Meme about favourites.

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

There's a meme over at Facebook and I thought it was ripe for moving over here: Ask me my top 5 [blanks].

Anything which I might have five favourites of, fill I the blank however you want, and I'll endeavour to answer.

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[rmc28]

foods

[gerald_duck]

Fabrics

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Shot taffeta is my favourite, the kind that's two different colours according to how the light hits it.
For sewing, I like patterned poly cotton or knit Jersey.
I love chenille but it doesn't last long.
I came to velvet late, hated it as a child, but like it for both crafting and wearing now.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Ooh, difficult because it depends on my mood, but I think this is a good overview?
1. A good fry up. Sausage, mushrooms, bacon, poached eggs, black pudding, white pudding, kidneys, toast not fried bread, I am indifferent to potatoes in this context.
2. Bananas! Just as they are, or sliced with custard, or mashed into a sarnie, or in fritters or fried with bacon and then in a sandwich.
3. Stick toffee pudding, full of dates and covered with gooey sauce, like the nuns at St Dominic's convent, Stone make it.
4. Soft boiled eggs with fingers thickly spread with butter.
5. Anything new.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Animals!

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Dogses are best! I also love Snow Leopards. Rats and bearded dragons are both cute and friendly and relatable. For my fifth choice, I admit that some of my favourite people are human.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

...is the right answer!

[hooloovoo_42]

Archers characters

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Goodness, I haven't listened for ages! I liked Usha. Hayley used to be nice but I gather she maybe got eaten by the personality fairy? Amy seems alright. Nelson, of course, was always fabulous.

[hooloovoo_42]

Under the recently departed editor, a lot of characters either moved away or have not been heard of recently. Hayley moved to Birmingham and hasn't been heard for 2 or 3 years. Usha lost her voice, although I think she may have spoken recently. Nelson is clearly still alive and well in South America! Amy hasn't even been mentioned for years.

[liv]

Items of jewellery?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

My engagement ring, which we picked out together after going in every jewelers in Cambridge. I didn't have sapphires in mind when we started, but we found ourselves choosing between two sapphire rings. My MIL also had a sapphire ring.

Wedding ring, which matches Colin's. Even though I rarely wear it, I love that it matches and it's exactly hw I always imagined my ring would be. Plus the whole symbolism of it as the thing which Colin married me with.

My engagement ring from Jon. I lost it years ago, and he looked for a replacement at the time, but couldn't find one the same. Again, it matches his, which he keeps on his keyring, so you can take a look some time if you like. Very simple, just a twist of gold and a blue topaz, but that relationship was a big part of my life and it's a symbol of that.

My tree pendant that you gave me, it's so evocative of growing together and makes me think of you.

The pendant that matches MIL's engagement ring, which she gave me when she stopped wearing jewellery because it also sort of matches mine. I'm sorry you didn't get to meet her, she was wonderful.

(There's other stuff Colin's given me, too, and Tom, and other people, and things I have just because.)

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