Put your thinking cap on. Grab a cuppa, your pad and a pencil. Now, our question is: What are some of your favourite things? Please feel free to share two or three from your list and enter them in the comments. It would be interesting to see how many would be similar…
What is your favourite thing?
Definition of Favourite.
According to the Chambers 21st Century Dictionary:
As an adjective: best liked; preferred. As a noun: a favourite person or thing; someone unfairly preferred or particularly indulged. And in sport: a horse or competitor expected to win.
List.
On your list you created, what things did you list? Was it people, places, things you eat or drink? As I said, it would be interesting to see what was similar. Some things that come to mind are coffee or is it tea or something else? A café. A seat on a train. A place you walk. As you can see, we could end up with an exhaustive list…
Watching People.
When I am out and about, I usually watch people and not in some “morbid” way. People are interesting subjects. As we know, everyone’s born and everyone will die. It’s the in-between bits that are different. I find it strange or maybe it’s weird or is it just me, about human traits.
Favourite.
When, let’s say your favourite table at your favourite cafe is taken by someone else! What goes on in that person’s head? I just wonder! But I’m like that… silly things to fill the day. Why is there the favourite table at first? Every table is roughly the same. But I do know some tend to wobble a bit. The view from a different table will change for a start. As the saying goes: “A change is as good as a holiday.” I still find it interesting and never can understand why someone can get so upset. All it does is mess with the rest of one’s day!
Thinking.
All of this got me thinking about all the people currently in my family tree. I have about 1600 plus and growing. What would each of these people have had as a favourite?
A child, a pet, a place to relax, a place to hide, a place to go on holiday, a place to shop, maybe even a favourite colour. One thing I do know is: I’ll never know! Who makes a favourite list for future generations to find years and years from now?
We could start a trend! Would the favourite “thing” change year by year?
Relatives.
When I look back to those I knew of my relatives when growing up, I do remember trends. I remember my mum tending towards a favourite dress and her favourite hairstyle.
I don’t recall any real favourite sayings. Although as I write, I remember her father used to always say “Wasters.” I never really understood what this meant. Was it that he was referring to people who were wasting their lives or food or something else? I think I should stop thinking about this!!
Stories.
My paternal grandfather always had stories. I never recalled him repeating one though.
They would be similar but not the same. His laugh was infectious. I can even hear him now. Oh, and his wife, my grandmother, just yelled out: “Alf make tea”, as she’d always say whenever anyone arrived. She had a tribe of kids, so you can imagine when and if they all descended at the same time, what would happen…
My Favourite Things.
So, here I am stuck with Julie Andrews in the “Sound of Music” singing “My Favourite Things”, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Okay, now that I have everyone’s attention and you have that song in your head, maybe for the rest of your day, I hope you now have a pleasant memory that you had forgotten about. How many of you headed off to, let’s say YouTube to play the clip…
Your Favourite Things…
Enjoy…
Spelling.
Now, a side note with my spelling. I live in Australia.
I spell these words with a “U” in them: Favourite as in F A V O U R I T E. Colour as in C O L O U R and Mum – M U M.
I have not SPELT, and that’s not spelled, them incorrectly…
Enjoy your day…
Explore & Discover…
Acknowledgements:
Definition of Favourite: Chambers 21st Century Dictionary. https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=Favourite&title=21st Accessed 22 Aug 2026
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Make a list of your favourite things and share. We’d love to see home many “things” we all have in common… You start and I’ll add more later…
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