O, yes, this …
Haha … after she’s finished at your end, send her over to me next.
Were you ever about 3 days on the open sea at that weather and you couldn’t hope anyone would find you unless dead? Not that I experienced that but a friend of my father did and when they found him at last he was out of his mind for about two or so weeks … Not a pleasant thing at all and at the Adriatic sea it can be as rough as elswhere especially when “bora” the strong wind comes with about 200 - 250 km/h.
Did someone say “misspellings”?
Storžič 2,132 m - the view through my window (a bit zoomed in though).
Happy easter to all!
Now my bits and pieces:
1. Do you have any Easter traditions?
Well as many of you, we paint the eggs but for many years we tend to make things as simple as possible so our Easter Eggs are almost always more or less the same.
These are from about 2 hours ago.
We don’t do any Easter Eggs hunt and it also was never a part of our family tradition. Bringing presents (mostly chocholate eggs, real Easter eggs and chocholate bunnies) to kids was more of a tradition though.
The tradition in our family also was to spread the crashed blessed Easter Egg shells around the house in order that the snakes wouldn’t lurk around in the Summer. Thuis is also more of the common Slovene tradition aswell.
We also bake a dish called “prata” and consists of smoked cooked meat, old bread and lots of eggs all mixed together and traditionally filled into the pork colon (which stays in the water with lots of onion through the night so that it looses all that (possible) smell which could stil remain) and baked in the owen for about an hour on 180-200 °C. However we do this more modern way nowdays and all ingredients just put into baking tray which we put baking paper in and cover everything with baking paper also.
This year “prata” is the most delicious we had in a long time (shhh … we tried it already )
And, of course, here’s the famous and indispensable “potica” which we rather buy than bake it ourselves.
On the Easter Sunday in the morning we have Easter Breakfast consisting of “prata”, smoked meat, Easter eggs and some grated horseradish all part of not just our but Slovenian tradition.
and in the afternoon we (usually) roll Easter Eggs. The game is played until eggs are so badly smashed that they don’t roll anymore and you can nothing else to do but eat them. Every hit is payed by whatever players agree on. Usually we play for small amounts of money (like 0.50 €) or beans or similar stuff. Whoever is hit by the particular player (playing is one by one) must pay one unit of agreed payement method to that one who hit them. So if the company is big enough one can possibly get quite a prize.
You can do this outdors or indors, whatever you choose and according to the weather.
In general, there are some more interesting traditions going on allover our country, such as:
“sekanje pirhov”
There’s no English subtitles but you can see what “sekanje pirhov” is.
“strelnajne s karbidom” (shooting with the carbide)
and similar stuff.
2. What is the worst book to movie adaptation you’ve ever seen and which movie was much better than the book?
I don’t have the answer to this question though. Slovene movies are always very true to books. For the foreign movies I usually hardly know there was a book too or oposite way (apart from really famous ones like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings ets) and mostly if I read a book I didn’t watch the movie and oposite way. Reading the book I create my own movie in my head and I usually don’t want to spoil that.
3. If you could bring to life one type of fantastical entity, be it a fairy or a dragon, what would it be?
Night Fury Dragon
4. What can you produce from scratch? Whether it’s a wood carving, a cocktail, home grown cucumbers, painting, cake, piece of writing or the best barbecue for miles?
A lot of things and nothing at the same time. I actually agree with @Garys that “from scratch” probably doesn’t really exist at all. I make a lot of things though but nothing really that good to be really “proud of”.
I create music
I photograph, draw, make 3D renderings
I make animations and videos
I write poetry (of some kind …
I write a (highly fantasy) book in English
and I could go on and on … but nothing is as good as I’d like it to be …
5. Is there anything at all from natural world which has the ability to affect you mood in a positive way?
Nature itself in all beauty and glory but mostly scenes like this:
trying to capture them not really successfully though.
And a couple of Easter bonuses because it’s a long weekend…
6. Which is your favourite holiday of the year and why?
If there’s a word of Christmas, Easter and them alike, none actually. I love the Summer time though probably because it’s hot and as this is the time whe I have the longest holidays of the whole year.
7. What are you doing for the Easter holidays?
Nothing in particular as we were all ill one after another and now we’d just like to relax and do nothing for at least these 3 days as we don’t have Easter Holidays in our country what means I’ve worked yesterday too and Monday will be the only free day for these holidays.