She was a conscientious mother with three younger children: at 6 o'clock, when his games were getting under way, she was feeding supper to my younger brothers and me, and at 8, when they ended, she was putting us to bed.
One, Village of Hope, which has 29 severely disabled children, who were being fed gruel for supper during a recent visit, said it had never received a single basket.
The turkey was blessed and fed a last supper of organic grain before it was killed and priced accordingly.
Ilona told Thomaz to make himself comfortable on the leather couch, while she disappeared into the kitchen and fed the cat its supper from a tin can.
Upstairs, Hector strips Katy and ties her to a chair, while Tabitha feeds Andras his "last supper": rusks and baby milk, the only food he can manage.
And then off to feed the pigs again, have supper, shut up the chickens and geese, do the washing up, get the kids to bed and change the bandage on my gammy knee.
Really, the barbecue is just another agreeable weapon in the thinking cook's arsenal, more appropriate for a family lunch or friends over for supper than for feeding the whole village/street/cricket team.
Many men are stuck in the "old days" way of thinking, and expect women to do the housework and cook supper, while also feeding, bathing and getting the kids put to bed.
As I was breastfeeding my baby at that time, the image of Jesus feeding his friends at the last supper, and then the church for generations and generations, had a profound resonance for me.
And judging by the last supper, the miracle of feeding thousands with two fish and a bread loaf, and the dining with tax collectors and prostitutes, Jesus was all about large dinners with a cross-section of people.
