From The Friday Five for November 26, 2021:

1) Who is your favorite relative?It used to be either my mother, or my Aunt Isie, her sister. My mother always said Aunt Isie was just like me, and in many ways it was true. Since their deaths, by choice would be a cousin - I have few relatives and even fewer still living, but my cousins are a great ( Read more... )

From The Friday Five:
1) What is your favorite mode of travel? (Car, train, plane, etc).

Boat. Canoe, rowboat, yacht, ocean line - anything on water.

2) Where is the northernmost place you've traveled? The southernmost?

Northernmost: North Ronaldsay, in Scotland, which is at 59o37'N. I had to look up Moosonee, Ontario, to see where it falls, but it ( Read more... )

I haven't done a Friday Five in a long time, so here you are:

Theme: International Travel

1. You have the summer and plenty of money to travel abroad. Where would you go?

1. The Channel Islands, or the Sheltands, or the Isle of Man
   
2. Bayeux
   
3. Nepal
   
4. Cardiff (guess why?)
   
5. Yorkshire, Durham, the Lake District, and, of course, Hadrian's Wall
   
6. Sicily, or ( Read more... )

From thefridayfive:

1. What is your fave thing about Christmas?
People smile ( Read more... )

Got this from dargie and namastenancy:

1. If you could suddenly speak one language fluently (that you don't currently speak) what would it be? That caveat "that you don't currently speak" makes it difficult. I was just saying the other day how I'd like to be vocally fluent in Latin, which few people are. But technically I "speak" it in that I can read passages ( Read more... )