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Post by Mari on Sept 14, 2024 5:31:41 GMT
941600 It's Saturday! Our youngest has ballet class and in the afternoon we're going to tour a church and go to a welcome home party for Peter's cousin
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Post by Kye on Sept 14, 2024 11:41:50 GMT
941 599
Sounds a lot more fun than my Saturday --I'll be cleaning my house all day
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Post by JoeP on Sept 24, 2024 7:53:16 GMT
941 598
I am very tired.
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Post by Kye on Sept 24, 2024 12:35:23 GMT
941 597
Tu eres muy cansado (I'm brushing up on my Spanish via Duolingo --this is a very common prompt)
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Post by Mari on Sept 25, 2024 12:29:32 GMT
941596 No habla Espanol. Esta muy bien. I started a Spanish course a long time ago too, but I've forgotten most of it. Italian stuck a bit better. Maybe because of 5 years of Latin classes.
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Post by Kye on Sept 25, 2024 15:47:01 GMT
941 595
I find Spanish more or less doable since I speak French and there are a lot of cognates. I'm absolutely hopeless in German though (and I'm sure I'd also suck in Dutch)
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Post by tangent on Sept 25, 2024 22:05:08 GMT
941 594 Pat bought a tin of Ambrosia custard thinking it was rice pudding Neither of us knew until 5 minutes ago that Ambrosia sold custard. (Ambrosia is a make that is virtually synonymous with rice pudding in the UK.)
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Post by tangent on Sept 30, 2024 17:26:16 GMT
941 593 Thanks Google Maps for telling me the next bus is due in 10 minutes but please warn me, in future, if the next bus is a school bus for schoolchildren only
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Post by Mari on Oct 1, 2024 5:43:58 GMT
941 595 I find Spanish more or less doable since I speak French and there are a lot of cognates. I'm absolutely hopeless in German though (and I'm sure I'd also suck in Dutch) 941 592 I feel that the more languages you know, the easier it is to understand a new one (because you can get meanings from correlated languages), yet the harder it gets to speak a new one we'll (because you keep throwing words from another language in without you realising)
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Post by tangent on Oct 1, 2024 9:05:10 GMT
941 591
I studied French for five years, Latin for four and German for 1½ years but my capability of using any of those languages disappeared very quickly because I was never in a position to use them. It was nearly 30 years before I visited France - flying was very expensive when I was a teenager - and you couldn't walk more than five metres in the town where we went without bumping into an English person. Consequently, the French residents all spoke English with ease and that put me off trying anything but a few common phrases, "my hovercraft is full of eels," and such like.
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Post by Mari on Oct 2, 2024 7:17:42 GMT
941590 Yes, I can see how that would be a useful phrase. *Nods seriously*
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Post by Mari on Oct 3, 2024 19:56:12 GMT
941589 My youngest is going to school tomorrow for the first time. It's just an adjustment day, she'll start for real in a week.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 3, 2024 20:01:55 GMT
941 588
I hope she has a good time!
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Post by tangent on Oct 3, 2024 20:11:07 GMT
941 587 It's just an adjustment day... For you or her?
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Post by tangent on Oct 4, 2024 18:23:25 GMT
941 586
Why does painting the window frames outside the house take five times as long as I think it will take?
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Post by Mari on Oct 5, 2024 10:35:35 GMT
941 587 It's just an adjustment day... For you or her? 941585 For her. She had fun, bit it was also a bit scary. And she was veeeeeery tired afterwards.
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Post by tangent on Oct 5, 2024 12:35:07 GMT
941 584
First day in any new situation can be very tiring even for adults. I hope she enjoyed it.
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Post by Mari on Oct 6, 2024 17:24:17 GMT
942583 She can't wait to go again, so that should work out okay.
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Post by Mari on Oct 6, 2024 17:32:21 GMT
941582 Peter just ran out after getting a call for help with a resuscitation. Here in the Netherlands everyone can do a course for it cheaply and afterwards you're asked to join the citizens group for resuscitation. You will be alarmed if 911 gets a call in your area to either go to the victim, go get a resuscitation device or go aid the ambulance. I refused to join since I don't think I can handle it, but Peter did join. I'm very proud of him doing so.
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Post by Mari on Oct 9, 2024 6:53:43 GMT
941581 It's Wednesday. I'm ill with a serious head cold. It feels like my head is one big bubble of snot ready to explode. Yes, it's a nice visual I'm leaving for y'all.
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Post by Kye on Oct 9, 2024 11:53:56 GMT
941 580 Thanks, Mari!
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Post by Mari on Oct 9, 2024 13:50:40 GMT
941759 You're welcome. It's my only relief at the moment
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Post by JoeP on Oct 9, 2024 14:20:31 GMT
941 578
Hope you recover soon!!
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Post by tangent on Oct 10, 2024 9:54:56 GMT
941 577 The BBC Weather app is forecasting hurricane force winds in the UK. Today and tomorrow, the wind speed will be more than 15000 mph, they say (There is also an apology for 'issues' in their forecasting data.)
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Post by Elis on Oct 10, 2024 12:03:07 GMT
941 576
We were supposed to get storms, but we mostly have rain.
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Post by Mari on Oct 10, 2024 12:52:58 GMT
941575 We had a stiff breeze and sudden pourdowns that lasted all of 5 seconds, but that was it so far.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 10, 2024 18:58:23 GMT
941 574
We had *lots* of rain yesterday.
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Post by maurusian on Oct 11, 2024 9:14:31 GMT
941 573 I thought this countdown would be done by now.
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Post by tangent on Oct 11, 2024 10:31:16 GMT
941 572
No, at one point I forecast it would take less than 200 years but now I think it's millennia.
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Post by Kye on Oct 11, 2024 10:31:34 GMT
941 571
Sigh. As if...
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