usually between the 19th and 22nd of March on the Gregorian Calendar.

…..actually there are too many to list…interesting fact though Hinduism and Catholicism have the most holidays as practically every day of the year has some special significance and is to be celebrated

That’s not counting my statutory holiday that is part of my holiday entitlement at work.So all in all there’s something to celebrate every day!

Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.

My epic bake fail happened as we were packing last May to go to Cornwall on a caravanning holiday.

I’d got up early to make some muffins so we could have some to eat on the journey and some to eat for the first few days of our holiday.

I made them with  any ingredients that might have gone off while we were away ,so like the good little recycler I am,when I’d finished the cupboards and fridge were bare.

The cakes after coming out of the oven cooled nicely on their wire tray and I packed them in a large pink  tupperware box ready to put in the car.

Then disaster struck, everything was packed except the cakes.They stayed on the kitchen table for the whole of the two weeks we were away.

It was torture on the journey down knowing the cakes were not with us,as I do make nice cakes. Looking at the selection in the service station made me even more unhappy as they were full of sugar and additives.

Then there wasn’t that welcoming bun with a cup of tea when we set up the caravan,all in all it was a crushing reminder of my forgetfulness.

When we got back ,the buns were just developing mould and sadly I tipped the whole beautiful box into the food recycling.

I was so heartbroken,at first I said never again,but after having been exposed to service station food,I think I have to be brave and try again.