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May was a good month, wasn't it? Well it certainly was here on my blog! I had loads of awesome guests come and chat about all kinds of things, do giveaways, and there was the wonderful Blog Hop Against Homophobia as well. Lots of people to meet, books to read and stuff to talk about. Pretty awesome.
Part of the interviews I did involved asking everyone a variety of questions, (obviously!), but there was one question that I asked everyone I interviewed - if you were a plant in the next life, what would you be and why? Such a wonderful variety of answers, I thought I'd recap the month with everyone's answers to that question, with a link to each interview. (I'll link guest posts at the end.)
And if you want to comment and tell us what sort of a plant you would be in the next life, then please do! The more, the merrier!
Q: If you were a plant in the next life, what would you be and why?
3/5 C. R. Moss. "I'd be an oak tree. Sturdy, beautiful, able to offer shelter to wildlife and shade to people. :)"
4/5 Kim Fielding. "Lavender. It’s pretty and useful and smells nice, hardly any pests bother it, and it can live quite a long time under difficult conditions. It’s not fussy. Who doesn’t like lavender?"
6/5 Hayley B. James. "Oh! What a fun question! I think I’d want to be a lilac bush. I love the smell of lilac flowers."
10/5 Helen Pattskyn. "LOL! I would love to be a belladonna atropa. They’re quietly beautiful (brown flowers that become big black “berries”) and only slightly poisonous (assuming you’re not a small child)."
12/5 RJ Astruc. "I have some lucky bamboo on my balcony, and I love it, it’s so cool and curly. So that’s what I’d go for. I’m going to pretend, of course, that I’d grow that way naturally, and not have to suffer lots of splinting and twisting in the growing process…"
16/5 Leora Stark. "Lavender. I am obsessed with it. I'd be so relaxed all the time!"
19/5 Jacqueline Brocker. "What I'd like to be; daffodil - I just love them so much, bright and always cheerful. But this is not me so much, so I'd probably be something a bit quirkier like, I dunno, a snapdragon. ;)"
20/5 Meredith Shayne. "A cactus, because I'm a bit fleshy, a bit prickly, and hard to kill."
24/5 Megan Derr. "Venus fly trap. They're ominous and cute all at once. I love playing with those things whenever I go to zoos and gardens. I would totally dig being a Venus fly trap."
27/5 Clare London. "A sweet potato. I like the contrast of cute and sensible :D."
29/5 Marie Sexton. "A lily, because they’re gorgeous, but they’re also tough as hell. They grow in bad rocky soil without much water. That’s impressive."
30/5 Blak Rayne. "Strange question indeed! LOL A cedar tree. Cedars keep the bugs away, they don't shed because they don't have needles, they can grow very big, and they smell nice, plus I love their bowed branches."
Guest posts without mention of plants or next lives:
2/5 Caridad Pineiro.
15/5 Ella Jade.
22/5 Margie Church.
25/5 Jamie Samms.
And what would I be? Well, I'd be rosemary. Because rosemary is hard to kill, doesn't need a lot of care or attention, is adaptable and is great in cooking and in hair care. And it smells nice and relaxes you.
June has started and with it, I broke a toe and got a cold, so I've been feeling pretty sorry for myself. (And not at all rosemary-ish.) Good news, though, is that No Surrender, No Retreat, book two in the Archangel Chronicles has a release date of JULY 25TH, so that's very exciting.
And finally, I'll leave you all with this Kickstarter project link, to make a documentary from footage that was filmed while Andy Whitfield (Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Gabriel) was dealing with his hodgins lymphoma. The doco seeks to raise awareness about cancer as well as be a testamonial to the life of Andy Whitfield.
Be Here Now: The Andy Whitfield Story.
Part of the interviews I did involved asking everyone a variety of questions, (obviously!), but there was one question that I asked everyone I interviewed - if you were a plant in the next life, what would you be and why? Such a wonderful variety of answers, I thought I'd recap the month with everyone's answers to that question, with a link to each interview. (I'll link guest posts at the end.)
And if you want to comment and tell us what sort of a plant you would be in the next life, then please do! The more, the merrier!
Q: If you were a plant in the next life, what would you be and why?
3/5 C. R. Moss. "I'd be an oak tree. Sturdy, beautiful, able to offer shelter to wildlife and shade to people. :)"
4/5 Kim Fielding. "Lavender. It’s pretty and useful and smells nice, hardly any pests bother it, and it can live quite a long time under difficult conditions. It’s not fussy. Who doesn’t like lavender?"
6/5 Hayley B. James. "Oh! What a fun question! I think I’d want to be a lilac bush. I love the smell of lilac flowers."
10/5 Helen Pattskyn. "LOL! I would love to be a belladonna atropa. They’re quietly beautiful (brown flowers that become big black “berries”) and only slightly poisonous (assuming you’re not a small child)."
12/5 RJ Astruc. "I have some lucky bamboo on my balcony, and I love it, it’s so cool and curly. So that’s what I’d go for. I’m going to pretend, of course, that I’d grow that way naturally, and not have to suffer lots of splinting and twisting in the growing process…"
16/5 Leora Stark. "Lavender. I am obsessed with it. I'd be so relaxed all the time!"
19/5 Jacqueline Brocker. "What I'd like to be; daffodil - I just love them so much, bright and always cheerful. But this is not me so much, so I'd probably be something a bit quirkier like, I dunno, a snapdragon. ;)"
20/5 Meredith Shayne. "A cactus, because I'm a bit fleshy, a bit prickly, and hard to kill."
24/5 Megan Derr. "Venus fly trap. They're ominous and cute all at once. I love playing with those things whenever I go to zoos and gardens. I would totally dig being a Venus fly trap."
27/5 Clare London. "A sweet potato. I like the contrast of cute and sensible :D."
29/5 Marie Sexton. "A lily, because they’re gorgeous, but they’re also tough as hell. They grow in bad rocky soil without much water. That’s impressive."
30/5 Blak Rayne. "Strange question indeed! LOL A cedar tree. Cedars keep the bugs away, they don't shed because they don't have needles, they can grow very big, and they smell nice, plus I love their bowed branches."
Guest posts without mention of plants or next lives:
2/5 Caridad Pineiro.
15/5 Ella Jade.
22/5 Margie Church.
25/5 Jamie Samms.
And what would I be? Well, I'd be rosemary. Because rosemary is hard to kill, doesn't need a lot of care or attention, is adaptable and is great in cooking and in hair care. And it smells nice and relaxes you.
June has started and with it, I broke a toe and got a cold, so I've been feeling pretty sorry for myself. (And not at all rosemary-ish.) Good news, though, is that No Surrender, No Retreat, book two in the Archangel Chronicles has a release date of JULY 25TH, so that's very exciting.
And finally, I'll leave you all with this Kickstarter project link, to make a documentary from footage that was filmed while Andy Whitfield (Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Gabriel) was dealing with his hodgins lymphoma. The doco seeks to raise awareness about cancer as well as be a testamonial to the life of Andy Whitfield.
Be Here Now: The Andy Whitfield Story.
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