Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 25 Oct 2020, 17:12
Je crois nous sommes d'accord.
Nielsen Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 25 Oct 2020, 17:24
You want us to be serious???
In this place???
Is it time for an old joke:
Saw this one a loooong time ago! Made me smile again, so here you are!
A Guy stuck his head into a barbershop and asked, 'How long before I can get a haircut?'
The barber looked around the shop full of customers and said, 'About 2 hours.' The guy left.
A few days later, the same guy stuck his head in the door and asked,
'How long before I can get a haircut?'
The barber looked around at the shop and said, 'About 3 hours.' The guy left. A week later, the same guy stuck his head in the shop and asked, 'How long before I can get a haircut?*
The barber looked around the shop and said, 'About an hour and a half .' The guy left. The barber turned to his friend and said, 'Hey, Bob, do me a favor. Follow that guy and see where he goes. He keeps asking how long he has to wait for a haircut, but then he doesn't ever come back.'
A little while later, Bob returned to the shop, laughing hysterically. The barber asked, 'So, where does that guy go when he leaves?'
Bob looked up, wiped the tears from his eyes and said,“Your house !!"
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 25 Oct 2020, 20:56
Paul: "I've just finished writing a new song called Hey Jude, but I'm having a bit of trouble with the ending. You guys got any ideas?" John: "Nah" George: "Nah" Ringo: "Nah"
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Wed 28 Oct 2020, 19:06
Temperance when I click on 3 of the Spoof Art, the site is blocked for a very dangerous site. No access anymore to number "3". Is it your latest site...as your name is aside as the latest author...???
Kind regards from Paul.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Fri 30 Oct 2020, 17:56
Ooooh er Matron, 'as our Temps gorn all dangerous? Better stay away for a bit then. With Our Lady of the Site and Paul having something to say about absolutely everything wont be missed.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Tue 10 Nov 2020, 12:20
Triceratops wrote:
Paul: "I've just finished writing a new song called Hey Jude, but I'm having a bit of trouble with the ending. You guys got any ideas?" John: "Nah" George: "Nah" Ringo: "Nah"
Ian Stewart: What's jaggery? Keith Richards: Why man it's Brown Sugar Brian Jones: (stoned)
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Mon 16 Nov 2020, 16:01
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 22 Nov 2020, 17:55
Just a reminder that today (22 November 2020) is the last Sunday before Advent and so traditionally it is "Stir-up Sunday" or "Pudding Sunday" … the last day to make your Christmas puddings if they’re to be ready for the up-coming Christmas celebrations.
The term "Stir-up Sunday" comes from the opening words of the collect for the day in Cranmer’s 1549 Book of Common Prayer:
Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
... thus providing a handy reminder for all chefs, cooks, housekeepers and housewives - whether religious or not - to attend to their Christmas puddings. So unless you’ve already done so I suggest you need to get busy mixing your puds today ... and don't forget to sample all the rum and brandy before they go into the mix, and then make a wish as you stir.
I haven't been making Christmas puddings today but I have been busy in the kitchen all afternoon. On Wednesday one of the village hunter lads called by with a present of boar meat. It could hardly have been any fresher: it had been shot about midday, just down the valley from me (I heard the shots) and when delivered a few hours later in the early afternoon - now skinned and gutted but still in a single unbutchered chunk (I got a back quarter, weighing about 8kgs total, including bones) - it was still warm and rigor had yet to set in. I kept it in the guests' fridge until this weekend, but today have now reduced it down to five 1kg freezer baggies of prime meat, plus another kilo or so of assorted trimmings and bits, with which I've made a raised (hot water pastry) game pie, augmented with some bits of left-over rabbit and plenty of wild mushrooms. (Plus I rendered the bones down to get about a litre of excellent stock).
And I've also bottled up the first of my sloe gin and boozy apricot vodka. So this evening the drinks are on me.
When he passed by on Wednesday the hunter chap - he's the lad that works for the village council - spotted a large Asian hornet nest in a tree at the bottom of my garden: I hadn't noticed it until he pointed it out to me. So on Friday he came around again, this time with the pest control man who was treating all the nests in the village (normally it is the householder that has to pay but our village council has agreed to pay all costs, and anyway the whole 'procedure' only took about 15mins). As I say the nests of these invasive and very destructive beasties (the bastards eat honey bees) are really impressive ... my nest is, I reckon, about 80cms tall by 50cms diameter, but I can't directly measure it as it's still very firmly attached to a branch, high up in the tree:
So all in all another reason to raise a glass; both in anticipation of the forthcoming Christmas festivities and hopefully now for a hornet-free New Year.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Mon 23 Nov 2020, 13:41
Cranmer - he was the best. Thank you for his pudding quote, MM, mon petit carnivore!
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Mon 23 Nov 2020, 15:32
That was fun 23rd November is Doctor Who Day, so have spent the afternoon watching "The Sea Devils" from 1972, with Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning and Roger Delgado:
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Thu 03 Dec 2020, 15:54
Guess who's won an election in Namibia. And all the time he was supposed to be hiding in South America.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 05 Dec 2020, 13:35
Trike - I experienced being in 'thundersnow' about 12 years ago in County Down, Northern Ireland. It was seemingly a unique experience for the locals too as they said they had never known it before either. At that time we described it as being 'an electric snowstorm' for want of a better term. It was absolutely terrifying. Being out for a walk when it struck, one felt extremely vulnerable. Quite apart from anything else, one also thought that the snow underfoot would act as a perfect conductor for the lightning. I'd imagine, however, that that's probably nonsense both in terms of meteorology and physics.
nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 05 Dec 2020, 13:55
In Norway during the winter it's referred to as "Tuesday". (Thursdays might be deemed more appropriate, I know, but that would only confuse things - there is no correlation between snow, thunder, jellied fish and suicides that we know of).
When you think about it there is absolutely no reason why precipitation of the snow variety should not occasionally occasion excited ions and electrostatic discharge. All you need is one area of rapidly upward moving air which is, after all, also a feature of how snow is made anyway. However what is strange is for the "anvil" to achieve any great size (the spreading layer of ice crystals in the upper part of the event) since the base temperature of the "warmer" region below is typically rather cold anyway during winter. The very familiar effect instead, here anyway, is more something that sounds like muffled automatic fire in the distance rather than one loud bang with practically no visual effect at all.
I would put the phenomenon as experienced in Edinburgh down to the natural warmth of Edinburghians at ground level, but I've been amongst them.
Nielsen Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Thu 17 Dec 2020, 15:27
A propos nothing really, yet I'm wondering why so many of the ads shown to me here - when I consequently and constantly de-select every possible 'cookie' so the ads ought not to be personalized for me - most often show what the prize of hearing aids are in a neighbouring town, and how to lower the costs of my funeral. I'd rather enjoy a nice glass of port, and that I'm off the rat-race.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Thu 17 Dec 2020, 17:01
Nielsen wrote:
A propos nothing really, yet I'm wondering why so many of the ads shown to me here - when I consequently and constantly de-select every possible 'cookie' so the ads ought not to be personalized for me - most often show what the prize of hearing aids are in a neighbouring town, and how to lower the costs of my funeral. I'd rather enjoy a nice glass of port, and that I'm off the rat-race.
Niels, don't say it to me. Every two seconds a new one, or several ones as I constantly change of window. I am already used as a reflex to eliminate them immediately. It is really anoying. But I guess, it has it all to do with the price to have the forum in that Norse distribution channel? In the commercial TV and now even in BBC First (with the subtitles of the country where it is distributed) you have it nearly each quarter of an hour and the trick is to put it on your distribution channel's hard disc and to speed up the advertisements to 64 times...
I suppose that it all has to do with the price that nordmann has to pay to read our utterings, our conversations and even balderdash, especially mine. I am still grateful to him that he maintains the forum and even pays for it. A belated thank you nordman from Paul.
And Nielsen even in this virtual environment: Season's Greetings and "santé" (cheers?) and kind regards from Paul.
Nielsen Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Thu 17 Dec 2020, 17:52
Thank you Paul, and where I live it is still political correct to say God Jul or Merry Christmas to you as well.
Cheers and kind regards from me.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Fri 18 Dec 2020, 20:06
I think the ads just sneak through sometimes. I think I need a virtual strong drink tonight. I'm catching up with a bit of filing and have discovered that the plastic sleeves (for putting in ring binder type files) I bought on Wednesday are faulty. They are single plastic sheets rather than fused together. If I can find my receipt I'll try and change them tomorrow. I'll wish everybody a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year while I'm here.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 19 Dec 2020, 15:45
The same to you, LiR. You said: "while I am here". I guess that's on nordmann's Norwegian forum? Although, if it is as in Belgium, you can maximum receive one person in your "bubble", and if you are "alone" maximum two. In my humble opinion you are better off "here" with your acquaintances of the gang in those dark (question of light) days...but it is only an opinion... ... PS: Especially if it is the same in the "United Kingdom" as in Belgium?
Kind regards dear Lady in retirement.
Paul.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 19 Dec 2020, 16:06
I'll see your "God Jul" and raise you a
gesælige cristesmæsse!
Nielsen Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 19 Dec 2020, 16:55
Thank you GG I hope that Nordmann and I both shall share the spirit of your wish, and that all users and contributors to these boards may enjoy a healthy season.
Cheers.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 19 Dec 2020, 17:15
GG, "gesaelige cristesmaesse" you said. I wanted to say "Gezellige Kristen Mis"
"And it was Hebe who found that gesaelig was an Old English word. The central part of the word is 'sael', which you can see at once is really the same as 'soul'. The 'ig' ending is like the German '-ich' (as in lieblich, freundlich, etc) so correlates with the modern English ending '-y' (e.g. friendly, groovy, messy). The 'ge-' beginning indicates an activity of modification, and perhaps best correlates to the modern beginning 'en-'. So gesaelig means something like 'ensouled-ish', or 'made holy'. The g at the beginning and end are not hard. The one at the beginning sounds like a 'y', and the '-ig' at the end sludges like the German '-ich' or the Dutch '-ig'. I know there are proper terms for all these things (prefix and suffix and whatnot) but I can never remember them.
By the time Old English had morphed into Middle English, the word saelig had become 'silly'; meaning 'innocent'. People of simple mind were described as 'silly' because they were seen as God's innocents, not to be held guilty of sin because they lacked the capacity for moral discernment. 'Silly' continued to alter over the years until it simply meant 'foolish', or 'of no account': but once it had meant holy and innocent. To develop from 'holy' to 'innocemt' means that for the Anglo-Saxon people, holiness had a strong flavour of purity - being unsullied. The best expression of this particular sense of purity I know is in Ben Jonson's poem The Triumph Of Charis: Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutched it?
So the word gesaelig is an adjective to describe something that has been infused with a quality of soul that is shining and innocent and bright and pure and clean, at the same time humble and lowly and ordinary. The casual presence of all of God in the world of everyday."
Kind regards from Paul.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 19 Dec 2020, 17:40
Indeed, Paul. Many years ago for "O" level English I studied the Prologue and the "Nonne Preestes Tale" from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales". The Nun's Priest's Tale is the story of Chanticleer (a sort of generic name for a cock, as say "Puss" for a cat or "Rover" for a dog). His owner is described as a "sely widwe" - a simple widow, and as "a maner deye". Now that's another one - a "deye" worked in a "deyerie" or dairy, so a dairymaid is really a "woman who works in a place where a deye works". Convoluted, isn't it!
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 20 Dec 2020, 12:26
That's also why Sussex - the southern English county or originally the kingdom of the South Saxons - came to be known as "silly" Sussex: not because its inhabitants were particularly stupid, although doubtless many were, but because they had a reputation for being saelig, ie religious, devout, holy or saintly, on account of the large number of churches. Which is why the Devil tried to flood the county by digging a channel (Devil's Dyke north of Brighton) through the South Downs to let the sea in.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Mon 21 Dec 2020, 18:30
It being a wet, miserable sort of day I decided to make old memory food.... pease pudding, boiled gammon. carrots. onions and properly boiled dry potatoes with a stock gravy. And it was perfect. I then looked up the recipe - I doubt I will ever do anything the right way round.... and found people bleating on about it being NE dish and rarely made or even heard of in the south. Nonsense. All of my generation had it in childhood on the mud flats at least and a few still make it. I used the cloth bundle method and blender because of no overnight soaking and I am used to cooking all sorts of pulses. Now media is trying to make a panic about not getting veg from EU. Can manage on heaps of dry stock and own garden stuff, for quite a while, ta. This woman is an island.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Mon 21 Dec 2020, 21:47
It was wet here too today Priscilla. So much so that the local weather forecaster assured us that we wouldn't be able to see the Saturn-Jupiter conjunction this evening due to cloud cover but that we'd have a better chance tomorrow evening. And that did indeed seem to be the case earlier on. Yet only 15 minutes ago, Mrs V (who was out getting something from her car) called me outside to say that she could see it and, true enuff, there it was high up and to the left of the half-moon. And there were plenty of stars in evidence as well. We were very lucky to see it because the cloud cover has since returned.
As for the conjunction itself, then my admiration for astronomers of old only increases because (unless you knew what the sky should look like) then it just appeared to be a bright star high up. On any other nite one might not even notice it let alone remark upon it. That said - and to be fair to Brother Consolmagno of the Vatican Observatory - it was located exactly in the right part of the heavens as one might imagine would be depicted the Star of Bethlehem in a Nativity scene on a Christmas card.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Tue 22 Dec 2020, 13:24
Priscilla wrote:
Now media is trying to make a panic about not getting veg from EU.
Yes, they are reporting shortages of lettuce. Probably the tip of the iceberg.
Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Tue 22 Dec 2020, 14:17
Triceratops wrote:
Priscilla wrote:
Now media is trying to make a panic about not getting veg from EU.
Yes, they are reporting shortages of lettuce. Probably the tip of the iceberg.
Algernon: [Picking up empty plate in horror.] Good heavens! Lane! Why are there no cucumber sandwiches? I ordered them specially. Lane: [Gravely.] There were no cucumbers in the market this morning, sir. I went down twice. Algernon: No cucumbers! Lane: No, sir. Not even for ready money. Algernon: That will do, Lane, thank you. Lane: Thank you, sir. [Goes out.] Algernon: I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money. Lady Bracknell: It really makes no matter, Algernon. I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.
Will crumpets as a pleasurable alternative to the delights of a cucumber sandwich still be available after 31st December? I do not know whether or not the UK imports crumpets - or some essential ingredient of the crumpet - from our friends and partners in Europe. In the spirit of rational enquiry for which this site is renowned, I hopefully googled: "Does the UK import crumpets from the EU?"
No one out there seems to know or care. I don't even know if the Europeans know what a crumpet is. Perhaps it is regarded as a British abomination, like Melton Mowbray pork pie (which is indeed an abomination).
PS No nice Spanish cauliflowers to be had either, just homegrown Brussels sprouts. Apparently cauliflower is a difficult vegetable to grow here, so I don't know what we shall do if cauliflower cheese becomes a luxury food. I wonder if Priscilla has ever attempted cauliflower cultivation?
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Tue 22 Dec 2020, 15:47
We here at Cherry Meadows of course we can grow cauliflowers. The art is in being able to get the label right and not lose it otherwise your purple sprouting and your cabbage get mixed up with it. Unable to adjust the sun.. as they seem able to do in Spain, caulis do not flourish in winter here. However, put on the wellies and you will find beetroot, leeks, carrots and parsnips all plate ready in our veg patches - for a film of this we may need the neighbour's cat for that cosy ahhhhh authentic real gardener's touch. This charming but not really bright cat is usually found beside our ground feeders bird table. Something to do at the weekend, then, is to search the web to buy in seeds for next season and plenty of vitamin tablets to cover you for the lengthy wait to fill your fridge with vital greens. Or get a slot with Tesco and hope they have planned ahead.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 26 Dec 2020, 14:10
I adore pork pies. In fact today is the perfect day for a slice along with other cold meats, cheeses and pickles etc. I draw the line at washing it down with fortified wine though. No port or sherry or malmsey for me thanks. Just a glass of real wine or beer please.
I hesitate to type the words 'European crumpet' into a search engine for fear of it returning a load of Carry On or Benny Hill style results. That said - I'm pretty sure that pikelets (as my mother used to call them), being made in England are, therefore, by definition European. What they might not be is 'mainland European' or 'EU' crumpets. Yet government broadcasts are still telling us that if we 'do business with Europe' then we'd better get ready for change. I live in Europe, the British Isles are in Europe. And so for the umpteenth time Mr Johnson and Mr Gove etc, please understand that the terms 'Europe' and 'the EU' are not interchangeable.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 26 Dec 2020, 14:54
Most of the bigger French supermarkets eg Carrefour, Intermarché, Leclerc etc sell both crumpets and muffins, sometimes in the store's own packaging and written in French but nevertheless usually marked fabriqué en Royaume-Uni, although the Jacquet muffins are clearly French-made:
... pikelets though are not so easy to find.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 26 Dec 2020, 15:07
"pikelets" MM. what one learns here each day about the English language...
And it seems to be our neighbours well know and famous "poffertjes"...
Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 26 Dec 2020, 15:17
Paul - you're teasing now with 'pass the "Jahreswende"'. I'm guessing it's an alternative name for Sekt or any libation with which to toast the new year. Not, however, to be confused with toastbrötchen.
That said - let's not get ahead of ourselves. We still haven't had Boxing Day yet. The Beeb and commercial radio etc keep telling me that it's today. It's not. Boxing Day 2020 will be on Monday the 28th.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 26 Dec 2020, 15:31
Are you sure about that Viz? I thought that Boxing Day is always on 26 December whether that's a weekend or not, however the attached bank holiday or public holiday takes place on the first following weekday should Boxing Day fall on a Saturday or Sunday, no?
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 26 Dec 2020, 16:44
My interpretation stems from my time in Belfast where (predictably) there was a sectional divide in usage regarding this. Basically, nationalists would refer to the 26th of December as 'St Stephen's Day' while unionists would call it 'Boxing Day'. So entrenched was this, that just to get a unionist to say 'St Stephen's Day' or to get a nationalist to say 'Boxing Day' would seemingly stick in their respective craws.
So whenever a year came round (as you point out) in which the 26th of December fell on a weekend, then I relished the opportunity to get each party to say the term which (petty prejudice) had rendered their tongues unfamiliar with uttering. My experience was that when it was appreciated (by the parties concerned) that the 2 terms were not necessarily interchangeable (and thus not in direct competition with one another) then people began to relax about the whole thing. Differentiating between 'Boxing Day' and 'the Boxing Day bank holiday' seems to be a semantic hypothesis which misses the point. If it were just an attached bank holiday (but separate from 'Boxing Day' as such) then surely in a year such as 2020 (when Christmas Day falls on a Friday) then the name 'Christmas holiday' (for Monday the 28th) would suffice. Ten years ago in 2010 (when Christmas Day fell on a Saturday) then there was indeed a 'Christmas holiday' on Monday the 27th with Boxing Day on Tuesday the 28th. In other words, in that year the Feast of Stephen took place even before the Christmas holiday let alone Boxing Day.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 26 Dec 2020, 19:03
Vizzer wrote:
Paul - you're teasing now with 'pass the "Jahreswende"'. I'm guessing it's an alternative name for Sekt or any libation with which to toast the new year. Not, however, to be confused with toastbrötchen.
That said - let's not get ahead of ourselves. We still haven't had Boxing Day yet. The Beeb and commercial radio etc keep telling me that it's today. It's not. Boxing Day 2020 will be on Monday the 28th.
Dear Vizzer,
I said it already that I understood the Spanish Comic Monster about translations... How difficult is it to find the right words in a foreign language... And if one start to make some language jokes to MM, as I know him that his French is OK perhaps better than mine and he understands very well German I said something like: "Passez une bonne fin d'année" (in our dialect: passeer 'n goed eindejaars) (spend a good end-of-the-year?)
And of course my "Jahreswende" (turn of the year?) was an allusion to the trilingual (perhaps four lingual as he "resided" a time in Belgium) friend MM. They say also, if I recall it well "Silvesterabend".
Kind regards from Paul.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 26 Dec 2020, 20:30
PaulRyckier wrote:
I didn't realize how tricky the word "pass" in English was
Paul it was I that was teasing by leaving off the word 'well' from 'pass the "Jahreswende" well' so as to render the quote similar to 'pass the brandy' or some such.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sat 26 Dec 2020, 21:53
I think in fact the Boxing Day bank holiday actually preceeded the Christmas Day one, but it has been changed since so that the order will be reversed next year. Quite a few people got caught by this last time St Stephen's Day fell on a Saturday - they didn't pay the car park charges in Wolverhampton (in those days free on Bank Holidays) and were incensed to discover the penalty charge notices on their vehicles. From memory there was a Wolves match that day which increased the problem.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 27 Dec 2020, 10:32
PaulRyckier wrote:
Vizzer wrote:
Paul - you're teasing now with 'pass the "Jahreswende"'. I'm guessing it's an alternative name for Sekt or any libation with which to toast the new year. Not, however, to be confused with toastbrötchen.
That said - let's not get ahead of ourselves. We still haven't had Boxing Day yet. The Beeb and commercial radio etc keep telling me that it's today. It's not. Boxing Day 2020 will be on Monday the 28th.
Dear Vizzer,
I said it already that I understood the Spanish Comic Monster about translations... How difficult is it to find the right words in a foreign language... And if one start to make some language jokes to MM, as I know him that his French is OK perhaps better than mine and he understands very well German I said something like: "Passez une bonne fin d'année" (in our dialect: passeer 'n goed eindejaars) (spend a good end-of-the-year?)
And of course my "Jahreswende" (turn of the year?) was an allusion to the trilingual (perhaps four lingual as he "resided" a time in Belgium) friend MM. They say also, if I recall it well "Silvesterabend".
Kind regards from Paul.
Paul,
Your : ""Passez une bonne fin d'année" (in our dialect: passeer 'n goed eindejaars) (spend a good end-of-the-year?)"
Do they use the Dutch expression of " Zalig uiteinde" in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium at all instead of "passeer een goed eindejaars"?
Dirk
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 27 Dec 2020, 11:02
Vizzer wrote:
I adore pork pies.
Do I detect the hint of a culinary rebuke? It's that horrible jelly stuff that I can't stand, plus all the fat - ugh.
But no food fascism allowed here - we have been given free will to choose food heaven or food hell. Do we export many pork pies - are they part of our gross national product? I wonder if the Chinese would like them. Big market there to be exploited.
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 27 Dec 2020, 11:26
Channel 4's version of the Queen's Christmas message:
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Subject: Re: The Tumbleweed Suite Sun 27 Dec 2020, 11:29
On the subject of food, an ancient fast food outlet has been uncovered in Pompeii:
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