Hello all! Today is officially the start of winter… so what better time for a little EXTRA sunshine?! Plus these questions are insanely good!! I’m really excited to have been nominated by two of my favourite people on here- Dani @Perspective of a Writer and Nel @Reactionary Tales because that means I get the chance to SHOUT about how much I love them and why you all need to check them out (because you really, really do!) They both run seriously AMAZING blogs and are completely unique, lovely humans!!
(Graphic is by the absolutely amazingly talented Dani– I told you she was cool, didn’t I?)
NB: I’ve been tagged a few other times for this, with different questions, but I’m gonna save those for another time.
Who is the one person that is the sunshine in your life?
I’m gonna say my sister- THE MONKEY BABY!
Do you prefer all happy movies, or occasional sad movies?
It does depend on my mood- still, while I do like the occasional sob over a good movie, I largely stick to happy ones, like a Disney movie or a musical (then again, I class LOTR as happy- not sure I’m always a good measure of what “happy” is…)
What is the one food that always makes you happy?
Chocolate!
What is the sunshine on your blog?
You guys!! 😘
What is your favourite wacky “fun” day?
Oh I’m a party animal- my favourite, wacky fun day would be any day I get off to just lie in bed and read books (preferably while drinking hot chocolate with Baileys- rock on!)
What is one thing you love about yourself?
*Shuffles awkwardly* hard question (what? I’m British!) Ermm my imagination.
What is one think you love about the blogging community?
How friendly you all are!
What is the one book that made you smile the most?
Where is your corner of sunshine in your home?
The balcony (it literally gets a lot of sunshine 😉 also it’s nice to relax on when it’s not cold)
What is your favorite color or colors?

Purple and orange and blue…”
I don’t technically have a favourite, so I’m going with “rainbow”
What is the one movie (or drama) that always makes you happy?
Well, I mentioned this earlier, but Lord of the Rings is my happy film!
I’m going to take a leaf out of Dani’s book and use the same questions, but I’m nominating just a few people who always make me smile (even if this may not be their thing 😉 )
Bookstooge, Lucinda, Carrie, Drew, Michel, Daley and Sam
(as usual no pressure to do it)
So what’s the most sunshiney thing in your life right now? Let me know in the comments!
“What, I’m British” 😂
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hehe sometimes it’s hard being British 😉 😂😂
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I love your answers for these questions. I was tagged by Dani as well and my sister is probably going to be my answer for the person who is the sunshine in my life! 😀 Also yes there is nothing happier than a Disney film is there, when you know there’s going to be a happy ending and it’s all just perfect.
Chocolate is my happy food, honestly I’m really craving it right now, and I definitely love how friendly the blogging community is as well. It’s the best part in my opinion.
Great answers, and great post as well! 😀 ❤
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Oh lovely!! Fantastic 😀 Absolutely!! I so agree with you 😀
haha I know right- I feel like having some too to be honest 😉
I completely agree with you!! 😊😊
Thank you so much!! 😀 ❤
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Great post. I might subvert it over the weekend into a Little Raincloud Award 🙂
Right now, Mrs Bookstooge getting back from California safely is what’s making my sunshine. Amazing what a week of being apart will do…
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hahaha oh my goodness, yes, please do! 🤣🤣
Oh that’s so lovely 😊
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Totally agree with the choice of LOTR! It might have its grim moments and sadness mixed with the joy, but “not all tears are evil.” Tolkien describes it as the “eucatastrophe”:
“I coined the word ‘eucatastrophe’: the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears (which I argued it is the highest function of fairy-stories to produce). And I was there led to the view that it produces its peculiar effect because it is a sudden glimpse of Truth, your whole nature chained in material cause and effect, the chain of death, feels a sudden relief as if a major limb out of joint had suddenly snapped back. It perceives – if the story has literary ‘truth’ on the second plane (….) – that this is indeed how things really do work in the Great World for which our nature is made. And I concluded by saying that the Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story – and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
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One hundred percent agree! I was just explaining to someone else that even though it makes me cry, it’s so uplifting in the end that I absolutely love it and regard it as a “happy” film 😊
And thank you so much for sharing that with me- those are such beautiful words from Tolkien!
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What a great post, and congrats on the well deserved award! 😊😊 I completely agree with you on this community being so friendly. I have made a number of really amazing and beautiful friends here. And that’s what makes blogging so much fun in my opinion.
Thank you so much for nominating me, I really appreciate it a lot 😀😀 Keep up the great and amazing work you are doing 😀
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Thank you so much!! 😊😊Yes, I completely agree with you- it’s definitely what makes it fun!
You’re welcome!! 😀 😀 Really look forward to your post!
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Winter may have arrived but the susnshine still reigns 😄
Really cute post. I think I would class LOTR as a happy movie too!
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hehe yes 😉 Thank you so much!! Excellent!!😊😊
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Christmas movies, be it the old black and white films or the cheesy modern day ones, I dig into them in the days leading up to Christmas. It’s a favorite of mine.
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Ooh yes, that’s an excellent choice!! 😊😊 I love those too!
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Lord of the Rings is your happy film? Makes me nearly ball my eyes out at specific scenes.
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hehe yes, there’s scenes that make me cry every time- and yet I love it for it and it leaves me uplifted 😉
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YAY! Thank you so much for nominating me!!! You’re totally my favourite blogger, you really deserve this award.
Aww, so cute that you and your sister are so close. Please do more shared posts with the monkey baby!
Right now my ray of sunshine (apart from my blog) is my xmas planner – it’s literally the only thing keeping me sane at the moment!
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Aww you’re welcome!! Thank you so much for your kind words 😊😊
Yes, we definitely are 😉 we have the same wacky tastes 😉 And she’s incredibly sweet 😊
hehe oh I can understand that 😉
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Congratulations on our award!
Dwight
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Thanks very much!! 😀
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Congrats on your award!! Yup, you’re a total party animal there. 🙂
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Thank you!! heheheeh I know right 😉
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Congratulations on this award! You are definitely a creative blogger, I really enjoy reading your emotional fantastic reviews! Stephanie Perkins’s book has always been on my radar… I might as well read this book and see if it makes me smile as much as it did to you!
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Thank you so much! You’re really sweet 😀 Ah it’s really lovely- I hope it makes you smile as much as it did for me 😀
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I like that you have many different types of subjects on here to cheer us up! Thats what we need in winter!
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Aww thank you so much!!
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You are always welcome!
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Thanks for the nom! I need to do some catching up with tags but hey, I plan to someday. 🙂
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You’re welcome! And no problem! 🙂
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Congratulations on your award 🙂
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Thank you!! 😀
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Sunshine?! It’s so bright, yellow and sunny! Goes completely against my dark persona!😂
Cool answers and thanks for the tag.
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hehehe I figured you might say something like that 😂😂😂
And yet after all your fluffy bunny poems I beg to differ- JK! I couldn’t even type that with a straight face 😂😂 😉
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Ha!😂 The only thing sunny and bright about Fluffy is that he gets a happy ending – probably lots of happy endings!😂
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hahahahaha 😂😂😂 ROFL!
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Yay! You are the most sunshiney person on WordPress! 😁 Loved all your answers especially LOTR being a happy movie 😂
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Aww thank you!! Honestly that’s how I see you 😁 😁 hehe thanks!! 😀
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Great post and great answers. Well done.
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Thank you!
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Great answers, and congratulations on the award! 😀 Chocolate always makes me happy as well, what would life be without chocolate, haha 😛
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Thank you!! hehehe totally agree 😉
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Aren’t these simple sunshine-y questions the best!!? I love your answers Orangutan!! ❤ Rainbow is the perfect answer…
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Ahh yes I loved these questions- thank you again for tagging me!! ❤ hehe thanks 😉 😀
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Awee all those questions and answers were so sweet and sunshiney 😀
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hehe those questions were so perfect 😀
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Chocolate!!!! Good answer! 😀
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hehe thanks 😉
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We need more Monkey Baby!!!! When is she making a retour en force!!?! 😀
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hahahaha I’ll tell her she’s missed 😉 😂
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