On Vegetation

Sarah and Tim are walking the dog, and I'm once again seizing the opportunity to blog.

As of the small hours of this morning, Hannah and I are both half-way to completing the Twenty Questions blogging challenge, and I've decided to mark the occasion with a brief recap of the question list.  Answered questions are denoted in grey like this, while the unanswered questions are denoted in italics like so:

My questions for H:

1. Where did the sheep obsession come from?
2. If you ruled the universe, what’s the first law you would pass?
3. What’s wrong with Doritos, anyway?
4. Who is your anti-role model?
5. How big are your feet?
6. Do you like mornings?
7. Beethoven or Bieber?
8. Ink or acrylics?
9. What’s the most overrated book out there?
10. Would you prefer an alien invasion or a zombie apocalypse?
11. What’s the strangest activity/project/group you’ve been involved with?
12. If you had to choose between your eyes and your ears…?
13. If you wrote a comic strip, what would it be about?
14. What’s your most recently formed life ambition?
15. So… what to do when life gives you lemons?
16. Which is the best chocolate bar, and why?
17. What would your dream house be like?
18. Has Steven Moffat dropped the ball?
19. Why is your car called that?
20. Is this the last question?

...and her questions for me:

1. We’ve reached the end of the Harry Potter era.  Thoughts?
2. If you were an animal, how on earth did you become an animal?
3. How would you describe your taste in music?
4. If you were a character in Doctor Who, who would you be?
5. Do you have a favourite medium to use when doing artwork?
6. How tall are you?
7. If you were a shape, what shape would you be?
8. What is your favourite character that you’ve created so far?
9. Do you have a favourite novel?
10. You now have a type 40 TARDIS.  Where and when would your top destinations be?
11. What is your earliest memory?
12. What is your suitcase packing method?
13. Please can I have your bank details?
14. Do you like broccoli when it isn’t named Albert?
15. Sheep or cows?
16. Zombies or unicorns?
17. What is your favourite smell?
18. Would you ever go bungee jumping?
19. If you were prime minister, what would you do differently?
20. If the answer is 42, what is the question?

To kick off the second half, I will answer Question 14: "Do you like broccoli when it isn’t named Albert?"


I do like broccoli, and so long as it isn't either gone off, or a particular pixelated sprig called Albert, then I'll eat it with no fuss and bother at all.  I've been accused of not liking anything green, but that's not a fair claim.  I'll eat lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, asparagus, and peas (among others) quite happily.  And I like plenty of vegetables in other colours.  It's just that the ones I don't like all happen to be green ones: cucumber, courgette, marrow, and most variants on the theme of green beans.

I digress.  Most of the times I've had this particular vegetable, it's been washed and lightly microwaved so it no longer counts as raw, but still pretty close to its in-the-field state, with all the nutrimental goodnesses still intact, and then served up in a little pile of its own on one side of the plate.

Some of you may be wondering why Hannah made that cryptic reference to a broccoli called Albert - since when does anyone name broccoli Albert?  For the benefit of those who don't know, she's making a reference to my webcomic, Cylinder and Miserable, in which Cylinder has an artificially-sentient vegetable called Albert S. Broccoli (the S. stands for Sentient) as his butler/chauffeur/manager/accomplice/whatever.  He was named after the former James Bond film producer Albert R. Broccoli, as a joke, and now it's stuck.


Some fresh, juicy stats for you to chew on:

• Twenty Questions status: 11 down, 9 to go
• Days until Root Hill: 7
• Latest book read: don't remember anything since Dianetics
• Latest film/TV watched: Monsters vs Aliens
• Latest music listened to: Cylinder and Miserable Official Webcomic Soundtrack: Series 1 Suite
• Latest edible item eaten: some sort of cranberry breakfast cereal
• Predominant colour of clothes: grey
• Programs and web pages currently running: Incredimail, Firefox (tabs: Hannah's blog; Blogspot Dashboard; A White Horizon; Blogspot Create Post; Webs)
• Webcomics posted today: Cylinder and Miserable #1335

- The Colclough