You have such a gorgeous garden and It was nice to hear your voice. I must say when I read your posts, your voice in my mind is a lot more firm. But in reality it is quite soft.
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Yip, I have never enjoyed studying. I do like reading the information but the part about getting it to stick in my head I hated and am not good at.
Good morning! I took a tour of my property and I don’t see any damage from the storms... my first stop was Toretto’s yard and all looks well. The box was completely dry inside and temperatures were perfect... now if the rains will speed my grass up, we will be in good shape.
Good morning! I took a tour of my property and I don’t see any damage from the storms... my first stop was Toretto’s yard and all looks well. The box was completely dry inside and temperatures were perfect... now if the rains will speed my grass up, we will be in good shape.
Well I liked your voice as well.I have a very neutral accent because we moved round the country so frequently when I was young. Everywhere we moved I had the wrong accent! (We have many regional accents in the UK and they’re all quite strong) The result is something nobody can pinpoint apart from my pronunciation of certain words
MMM That would be expensive. At least he landed okay and glad that he did. So how is it having the house to yourself?
Oh how disappointing!!Fast forward to Three Years Later... "Hm... Still no birds??"
I had the same in Canada in Gatineau Park. Only the things eating me were giant yellowish striped flies (?) and equally giant mosquitoes. Everything seems to be bigger in North America.
Some of these “horse flies” can be very nasty and can bite you right through denim or flannel. Allegedly the product “Skin So Soft” helps repel as does a very liberal coating of products with deet. SSS is a bit gentler...
I am sure it does.
yay, that is absolutely great. Glad all is fine.
Which is why it sounds like the BBC. Or the Queen's English.
The Beeb is very into regional accents these day. For home broadcasting anyway! It might still used received pronunciation for international broadcasts to give foreigners a hope
The sticking in my head part is also what made me not like school but I hope I can be better at it with something that interest me. I’ve often hesitated on stoping everything...
Sjoe, that took quite a while to catch up. Anyway got to get back to work now and will chat later again.
Google is a very handy tool.
Type in
convert 62F to C
And it does it for you
We used Farenheit for many years and switched when I was a small child. Similarly we moved from metric to imperial measurements for length at school. When I did practice papers for my school exams some of them were imperial and some were metric [emoji23]
Our roads are measured in miles.
Our ovens measure in Celsius. We use Celsius officially and in weather forecasts but like to switch to Farenheit when it’s warm because it sounds better.
Food and groceries are sold by metric weight and volume. But milk is sold in pints with the official label giving the measurement in litres. Draught beer is sold in pints.
Petrol is sold by the litre, but nobody understands fuel economy until it’s converted into miles per gallon.
We tell each other how much we weigh in stones and pounds and our height in feet and inches - although medical staff always record it in metric.
It’s a right mess over here [emoji23]
Daughter says it was a mess in Canada too, just a different mess. Canada is also officially metric, but switch to imperial differently to the UK. For example Canadians use Farenheit on their ovens and Celsius for the weather.
One of the hedgehog holes is new. Joe couldn’t get to the others and was too big to fit through anyway... although if his head fitted through he would have given it a try. He never did work out that his shell wasn’t squishy
The ivy just spreads. It’s a nuisance! I hacked it back hard in the autumn because it was taking over. We can’t get rid of it of we tried!
OK. It used to bother me when he was away, but not any more. I can be a little more untidy while he isn’t here
Only in my garden....there were a few young dandies so I nabbed those.
I found a great place for them last year but it's a bit too far for me to get at the moment and the ground is very uneven so not wise to go there yet.
I'm not doing too badly getting about thanks Lena.
I'm using just one crutch now to keep the full weight off my leg, which is much easier especially on stairs.
I've been doing my physio exercises and hoping I can start to use my shoes, and then drive again soon.
My painful left heel is what is making things more difficult walking, but apart from that there is light at the end of, what has seemed like, a very long tunnel.
