Nev of Waterlily has just posted his Twenty Answers, so I've created a list of those bloggers I know of who are taking part in the Canal Boat magazine game (see the list on the right).
The questions are :
- What's your favourite canal?
- And your least-favourite?
- Who would be your ideal cruising companion?
- What was the last book you read? (I reckon the question should be "last waterways book you read, not including magazines or canal guides")
- What's your favourite time of day on the waterways?
- What irritates you most on the waterways?
- When would you most like to have lived?
- When did you last fall in?
- What did you want to be at 12?
- If I didn't have narrowboating I'd ... ?
- Narrowboaters are ... ?
- After a day's cruising I most look forward to ...
- The waterways need ... ?
- If you met the Waterways Minister on the towpath, what would you say to him?
- Windows or portholes?
- Pumpout or cassette?
- Canals or rivers?
- Where will you be when you are 70?
- What do you think is your greatest achievement in life?
- What would your superpower be?
As good a selection of questions as any, I think. There's an element of randomness to them, but I can't think that are any that are better, just different. Since this is Canal Boat's game, let's use their ball, eh?
Sarah of Warrior, in her own post on 6th May, thought it would be a good wheeze to withhold the questions and make you guess them from the answers.
Canal Boat, unfortunately, doesn't put the original feature online, but DogsOnTour has not only given the answers but has also given the questions too, so bang goes Sarah's element of the game!
Here are my answers to twenty questions
1. Macclesfield Canal
2. If it is a canal and has locks I love it
3. The wife obviously
4. Something by James Patterson, I can't quite remember the name
5. Dawn or dusk in summer
6. All those boaters who do not pay mooring fees and moor all winter round the corner from me for nothing whilst I pay my dues!!
7. Now but a few years younger
8. 1977 - they told me breakfast was served so I jumped for the bank with rope, mallet and mooring pin, ... and missed!!
9. A pilot in the RAF
10. I'd be insane
11. Different
12. A glass of sherry, a fine red wine with my dinner and good fishing.
13. Investment to protect something that is wonderful and could be even better
14. Who are you?
15. A combination of both
16. Once again, a combination of both.
17. Canals, if I wanted to cruise rivers all the time I would have a gin palace, (by the way I do have an optic mounted in the boat serving gin!)
18. Hopefully still cruising and living aboard.
19. Retiring at 49 and living aboard,having two lovely children and three even more lovely grandchildren.
20. Finding the satelite for sky television when England are winning - almost impossible
Posted by: Mike Moorse | Tuesday, 27 May 2008 at 06:23 PM
Here's my contribution:
http://fadetoscarlet.blogspot.com/2008/05/twenty-questions.html
Great idea!
Posted by: Amy | Tuesday, 27 May 2008 at 12:01 AM