Interview: Questions from 17catherines
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17catherines asked me.
1. What do you live for?
My family. Currently it consists of husbandlederhosen, Adam "Ratboy", his father Tony, my mum and dad and brothers, close friends I consider sisters and brothers, and especially the surrogate Mum down the back.
2. What (if anything) do you miss about being a teenager?
You know, I never ever want to go through teenage years again. Rampant sexual hormones and confusing mass-media and peer-group messages, a body that changed without you wanting it to, a school that lived on a reputation it had lost 10 years before, discovering I wasn't my mother's favourite despite what I did, not being allowed my stuff without my brother stealing it, nothing in my size that wasn't a tent (thank goodness there's so much more choice these days) - if there had been Goths in those days I would have been one. Ok - so there were - just not in the Norhtern Suburbs of Sydney.
3. What are the three wishes you would ask your fairy godmother for?
How powerful is she? An end to world hunger, world peace, and rational leaders who obey their own rules for the big ones.
For the personal ones, hmmmm. For my beloved to have a job in Melbourne so we could all move there, for the non-sandstone Universities to have decent lecturers, for a 500 cc step-through motorbike in electric metallic blue with side-lights.
4. Why Sydney?
Geoffrey's job. It's the Blue Mountains really: Sydney's 2 hours away by train. Currently our engineers are working on moving the Blue Mountains and Melbourne closer together, with a side warp to Adelaide and sub-tunnels to Oregon, Lunenburg and Hartford. We'll let you know how we're doing.
5. What is the best recipe you have ever created?
Tarragon fish pie, or flavoured salad dressing?
The dressing is easy - use the vinegar from gherkins, the oil from sun-dried tomatoes, then add a small amount of French mustard. Yum.
Tarragon fish pie is: gently fry or broil fish, remove bones. Saute some fine-chopped onions or spring-onion stalks. Boil potatoes and mash with plenty of salt, butter, pepper and the onion. Cook pumpkin and mash with sour cream, the fish and the tarragon. Place the mixtures in layers of 1cm into a casserole dish, starting and finishing with the potato. Reheat if necessary in overn or microwave. Melt a little butter over the potato and grill the top until just brown. Enjoy.
17catherines asked me. 1. What do you live for?
My family. Currently it consists of husband
lederhosen, Adam "Ratboy", his father Tony, my mum and dad and brothers, close friends I consider sisters and brothers, and especially the surrogate Mum down the back. 2. What (if anything) do you miss about being a teenager?
You know, I never ever want to go through teenage years again. Rampant sexual hormones and confusing mass-media and peer-group messages, a body that changed without you wanting it to, a school that lived on a reputation it had lost 10 years before, discovering I wasn't my mother's favourite despite what I did, not being allowed my stuff without my brother stealing it, nothing in my size that wasn't a tent (thank goodness there's so much more choice these days) - if there had been Goths in those days I would have been one. Ok - so there were - just not in the Norhtern Suburbs of Sydney.
3. What are the three wishes you would ask your fairy godmother for?
How powerful is she? An end to world hunger, world peace, and rational leaders who obey their own rules for the big ones.
For the personal ones, hmmmm. For my beloved to have a job in Melbourne so we could all move there, for the non-sandstone Universities to have decent lecturers, for a 500 cc step-through motorbike in electric metallic blue with side-lights.
4. Why Sydney?
Geoffrey's job. It's the Blue Mountains really: Sydney's 2 hours away by train. Currently our engineers are working on moving the Blue Mountains and Melbourne closer together, with a side warp to Adelaide and sub-tunnels to Oregon, Lunenburg and Hartford. We'll let you know how we're doing.
5. What is the best recipe you have ever created?
Tarragon fish pie, or flavoured salad dressing?
The dressing is easy - use the vinegar from gherkins, the oil from sun-dried tomatoes, then add a small amount of French mustard. Yum.
Tarragon fish pie is: gently fry or broil fish, remove bones. Saute some fine-chopped onions or spring-onion stalks. Boil potatoes and mash with plenty of salt, butter, pepper and the onion. Cook pumpkin and mash with sour cream, the fish and the tarragon. Place the mixtures in layers of 1cm into a casserole dish, starting and finishing with the potato. Reheat if necessary in overn or microwave. Melt a little butter over the potato and grill the top until just brown. Enjoy.
