COLD DARK ROOM

[JoesMum]

Hello Sabine, hello everybody. I am jealous of your weather, I love snow!!

Having grown up at the foot of the Yorkshire Dales, snow was just a nuisance. We always had to dig our drive out before school so Dad could drive to work and then join the other kids on our road to dig through the mound left by the snow plough across the end of our road (the main Leeds-Harrogate road got ploughed, but the side roads didn’t)

It looks pretty, but I still can’t get excited by it. Here in Kent, nobody knows how to drive in snow ... they’re dangerous! Fortunately we only get heavy snow about once a decade. The last really heavy lot was in 2010. This was 7 years ago today

 

[Bee62]

Hello Sabine, hello everybody. I am jealous of your weather, I love snow!!

How much donkeys with snow should I send you ?????

 

[JoesMum]

How much donkeys with snow should I send you ?????

Can you delay until nearer Christmas please? I need to get to Buxton on the 15th and home on the 17th. If Jane, who lives at low altitude, has snow there is no hope of celebrating Mum’s birthday at the top of the Pennines!

 

[Bee62]

Having grown up at the foot of the Yorkshire Dales, snow was just a nuisance. We always had to dig our drive out before school so Dad could drive to work and then join the other kids on our road to dig through the mound left by the snow plough across the end of our road (the main Leeds-Harrogate road got ploughed, but the side roads didn’t)

It looks pretty, but I still can’t get excited by it. Here in Kent, nobody knows how to drive in snow ... they’re dangerous! Fortunately we only get heavy snow about once a decade. The last really heavy lot was in 2010. This was 7 years ago today
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Do you have special winter tires ? In Germany you have to, otherwise you will get a punishment from the police. The winter tires makes driving in snow a little bit safer.

 

[Bee62]

Can you delay until nearer Christmas please? I need to get to Buxton on the 15th and home on the 17th. If Jane, who lives at low altitude, has snow there is no hope of celebrating Mum’s birthday at the top of the Pennines!

Oh yes, I will wait with my snow- delivery-donkeys until you are back at home. Snow on Christmas Eve will be lovely too.

 

[JoesMum]

Do you have special winter tires ? In Germany you have to, otherwise you will get a punishment from the police. The winter tires makes driving in snow a little bit safer.

In Yorkshire it is/was worth having them. My sister lives in the Peak District and puts them on her car every winter.

Down here for two days every decade it isn’t worth the expense. We just avoid driving if we can!

 

[JoesMum]

Oh yes, I will wait with my snow- delivery-donkeys until you are back at home. Snow on Christmas Eve will be lovely too.

Thank you. Your use of the word tire reminds me of another of these inexplicable differences between English in the UK and the US.

We have tyres on our car wheels, the Americans have tires. I have no idea why.

At least it’s the same word for the car part unlike
bumper (UK)/ fender (US)
Bonnet (UK) / hood (US)
Boot (UK) / Trunk (US)

 

[Gillian M]

Good morning, Linda.

It's cold here this morning!

Good evening, Adam, Wifey and Tidgy.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, though it's not that cold here. At least not yet.

 

[Bee62]

Thank you. Your use of the word tire reminds me of another of these inexplicable differences between English in the UK and the US.

We have tyres on our car wheels, the Americans have tires. I have no idea why.

At least it’s the same word for the car part unlike
bumper (UK)/ fender (US)
Bonnet (UK) / hood (US)
Boot (UK) / Trunk (US)

Silly language ....
As long as you understand me I am satisfied !

 

[Bee62]

Good evening, Adam, Wifey and Tidgy.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, though it's not that cold here. At least not yet.

Good evening Gillian. Have you seen my winter pictures I`ve posted one page before ?

 

[JoesMum]

Silly language ....
As long as you understand me I am satisfied !

Exactly! I am just interested in language and languages... I find the derivation of words fascinating and working out similarities and differences between languages can keep me amused for ages.

Sometimes it’s visible...
Fenster (German), Fenêtre (French), Window (English)

Sometimes it’s audible like the use of B/V ... F/V, V/W, J/Y/H...

I should have studied linguistics at university instead of computing

 

[Gillian M]

Good evening Gillian. Have you seen my winter pictures I`ve posted one page before ?

Good evening Sabine.

Am not sure. Sorry.

 

[Yvonne G]

I found it:




It's right next to "new posts" on the left side of the screen. And while we're on the subject - don't you absolutely HATE that ad that shows the big green "start now" button? I accidentally clicked on that one time when I mistook it for the "next" button. It started downloading something to my computer.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Ladies and gentleman, lovely roommates, as we are talking about the weather and how cold it is everywhere, what do you think about these pictures ? Actual views of today:View attachment 224286

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sheeps in the snow .....


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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bee62]

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Exactly! I am just interested in language and languages... I find the derivation of words fascinating and working out similarities and differences between languages can keep me amused for ages.

Sometimes it’s visible...
Fenster (German), Fenêtre (French), Window (English)

Sometimes it’s audible like the use of B/V ... F/V, V/W, J/Y/H...

I should have studied linguistics at university instead of computing

It is never too late ....

 

[Gillian M]

@Bee62 , if you mean the pics with that snow..............brrrrrrrrrr, well yes I did see them.

 

[Bee62]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!
Good evening Adam.

 

[JoesMum]

I found it:

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It's right next to "new posts" on the left side of the screen. And while we're on the subject - don't you absolutely HATE that ad that shows the big green "start now" button? I accidentally clicked on that one time when I mistook it for the "next" button. It started downloading something to my computer.

So it is... I never noticed new profile posts before!

You have the forum in a different font to me!

 

[Bee62]

@Bee62 , if you mean the pics with that snow..............brrrrrrrrrr, well yes I did see them.

Yes, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

That looks VERY cold!!!
My brother was in the US Army for 22 years, and was stationed in many different countries. He said the COLDEST he ever was, was in Germany!!![emoji33] He said that the fog would FREEZE ONTO THE TREES, which looked very strange...[emoji33] I can’t remember the word for that phenomenon...[emoji51]

Poland one year it was -40°C. I was walking on the frozen Baltic.
Ridiculous.