I'm wondering about you. Just silly things. I was going about my day and enjoying the things I enjoy and I wondered how everyone else feels about many of the little things that bring me pleasure. So, please participate in all or a chosen few -- especially the locals, for this can only end in me providing the things you like best when you cavort at my castle.

1. What are your favourite colours?
2. What do you most want wrapped around your skin: cotton, wool, synthetics or something else?
3. What is your favourite smell? What smell makes you salivate or whisks you away to a special moment?
4. What is your favourite flavour?
5. Do you drink coffee? If so, how? Do you make it at home or only buy in cafés? Do you grind your own beans or buy pre-ground?
6. Do you drink tea? In bags or loose leaf? White, green, black, red-bush or what? What's your favourite?
7. Chocolate: Milk, dark, filled with fruits and nuts or thanks but no thanks. Tell me all about it.
8. What's your favourite comfort food baked good?
9. Do you drink wine, ale or other forms of alcohol? What's your favourite?
10. Do you love the soft glow of a candle? Scented or not? What is it?
11. Do you wear jewelry? Necklaces? Bracelets? Earrings? Are they pierced or not? Matching sets? Chains with pendants? Charm bracelets? A favourite stone? Tell me about what you like and what you dream of owning.
12. When your toes tap to a tune, do you hum, whistle or sing? Do you sing in public or only in the safety of the car or shower?
13. Do you enjoy flowers in your home? Potted plants or cut flowers? What's your favourite?
Bold the ones you've done.

Note:  Not all of these were done Down Under.  Since I'm not technically Australian, I'm quite pleased to have done what I've done.

1. Heard a kookaburra in person (there was one living in our yard in Sydney.  Every morning it would serenade me)
2. Slept under the stars
3. Seen a koala.  
(I've even hugged one)
4. Visited Melbourne
5. Watched a summer thunderstorm 
6. Worn a pair of thongs

7. Been to Uluru (Ayer's Rock).
8. Visited Cape York
9. Held a snake
10. Sang along with Khe San
11. Drank VB
12. Visited Sydney
13. Have seen a shark
(I did so while diving the Great Barrier Reef)
14. Have used Aussie slang naturally in a conversation
15. Had an actual conversation with an indigenous Australian (aboriginal).

16. Eaten hot chips from the bag at the beach
17. Walked/climbed over the Sydney Harbour Bridge - on the footpath
18. Used an outside dunny, and checked under the seat before sitting down
19. Seen Chloe in Young & Jackson's.
20. Slept on an overnight train or bus
21. Been to Sydney's Mardi Gras
22. Have gone bush-bashing
23. Taken a sickie
24. Been to see a game of Aussie Rules football
25. Have seen wild camels
26. Gone skinny dipping.
27. Had a Tim Tam Slam
28. Ridden in a tram in Melbourne
29. Been at an ANZAC day Dawn Service.
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Held a wombat
32. Been on a roadtrip of 800km or more

33. Seen the Great Australian Bight in person
34. Had a really bad sunburn
35. Visited an aboriginal community

36. Seen a redback spider
37. Have watched Paul Hogan
38. Seen Blue Poles in person
39. Wandered barefoot in the bush/outback
40. Eaten Vegemite
41. Thrown a boomerang

42. Seen the Kimberlies
43. Given a hitch-hiker a lift
44. Been to Perth
45. Have tried Lemon, Lime and Bitters
46. Tried playing a didgeridoo
47. Seen dinosaur footprints

48. Eaten Tim Tams
49. Been to Darwin
50. Touched a kangaroo
51. Visted the Great Barrier Reef

52. Listened to Kevin Bloody Wilson
53. Killed a Cane Toad
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre
55. Have read and own books by Australian authors

56. Visited Adelaide
57. Know the story behind "Eternity"
58. Been camping
59. Visited Brisbane

60. Been in an outback pub
61. Know what the term "Waltzing Matilda" actually means
62. Gone whale watching.

63. Listened to Slim Dusty
64. Own five or more Australian movies or TV series
65. Sang along to Down Under
66. Have stopped specifically to look at an historic marker by the side of the road.

67. Eaten a 4'n'20 pie
68. Surfed at Bondi -- body surfed.
69. Watched the cricket on Boxing Day
70. Visited Hobart
71. Eaten kangaroo
72. Seen a quokka
73. Visited Canberra
74. Visited rainforests 
75. Used a Victa lawnmower
76. Travelled on a tram in Adelaide
78. Used a Hills hoist
79. Visited the Olgas
80. Used native Australian plants in cooking
81. Visited the snow  (I grew up in the snow -- just not Australian snow)
82. Chosen a side in Holden VS Ford
83. Visited the desert
84. Been water skiing

85. Read The Phantom
86. Visited Parliament House - Old
87. Gone spotlighting or pig-shooting
88. Crossed the Nullarbor
89. Avoided swimming in areas because of crocodiles (yes, but it was in Florida) 
90. Listened to AC/DC.
91. Called someone a dag
92. Voted in a Federal Election
93. Have been swimming and stayed between the flags

94. Had a possum in your roof
95. Visited the outback
96. Travelled over corrugated roads.
97. Hit a kangaroo while driving
98. Been well outside any mobile phone coverage (pfft... I lived much of my life before mobile phone coverage existed, but yes, quite recently)
99. Seen an emu.
100. Have woken to the smell of bushfires
(faintly, mostly experienced the haze and pollution of them)

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