Pnawn da! I hope that you are all well and enjoying this incredible heat that we’re having.
1) What (or who) should I throw on the barbecue this evening?
2) In which ways are you like either of your parents?
3) What’s in your warm sunny evening playlist?
4) Where does your yellow brick road lead to?
5) If you could have possession of any pair of tickets right now, be they for travel, entertainment or an event, what would they be?
6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it!
1) What (or who) should I throw on the barbecue this evening?
Courgette, red onion, red pepper, tomato and haloumi kebabs, thank you.
2) In which ways are you like either of your parents?
I have eyes.
My handwriting is exactly like my dad’s.
3) What’s in your warm sunny evening playlist?
Alice in Chains unplugged.
4) Where does your yellow brick road lead to?
The trees.
5) If you could have possession of any pair of tickets right now, be they for travel, entertainment or an event, what would they be?
So no room for the kids? A quiet island retreat would be amazing or maybe a walking holiday around the Welsh coastline.
6) I’ve seen some thought provoking films lately so … how would you change your life if you had the chance?
I would love to disappear off the grid and live a self-sufficient lifestyle (á la goodlife). Maybe if I had my time again.
1) What (or who) should I throw on the barbecue this evening?
Ribs! Sweet, sticky ribs! And lots of cole slaw (with chopped jalapenos) and roasted corn on the cob to go with.
2) In which ways are you like either of your parents?
I’m exactly like my father: a loner, snarky, and a wordsmith. My mother…? Not like her in the slightest.
3) What’s in your warm sunny evening playlist?
Rodrigo y Gabriela (see question #5), and some good old-fashioned Goa trance.
4) Where does your yellow brick road lead to?
A giant desk with an equally giant computer, the world’s most comfortable desk chair, and HUGE bookcases — the type that constitute bookcase porn — that not only have room for ALL my books, but also have some empty space for future acquisitions.
5) If you could have possession of any pair of tickets right now, be they for travel, entertainment or an event, what would they be?
Rodrigo y Gabriela. Or if I could go back in time to the early 90s, I’d like to see Mr. Big again.
6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it!
Hmm… okay. “What’s a movie you like that everyone else despises?”
AVATAR. I think it’s a load of fun. So sue me. 
I’ve never heard that everyone else despises it before. I thought it was well received. I like it so whatever. 
I’m really hungry! Good old sausages with oodles of onions fried until they’ve gone sticky.
I’m really jittery like my dad. Everyone tells me how like my mum I am, and although I don’t see it, I’m glad of it, because I really like her.
Husker Du.
Bed.
I missed David Byrne in Oxford the other week, and Robyn Hitchcock in Witney as well. If you’re going to give me tickets and a time travel machine, could you throw in a really nice babysitter too?
My question? What smell reminds you of summers long ago?
Chlorine and wet stone, drying in the sunshine - we used to spend our summers at a strange semi circular Lido in Bath called Cleveland Pools. We would go to the local garage and pay 20p for an old tractor inner tube and get them to overinflate it until it went bulgy. Best float ever.
Or hoof oil (for smelling, not floating on).
1) What (or who) should I throw on the barbecue this evening?
(Edit: Original reply deleted - was meant to be funny, but perhaps wasn’t.
But anyway, it’s far too hot for a barbecue anyway. (Help, I’m in an anyway loop; get me out; I’m a nonentity).
Lots of chilled wine and salad should do the trick, shouldn’t it?)
2) In which ways are you like either of your parents?
Sense of humour, and the way I walk(!) from my Dad.
Lack of confidence & good manners from my Mum.
3) What’s in your warm sunny evening playlist?
I don’t think I have one, but just recently, I’ve been playing “Could it be Magic” a lot…
both the musical one from Barry Manilow, and the sexy one from Donna Summer.
Also playing a lot of a-ha, such as the classics “Take on Me”, “Stay on These Roads”, “Train of Thought”, etc.
Our daughter was the original fan, but she got “The Olds” hooked as well.
4) Where does your yellow brick road lead to?
A yellow brick wall obviously; turn round and go back; do not pass go; do not collect £100.
5) If you could have possession of any pair of tickets right now, be they for travel, entertainment or an event, what would they be?
They’d be multi-journey international rail tickets. Valid for anywhere in Germany. (And between here and Germany, to be more specific. )
6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it!
How have you changed history recently?
I helped to organise an evening last night in which two internationally known economists spoke in Oxford about a new way of looking at economics. It should appear on Youtube and Vimeo in due course. It might play its small part in changing the world for the better.
The way it was received is apparently different depending upon the country you’re in. Perhaps I should say that, in the US, no one wants to admit publicly to liking it. I don’t know why, because it was well-written, visually stunning, well-acted, imaginative, and just plain fun. It got very high scores on both IMDb (7.8) and Rotten Tomatoes (83%), but the votes there are anonymous. We have this same problem here with other good films: it becomes fashionable to diss them for one reason or another: the director, the actors, the production values, the cost.
Conversely, we are hesitant to say that we don’t like films or TV shows that are extremely popular. Dare I suggest that we Americans have a tendency to follow the pack when it comes to our visual entertainment, perhaps because so much of it is produced here and we are a culture that overvalues both celebrity and the hot new thing of the moment? 
economists spoke in Oxford about a new way of looking at economics.
Interesting - I’d appreciate a link if and when their talks appear on YouTube.
Husker Du, my favourite band!
I’m not sure that I’m much alike any of them in any way.
To my fantasy Bryce world …
Perpetuum Jazzile Vocal Ecstasy concert made every year in October or November. One day I might get the chance to get the tickets since they’re sold out quite fast after announcing the dates of the concert what means 3 or 4 months before the event …
And for those who still don’t know who Perpetuum Jazzile are, here’s their really famous arangement and performance of Toto’s Africa with 20,867,455 views on YouTube … You know that famous one with rain and thunder at the beginning. The song was recorded on that so desired very same Vocal Ecstasy performance in the year of 2009. Enjoy.
1. What does music mean to you?
It means a lot to me. Apart from other very important things like family and such things, music means my life.
2. How your fantasy world looks like? Do you paint or create it any other way especially now that so much modern technology is to disposal?
My mostly consists from the islands in the middle of the sea of all shapes and colors with strange skies and clouds …
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And my fantasy blue world which was choosen for ArtWanted 2012 digital artwork calendar and represented 5th March of that year
3. If you would be choosen to learn to dance one of any national dances, which nation’s dance would you choose to dance?
I, something Welsh related. Something like this …
4. What’s the time in your area at the time you’re reading these my odd questions?
The time I’m writing them is 1:45 in the morning (obviously my most creative time).
5. Would you play with fire just like these dancers and musicians do???
So, I hope I didn’t annoy you with my odd questions and that many pics and vids posted. Sorry, my tech and odd nature work best together at the night, early morning hours.
1) What (or who) should I throw on the barbecue this evening?
Can’t go wrong with a slab of halloumi in a bun!
2) In which ways are you like either of your parents?
I don’t think I’m like either really. I’m completely different, which begs the question of how that worked out!
3) What’s in your warm sunny evening playlist?
It’s hard to beat “Pavement - Terror Twilight” LP for a BBQ.
4) Where does your yellow brick road lead to?
I’ve not seen the film relating to this, and am probably committing a cardinal offence to its fans by referring to it as a film, but assuming a yellow brick road leads to somewhere you want to end up, I’m pretty happy in Ceredigion!
5) If you could have possession of any pair of tickets right now, be they for travel, entertainment or an event, what would they be?
Tickets to travel through Europe for a few months.
Because it just is.
You wouldn’t let it lie! 
I was speaking to a girl who works in Siop y Pethe - I’ll keep her name secret so as to not imply the innocent…
she orders DOUBLE PINEAPPLE on her Dominos! Even that is a bit much for me.
To be honest what other people eat never bothers me, even if they were eating a pineapple and mushroom pizza at the same table, but it does mean I wouldn’t go halves on a pizza with you. I just couldn’t. 
Yes, but would she do that in Naples? No lo penso. 
Because the pinaple is the only thing on pizza which is not burned (in Spain in the year of 1994 - what means it was even too real. The pizza was coal black and only pinaple was edible.).
You didn’t do a mistake at all. It refers to Wizzard of Oz where Dorothy has to find the Yellow Brick path which would lead her directly to the Emeralt City (City of Oz). So, yes it leads somewhere where you would like to end or at least to be.
You’ve got to be careful with things like these 
If I say it was a film, and it turns out it was a book/novel first, I would be running the risk of looking like an “uncultured swine”
Edit: for clarity of meaning
Never heard of something like this in our country …
And, ohh I’ve taken the wrong part of your sentence for the quote wanting to emphasize that the yellow brick road really leads to somewhere you want to end up or want to be rather than going into discussion about what was first,film or a novel. As you know, of course, novel was first in this case.
And … I many times appear as a cultural swine so I stopped really bothering with such things. I am who/what I am … 
@tatjana, you are an amazing and helpful and interesting and important woman. We value you here, and recognise that you may not ‘get’ some of the cultural references. Thats OK, sometimes I don’t either. It really depends on our background, the films we saw, the books we read, the stories we heard. And they are all different. And we are all different.
1) What (or who) should I throw on the barbecue this evening?
Halloumi kebabs, corn on the cob, posh sausages, lots of salads to go with it.
2) In which ways are you like either of your parents?
I like to think I’m like my mum in that she sees the best in everyone. We’re probably both a bit prone to being lazy and needing a lot of down time. I’m more like my Dad was in having interests (some might say obsessions) which don’t always last.
3) What’s in your warm sunny evening playlist?
I throw everything I hear and like on Radio Cymru into a spotify playlist - most recently added Cyn i’r Lle 'ma gau (Y Bandana), Edrych rol fy hun (BronweN) and Can Creulon (Yws Gwynedd)
4) Where does your yellow brick road lead to?
Straight out of the city and onto a coast path, I’d walk for miles and dip in the sea whenever it got too hot. When I’d had enough walking a lovely seaside pub would be waiting.
5) If you could have possession of any pair of tickets right now, be they for travel, entertainment or an event, what would they be?
I’d like four tickets for the best seats in the house to see Hamilton please.
6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it!
The ice-cream van’s passing - what are you having?
Why a magnum would be lovely, thank you!