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Blackdog1714 said:

If you are adventerous you can melt aluminum and pour down into the anthill and have an art sculpture

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JoesMum said:

Good mornooning all.

Yesterday we went birdwatching in the Camargue ... a huge are of coastal salt marshes which is also a nature reserve and wetland of international importance designated by Ramsar (part of UNESCO)

It’s famous for its white horses (and black bulls - forgot to photograph those)
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And Greater Flamingoes (we saw thousands but my phone photos of the big flocks didn’t come out)
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Coypu, locally known as Ragondin, are not native but are all over the place. This one is quite small.
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And for lunch we had cuttlefish with razor clams... it looks like some magnified microbe [emoji23] It was served with rice... lots is grown in the area and it’s famous for the red grained variety. Also to accompany it another local dish - ratatouille: stewed tomato, courgette (aka zucchini), aubergine (aka eggplant), bell pepper and garlic with mixed herbs.
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Ben02 said:

I get my GCSE results back next Thursday..... not looking forward to it. I did the best as I could so I guess we will see what happens.

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CarolM said:

Hi All,
Sorry I have been AWOL lately. Work has been super busy and what with me going to gym in the evenings after work, and Jarrod's sports schedule over the weekends I have been too tired to come on. I am not going to read all the posts that I have missed, as there are way too many. My torts are all doing fine - just waiting for spring and summer to come, so that the little ones can spend more time outdoors.
Heather I did see that you got the results from your MRI and I am so sorry to read about the bulging disc. I really hope that the Doctors can help you, and welcome to the "Body wear and tear - Where can I get a new body"Club!

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Yvonne G said:

I saw this online and thought it was interesting enough to share with you all:

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down.... in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, and alarm goes off by going on?

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible....

PS. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"....

Now ponder this:
There is a 2 letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other 2 letter word, and that is "UP".
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At the meeting, why does a topic come UP? why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election...and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, Work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!!! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses or UP, look the work UP in the dictionary. In a desk sized dictionary it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it's clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it's clearing UP...

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap UP. For now my time is UP, so.......its time to shut UP !!!!

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Yvonne G said:

Yup! Me and my many cans of wasp spray get rid of them quickly. Trick is to see them before they see me.

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Yvonne G said:

I agree. Here you can buy reusable plastic bags, but in my way of thinking they are worse than the ones 'they' did away with. These new bags will stay in the environment much longer than the old ones.

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Yvonne G said:

I saw this online and thought it was interesting enough to share with you all:

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down.... in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, and alarm goes off by going on?

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible....

PS. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"....

Now ponder this:
There is a 2 letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other 2 letter word, and that is "UP".
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At the meeting, why does a topic come UP? why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election...and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, Work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!!! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses or UP, look the work UP in the dictionary. In a desk sized dictionary it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it's clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it's clearing UP...

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap UP. For now my time is UP, so.......its time to shut UP !!!!

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Ray--Opo said:

That is cool. Maybe the aluminum is not heated to high. I worked in a aluminum foundry. The biggest danger was water. If a tablespoon full of water got encapsulated by the molten aluminum. The explosion would be comparable to 10 sticks of dynamite. Back in the 90's it happened at a foundry in Indiana. Destroyed part of the plant and killed one. I was holding my breath watching that video.

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CarolM said:

Good Morning Everyone.
Have an awesome Thursday. View attachment 278525

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JoesMum said:

Both mine ran always in to play without looking back... I felt awful. I mean they could have pretended they were going to miss me couldn’t they?! [emoji23]

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CarolM said:

And he would cry those heart wrenching tears and scream, Mommy don't leave me, I need you. I had to walk away and not look back. It was very difficult.

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JoesMum said:

Probably slightly less exercise for me... and more cheese and wine [emoji23]

We’re just off to get some bread and book a restaurant for tonight. Weather is much better than the UK
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Lyn W said:

Bon jour, Linda ,Goeie More Carol, and Bore Da and Good morning to everyone else
Hope you all have a lovely Thursday!

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Lyn W said:

Bon jour, Linda ,Goeie More Carol, and Bore Da and Good morning to everyone else
Hope you all have a lovely Thursday!

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EllieMay said:

I have went through that many times at daycare... but THANKFULLY, our first two days at grade school have been year free... for him at least

when I picked him up yesterday I asked how it went and he was so big when he replied “ Actually... not that bad”
LOL!!! He wouldn’t have been so good about it even six months ago but he was ready now!

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JoesMum said:

Both mine ran always in to play without looking back... I felt awful. I mean they could have pretended they were going to miss me couldn’t they?! [emoji23]

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Ben02 said:

Linda how do you do those laughing emojis? I can’t find them on the smilies list.

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Ray--Opo said:

I missed Blackdog1714's idea. Was it here in the CDR?

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Yvonne G said:

I saw this online and thought it was interesting enough to share with you all:

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down.... in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, and alarm goes off by going on?

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible....

PS. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"....

Now ponder this:
There is a 2 letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other 2 letter word, and that is "UP".
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At the meeting, why does a topic come UP? why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election...and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, Work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!!! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses or UP, look the work UP in the dictionary. In a desk sized dictionary it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it's clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it's clearing UP...

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap UP. For now my time is UP, so.......its time to shut UP !!!!

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