Friday's Feast - #185 AND Friday Fill-ins

Appetizer
What does the color dark green make you think of?
Just now, it made me think of a coat my sister had when I was a teenager, and when she stopped wearing it, she passed it on to me. I thought it was so elegant. It was dark green, stiff velvety fabric, and it had a dark green "fur" collar. It was warm and felt wonderful. I wore it until the day a woman with the word cheap written all over her admired it as I stood at a bus stop. Never wore it again.
Soup
How many cousins do you have?
How many cousins do you have?
I need my fingers and toes, and back to my fingers to work that out. Four Touhys, three Horrigans, three Quanes, one Coughlan, three O'Farrells, three Eatons (that's on my mother's side). And then three Maguires and seven Hipwells on my father's side. That's 27. I'm in trouble if I counted wrong!
My sister is the eldest of all those grandchildren on my mother's side, and now that all my aunts are gone, and my Mum's in a nursing-home, she's become the matriarch of the clan. She keeps in touch with everyone, organises gatherings, passes on news of happenings. Most of my cousins are now parents, so there are second-cousins to be added to the list, but that would be too much! So I won't. I love getting together with cousins, because they're people who know where you come from. We shared so much in childhood, it's common ground, and for many of them, having lost their parents now, it's really important for them to still have that link.
Salad
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how honest are you?
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how honest are you?
I'm a 10, but only in appropriate situations. I mean, I don't share everything with everyone, but what I say, I mean. I might say nothing, but sometimes that's saying a lot!
Main Course
Name something that is truly free.
Well.... "Money can't buy me love", can it?
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12 Comments:
Hi! Just found you via Friday's Feast. I'm going to use these questions today, hope that's ok?
(I'm English, living in Ireland btw)
Have a wonderful time with your sisters and the SoulCollage too, obviously!
Johnny boy, how I miss you. Sigh...
Welcome to the Friday Fill-Ins; I enjoyed the Kite Runner, too. What's a SoulCollage(R)? Thanks for playing!
I'm looking forward to reading The Kite Runner ;0)
Sounds like you have an enjoyable weekend planned. Happy Friday!
The coat was sounding so good to me...ah well!
Nice feast!
Very good with that sentence thing! I don't think I would have figured it out...I think I would have just come up with a sentence with the word "Spring" in it! lol!
BTW: The rest of "The Tour" is up!
Oh yes, you are wise to treasure those you make you laugh. Happy Weekend!!!
SoulCollage and a visit with family sounds wonderful -
Wishing you a lovely weekend, Imelda!
Have fun while your gone.
I think The Kite Runner was the last really good book I read, as well. I read his othe rone right after, and it was okay, but not as good.
:)
I loved Kite Runner also!
I love your Friday memes, but I never feel as if I am clever enough to actually answer those questions. Maybe someday.....
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