bits and bobs: A random assortment of things; small remaining pieces and things
If you were to go on a solo vacation anywhere in the world, where would you go and how long would you go for?
If you could only eat 1 type of fruit for an entire year. What would you choose? {Me? Bananas.}
What are the last 2 movies you saw in a movie theather? {Me? Bridget Jones’ Baby, Little Women.}
What color are your bath towels? Are they all one color, striped, or a hodge podge of a bunch of different colors? {Ours are…. wait for it…. all white.} 🙂
Yes. These are the things I think about when I have too much time on my hands.
Carry On,
~ Mavis
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JenL says
Italy for 3 months and you still couldn’t explore everything it has to offer.
Apples
The Menu and Black Adam
All one color, dark brown
Mark says
1) Daytona Beach, Florida in February for several weeks so I could catch a few races and hopefully some rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center
2) Bananas
3) The Grinch and White Christmas back in December
4) Hod Podge because I seem to redo my bathroom before I can wear out the towels.
Diana says
Good morning!
1) Ireland/Scotland for at least 2 months, most likely more (isn’t there a 6 month visa max?)
2) Strawberries
3) It’s been over 20 years since I’ve been to a movie theater so , hmmm… Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
4) Each bathroom has a color scheme, lol. The one I use the most has white towels. Hodpodge in the other 2.
Erin says
1) Ireland or Montana
2) Blueberries
3) Dark Waters – at the $1 theater haha!
4) Well, the towels were gifted to us when we were married nearly 20 years ago, so….light green, light tan, & pale blue. But they will be white when we replace them after our move this year. Although, I’ve been tempted to buy some Turkish towels, which are usually stripes from what I’ve seen.
Katie says
I’m a Montanan who visits Ireland regularly. Good choices!
Erin says
You’re living my dream!
Susie says
We love our beautiful Turkish towels!
Angie says
1. A secluded island in the Bahamas for one week. Just me, all the books I want to read, podcasts I want to listen to, cold beverages, naps, and suntan lotion.
2. Apples
3. The Grinch….4 Christmases ago?
4. Our towels are mostly gray but we have a few white, a few pink, and a few assorted combo of those colors as well. We also have blue and gray for our son’s bathroom.
JamieH says
1) The hebrides in Scotland for at least a month maybe 3.
2) Avocado, it is biologically a fruit
3) The only one I can remember is a run of Casablanca.
4) White towels. That’s all my grandmother had and it’s all I will use!
CherylV says
1. Hawaii, although I have been wanting to take a train trip into the Canadian Rockies. I’d like to be gone about 3 weeks or so.
2. Cherries
3. Probably some war movie, Dunkirk? Has been a long time since I was in a movie theater
4. Dark blue and light green, matches the shower curtain
Patti Vanderbloemen says
1] a secluded cabin in the Mountains…any mountains will do, though prefer snow-capped
2) Apples
3) I only remember one..The Passion of Christ
4). Each bathroom is color coordinated, one is all white!
Karen A. says
1) Ireland and Cornwall (and possibly Wigtown, Scotland as well). I’d love to go for weeks!
2) Apples
3) I honestly can’t remember. I stopped going to movie theaters before Covid, so maybe…Spiderman in the Spider-verse? Or Avengers: Endgame (again, with the kids).
4) All white, easier to bleach!
Rosemary Calhoun says
1) I am not much of a “traveling” person and I would rather have someone with me to enjoy it with. But I do enjoy shopping alone . . . so maybe somewhere there are lots of outlets.
2) Mango
3) Saw Toy Story with the granddaughters in 2019
4) gray and purple in 1st bathroom
gray in 2nd bathroom
brown and beige in 3rd bathroom (this bathroom gets the discards from the other bathrooms)
Lynn says
1. Love to go to England but, for a solo trip, a long weekend in a small town in coastal New England.
2. Blueberries
3. Top Gun Maverick and It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Greens, beiges and whites.
Erin says
1. Switzerland – I’ve traveled alone and a week or 2 is about perfect
2. Strawberries
3 avatar
4 each bathroom has its own color. The hodgepodge towels are for pool use since all the neighbor kids tend to take them home with them.
Michelle says
1 – Solo road trip across the US, stopping where I want, when I want!
2 – I don’t like fruit, so none!
3 – Finding Nemo and Toy Story 3.
4 – Hodge podge towels.
Jennifer says
I would take a week in a small Italian village in the Alps. The food, the views, the serenity.
I’m not much for fruit (I know, I know), especially after COVID took most of my taste, but probably bananas.
Dh and I saw Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018. We were living in a small mountain town and the theater was in an old Dollar General with a huge screen and the seats were individual armchairs, love seats and a few couches. I think it seated 40 total, maybe. Cool concept and great prices. $5 matinees, bottled sodas for $1, popcorn was cheap and you could even bring in food from the restaurants on that street.
Our towels are a deep green with some blue tint, so they are less of a hunter green and maybe a tealish color. I buy towels every 5 years or so and this last go round I went a little crazy. Kohl’s was having a sale on their Big One towels and after a discount and Kohl’s cash, I could get them for $2.45 each. I know, right?!? Crazy price. Because there 5 of us, I always bought 12. I consulted with dh, who said to get more this time, especially at this price. I got 30. The old ones were turned into rags and napkins. I gave some to ds#1 when he moved out and the rest are still sealed in their plastic in the box. There are plenty if ds#2 decides to move out as well.;)
Elle says
1. Greece for a month. Lots of walking, history and food of course 😉
2. Honeycrisp apples (sometimes w/peanut butter
3. Rare, the Star Wars (2017?) and before that likely a Pixar
4. Grey
Mavis Butterfield says
Honeycrisp with peanut butter…..delicious!
Monica says
1. The Maldives
2. Ripe honeydew
3. Black Adam
4. Hodgepodge but, I am starting to have a large collection of grey (microfiber – they are the best)
Margo says
1. Spiritual retreat in the mountains. Other than that I like to share the traveling experience with someone.
2. Probably citrus, since I can walk out to the yard and pick one when I like.
3. Don’t remember, but I think we went once last year. (Do plan on going next week for date day to see the new Tom Hanks movie, does that count?)
4. Hodgepodge of green, beige, blue….whatever was on sale that matched the color scheme at the time.
Maria says
1. Japan. Culture is different and interesting, safe for a solo female traveler. One month.
2. Mangoes.
3. Can’t remember coz it’s been years.
4. Yellow, Light Grey, Beige.
Lynne says
1. I have been taking solo vacations for over 40 years, and my personal favorites have been driving a loop through the southwest US (southern Utah, in particular, is stunning), and overseas, I’m a sucker for the charm of old cities. I’d love to spend time in rural England and Scotland but do not like driving outside of the US and Canada so I would not do that solo. About 2 weeks, plus or minus, is good for me.
2. Apples.
3. Went with family to see the latest Top Gun movie, and before that, I think it was House of Gucci. Meh, and very expensive.
4. Blue towels.
Charla says
1. Florida- water is healing for me
And I’d go for three weeks.
2. This one was hard. Apples but it would be hard to go a whole year without strawberries and watermelon
3. Avatar and ??? I see a lot of movies but don’t keep track very well
Annette says
Do people use only white towels so they can bleached?
Dianne says
Diana
LOL, I had to laugh. Close Encounters came out in 1977 – 46 years ago!! Finding Nemo would of been out in 2003. Along with maybe the Last Pirate of the Caribbean -Black Pearl with Johnny Depp- time is desperately flying too fast!
Jennifer G says
1. England/Scotland/Ireland for 3-4 months. One of my ancestors sailed out of Southhampton for the US in the early 1600’s.
2. Apples as you can eat raw or cook with them.
3. Unsure, most of our viewing is done through streaming.
4. We use a cornucopia of colors, teal, gray, blue, navy with several other colors.
Kath says
1. Denmark – for the ambiance and also I have long lost (lost to me ) relatives there.
2. Apples
3. The Perfect Storm in 2000. Went by myself. It was awesome. Haven’t been to a theater since.
4. Our towels are light blues & tans and combos of the two colors.
Ashley Bananas says
1. I would travel by car or camper and go to the desert in Arizona or Nevada and camp out in the red rocks. I’ve always wanted to do that and look up at stars at night. Might not go alone though. I love my son too much.
2. I love blueberries.
3. A number of months ago there was a special of $3 movies at certain theaters. We watched Where the Crawdads Sing, and the new Minions movie. Before that it was the newest installment of Jurassic Park, which we loved!
4. I have pink towels that go with our bathroom. Before that I had brown towels, and still have them. This Christmas my family bought me a soft blue towel set. They’re pretty.
debbie in alaska says
1. New Zealand for a year (on a work assignment) or cross country here in the US with the only destination goals being national parks and I’d only drive back roads and byways. No highways. And I’d eat at all the diners I could.
2. Mango
3. Top Gun Maverick and Bullet Train
4. Teal and Green hues. Though I see the benefit of white because you can bleach!
Kim says
No desire to travel without my husband.
Raspberries.
Can’t remember the name of the last movie but it was a disappointment.
All matching towels, gray.
MEM says
1. No interest in traveling alone again – did enough of that in my single days and it was lonely. My husband and disabled adult son – and sometimes my daughter – all travel with me. It’s especially good for my son to travel.
2. Watermelon, but only if I could find the seeded kind that has the most flavor.
3. The last in-theater movies would have been Disney Studios or Disney-Pixar, probably Toy Story 4? Maybe Frozen 2?
4. All White towels, with the idea that I could keep them white by bleaching. Doesn’t seem to be working 🙁
Lindsey says
1. Mongolia
2. persimmons
3. Maverick
4. hodge podge. I would feel like I was wasting money to get rid of our oldies to buy matchy-matchy stuff.
Melissa says
I have a grandson living in Mongolia. He loves it. He’s finally fluent in the language.
HollyG says
1. Giethoorn, Netherlands
2. Apples
3. I can’t remember, but it might have been…The Hobbit and Concussion
4. Gray in one bath, Green and Mocha in the other and white flour sack towels in the guest bath
Jamie says
Alpine France for a week for my solo trip. Fruit would be Cosmic Crisp Apples. Last two movies in a theater were Fast and Furious and the Dark Knight. Finally, our towels are solid Navy.
Rebecca Anne says
1) Tulum, Mexico (The water looks like teal look-aid! The beaches have white sand. There are gorgeous palm trees too. And cabanas right on the beach to stay in. There’s a restaurant too. It’s basically paradise!)
2) #1 Figs! And then I love Mangoes. And Apples. Yes to bananas and strawberries too. And grapes. And oranges. And definitely fresh pineapple. This one is hard!! I love fruit.
3) I don’t watch movies, but there are some educational documentaries I’ve enjoyed: Planet Earth, The Biggest Little Farm, He Named Me Malala, are three that come to mind.
4) White towels for hubby and I. Ds #1 has blue
Ds #2 has grey
Linda Sand says
1. I would take a van camping trip in Arizona for most of the winter. Again. I miss my RV community now that I’m not traveling.
2. Canned peaches
3. It’s been way too many years to remember.
4. Dark brown bath towels with a tan hand towel and wash cloths.
Jim D says
1) Scandinavia (all countries), for at least one month
2) Mandarins
3) Midway and TopGun/Maverick
4) Blue, and solid
Elaine says
I would hike the Lake District in England for as long as my legs held out!
I would eat plums!
I’m not a movie person.
Striped
Dianne says
1. U.K.
2. Blueberries
3. Week before Covid lockdown
4. Various in our bath – coordinated in other bathrooms
Debi says
1. I would not need to travel solo as I did that when I was younger.
2. Raspberries #1. I love most fruits so would be difficult for just one.
3. Truthfully last movie theatre pic was Titanic. Give it time, and it’s on television.
4. I have all gray and all blue towels.
Kippy says
Southern France, blueberries, haven’t gone to movie theater in years, blue
Heidi N. says
1) My home state of Michigan during summer or fall (currently live over 1,000 miles away), but would rather travel with dh or the family. Probably 2 or 3 weeks.
2) Apples, hands down.
3) Cars, with my kids 😉
4) 4 sets that we rotate: Navy Blue, Yellow, Hunter Green, and Light/Bright Blue.
Beth says
Ireland, for two weeks
Avitar
Blueberries
Our towels are a mishmash. My favorite towels are the beach towels you get at Costco.
Judy says
1. UK, Ireland, Scotland. At least a month and stay in small old inns and castles.
2. Raspberries
3. Life of Pi
The Shape of water
The Revenant
(all really good)
4. Blue, sea green and white for main bathroom, all white for other small one.
Mary says
Sicily (mom & dad were born there)
To kill a mockingbird
Apples
towels are mishmash
Mimi says
I would love to spend several weeks in New England visiting towns my ancestors lived in beginning in the early 1600’s. I’ve seen photos of their headstones online – would love to visit in person.
It’s a toss-up between blueberries and apples. Apples! No, blueberriies! No, apples!
An Education. It’s been awhile.
Various shades of solid blue.
SueD says
UK, starting in London, for at least a month. Family and friends, and we’d go on spontaneous trips all about.
Apples, specifically Cox’s Pippins or Granny Smith.
SW:The Last Jedi; SW: The Rise of Skywalker
Cream in the full bathroom, white in the half bath. Need to replace the cream ones soon.
Jeni says
Definitely would love to travel the United Kingdom. I don’t enjoy flying at all so I’d strongly consider taking the QE2 over and back.
Oranges would be my fruit of choice
Movies are The Chosen and Top Gun: Maverick
I have hodge podge towels: stripes, solids, floral, whatever
Michelle S. says
1) Austria. I would go for 3-4 weeks. I spent a week there and l couldn’t even scratch the surface. There are so many incredible places to go and see, and the food is amazing!
2) Apples
3) Top Gun: Maverick
Singin’ In the Rain (our local. theater shows old films sometimes)
4) Coral and White patterned
Silkifae says
Coastal Maine or Coastal Oregon, but not by myself. Have never gone alone and that doesn’t appeal to me. I’m only good for 2 weeks away and then I need to return home.
Melons (heirloom variety due to flavor)
Passion of the Christ
Main floor guest bath is plum, basement guest bath is matching mishmash,
master bath is non matching mishmash…and all must be in excellent condition…once they become worn they are repurposed to cleaning, everyday napkins, face cloths, etc.
Katherine says
Ireland and Scotland 4 weeks minimum
Watermelon
Fast and Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw and Avengers Endgame
light gray towels
Angela Muller says
Traveling alone is not for the faint of heart! Choose an activity based trip….example cooking in Italy, France, etc. This type of trip involves groups and often off-site activities. You’ll learn something new and make new friends.
Perhaps an activity relating to your interests, or something you’d like to experience!
Patty P says
1. Alaska. I might stay for a week or the rest of my life.
2. Peaches (but they would have to be sun ripened right off the tree)
3. Little Women and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
4. A little bit of everything! Towels are expensive, I take what I can get!
KT says
1. Iceland to see the Northern Lights and Viking relics and Japan to hike and experience a completely different world perspective. I could only stay a week or so, because I would miss my pets and my family.
2. Peaches. So versatile.
3. Movies – went to see The Conjuring 3 twice.
4. Towels are by bathroom color scheme – navy blue in the adult bathroom and charcoal gray in the kids’ / guest bathroom.
Amy Scherer says
1. UK for at least 2 months
2. cherries
3. been so long – don’t remember
4. variety to match different bathrooms
Jackie V says
Ireland or Scotland….2 weeks…
Blueberries
Top Gun & James Bond
Everyone has a different color…even guests & camping towels:-)
Bec says
1. Maybe this isn’t terribly exciting, but I’d love to go spend a few months in DC. I lived there for most of my twenties, but haven’t been back in almost a decade. I’d go see all of my favorite museums again and check out all of the stuff I never made it to. Walk the monuments every night.
2. I love a good peach, but think I’d have to go with apples. I eat one almost every day and never get sick of them.
3. I don’t even know.
4. We have a mishmash. How do you keep whites white?
Stephanie in Utah says
1. Sydney, Australia: a week or two. I went with my husband and we went around the city one day with friends that live there and one by ourselves, and it left me wanting more time to explore.
2. Apples, there are so many varieties
3. Probably Little Women and Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker
4. Hodgepodge. Mostly solid colors, but we still have a pair of towels that we got for our wedding that have blue and purple puppies and kitties and paw prints all over them. I thought that was an odd choice for a wedding gift, but they’re good towels. We use them in the kids’ bathroom they’ve held up for 17 years!
Deb says
Australia for 3 months (I’m already there and come every year)
Blueberries (I eat them almost everyday anyway)
It’s been too many years for me to remember
White….I wash them in hot water and bleach
Liz C says
1) 3 months in Ireland
2) Strawberries
3) Bad Guys and DC League of Super Pets at the drive-in
4) It’s a mishmash of stuff.
Tracy T says
Patagonia for a year
Blueberries
Where the Crawdads Sing & Dog
Solid Gray and Solid White
Candice says
1. Hawaii-my son is in the military and is going there for 2 weeks soon.
2. cherries
3. Avatar with my son and cannot remember what I saw before that.
4. My towels match my bathrooms. Each bathroom has its own set of towels that match its decor. I’m really weird about that and if I change the decor in a bathroom and the towels don’t match, they will go in the rag bin or I give them to someone. Then I buy new towels. I admit I have had some towels for more than 10 years because I haven’t changed the decor or they don’t get used that often. I’ve bought all my towels at the TJ Maxx brand stores and those towels last forever.
LaToya says
Paris, 10 days.
Grapes
Elvis and Where the Crawdads Sing
(we never do the theater, but last summer before my daughter left for college, we hit up some matinee showings on the cheap)
Half gold and half burgundy
SYLVIE says
1 – Cornwall for at least 2 weeks.
2 – Watermelon
3 – Avatar (for the third time, in last september) and Avatar, The Way of Water (in december; one or two more times very soon ! )
4 – Blue and grey.
I love your blog, Mavis, and I’ve been reading it for years. Thanks a lot for all !
Hugs from France,
Sylvie