Welcome to this week’s blog hop. Today the topic is:
They’re making an action figure of you. Describe the toy and accessories. (Do you have a catch phrase? Favourite items, clothes, hair style?)
First of all the action figure would have lots of curly hair. Thankfully it’s a bit thinner now that I’m in my sixties, but when I was 17 I could have done a passable impression at a fancy dress party of King Charles II. I had glasses then but wouldn’t wear them all the time.
I have Lockdown hair at the moment, but tomorrow I shall get a haircut. I’ll ask for it to be short and layered, which tends to stop the frizz. It’ll also be dyed to a colour that’s a bit lighter than the natural dark brown it used to be in the photo below. I don’t wear make-up, and prefer the natural look.
Here I am below on Good Friday 2021 with aforesaid Lockdown hair and my newest grandson. I’ve got more sense now and keep my glasses on so that I can actually see.
More often than not I wear trousers, sweatshirts or tee-shirts, and trainers or ankle boots. Some of my clothes get given to me by my eldest granddaughter when she outgrows them, so I’m a groovy granny. Other times I like long bohemian-like tunics that go with leggings.
I hate handbags with a passion, and always carry a rucksack. In this way I have two free hands. If I wear a coat, there will be a little bottle of water in one of the pockets, as I have no working salivary glands. If it’s too hot for a coat, I’ll either carry the mini bottle of water or put it in the rucksack. Inside the rucksack you’ll find a phone, my purse, spare sunglasses just in case, loads of tissues for my watery right eye, a bigger bottle of water to pour into the little one when it’s empty, and my Kindle if I’m going on a long car journey. In the height of summer there will also be a little battery-operated fan in there.
If I see somebody I know I tend to say ‘How’s it going?’ to start a conversation. My friend of 45 years still remembers me shouting this up the stairs to her when I used to arrive at her house while she was upstairs getting ready for one of our discos.
Oh, and don’t forget my bike. I’m often cycling around the country lanes in Suffolk or disused railways on the Isle of Wight. I’m an active granny who loves to be outside. I tend to just blog in the summer, but write novels in the winter when it’s colder and more preferable to be indoors.
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Stevie Turner 
You described yourself wonderfully, Stevie! What a lovely grandson. Michael
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Thanks Michael.
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Loved the how you portrayed yourself…
Please check out my post when you get time..
https://thatimperfectlady.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/mirror-mirror-1/
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Great 80s hair!
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Seventies unfortunately…
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A “head” of your time. I remember hair… I even remember complaining about it misbehaving!
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Thanks Lela.
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I enjoyed you depiction of yourself as an action figure, Stevie. I will join today and, if I can get the link to add me this week, I’ll share to the party.
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Great. Thanks Robbie.
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I am listening to the water drip off the roof in anticipation of spring, but there’s no much action here right now. To walk on the streets requires cleats and to go off road requires snowshoes. Soon though. My daughter gave me her bicycle a couple of years ago and I try to give it a workout in the summer.
I just think action figures of novelists is something of an oxymoron. All the action is inside our heads until it makes it to the page.
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Never heard of ‘cleats’. I’ll have to look that word up.
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Ice spikes — kind of like what golfers where on their shoes.
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I think we call them crampons.
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My hairstyle hasn’t changed since high school. Oh, I’ve tried different things, but none of them feel like “me.” I always come back to long, straight hair
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Mine hasn’t changed much since HS either. It was shorter, but curly in high school and then everybody did the feathered boob look, so I grew it out to express my individuality. In those days, straightening was done with an actual clothes iron and my mom forbid me to use her iron to scorch my hair, so I started curling it with hot rollers to kill the frizz, but then in college, the spiral perm came into vogue. A friend who was a hairdresser said “But you’ve got the look without spending $100 and two hours in my chair, so buy some hair product and enjoy.” I got lots of compliments and Michelle got lots of customers who never quite got my hairstyle from her expensive treatments. But I still had to put it in a braid or bun pretty often because curly hair acts like it’s alive. It came in handy in near-survival situations. A hank of my hair makes great firestarter — even in the rain and it’s so curly nobody notices the contribution.
My son is dating an Islander girl, so he decided to grow his curly hair out too and Sheri KNOWS curly hair, so I finally found some products that give me a consistent look — curly without being frizzy — except when it’s raining. Curly hair and moisture are like matter and anti-matter.
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Oh yes, the moisture. I hate fine drizzle. My hair literally explodes!
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Mine tries to take over a neighboring country. Canada objects. It could cause an international incident if the wind is blow toward the west. Russia is very protective of its borders and my hair is like an invading force.
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Lol! Mine too.
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An action figure of me, that is so funny. It would be a short person with glasses, reddish-brown hair cut in a short bob, carrying a book in one hand and a pen in the other. Not very exciting and not much action.
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You’ll have to get your pen to scribble very fast, lol.
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PS. Perhaps that will be the next WordPress New Idea – every blogger to have an action Domain doll.
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What fun, yes in the unlikely event I was made into an action doll I would have some not very exciting accessories, unless you count some sharp gardening tools and my collection of watering cans. I can’t remember the last time I used a handbag – back packs are so handy and I have a variety of those depending on where I’m going – Writers’ Group Grandma – Beach Hut Grandma – exciting advertising potential!
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I love rucksacks, and have a collection of them. You can stuff so much in them!
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This is brilliant and I’m keen to give it a go! I love that you’re an active granny riding your bike too.
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I am indeed. I’m not one to sit for too long, lol.
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I’ve joined in and written my post for this prompt Stevie. So much fun!
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Great! Thanks for joining in.
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Shared on Twitter, Stevie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks Pete.
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