Answer Me This

Linking up with Catholic All Year!

1. Do you hate happy clappy church music.

I actually don't! I grew up with traditional hymns, went to catholic schools from 4 through to 18 and spent a chunk of my teen years at a catholic boarding school so those hymns are comforting, nostalgic, and I almost don't have to think about them when singing. Which isn't really the point, I do like the happy claply stuff, I like the emotions they tap into, I like how they often speak of a relationship with God. But I still adore the old classics from childhood.

2 What is your priority, eating or sleeping?

Oooo tricky. Must be eating. I'm in a bad spiral with eating just now :-/ I am not good at sleeping, never have been, but I do love it. Food never fails me, unlike sleep.

3. What type of milk do you drink in your house?

We get it delivered from a local dairy in old fashioned milk bottles that remind me if being a little girl! We only started this since moving to this fair isle but I do love it. Marc get irritated by the amount if bottles that go off, but something in it feels more wholesome than your supermarket plastic jugs of milk.

4. What is a book that changed your perspective on something?

Hmmmm. I am an avid reader (or I was, before munchkins) but I am

Finding this hard to answer. I think reading about the Spanish Civil war a few years ago in The Return by Victoria Hislop really opened my eyes to

My fathers childhood during that era. I really had no clue of the brutalities and hardships that the Spanish people suffered and it made me see my father and who he was in an entirely different way. 

5. Who is your favourite saint?

I am not sure I have one! Perhaps Sta Teresa de Avila. I was in Avila house at boarding school and learned about her then, her patronage of loss of parents, people in need of grace (both me) and bodily ills (my parents, particularly my mother) and for Spain are close to my heart.

6. Introvert or Extrovert

I think anyone who knew me in real life would say extrovert, but this is learned behaviour from all the moving we did (which I am beginning to realise wasn't necessarily a bad thing!) I think I probably lean more towards introvert, I have to work at not staying inside my own little bubble, some times with more success than at other times.

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