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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2018 18:20:08 GMT
Are these the end days?!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 17, 2018 19:16:50 GMT
On the French evening news on television, they said that the earthquake was in "Oraca." Of course we must keep in mind that the most difficult consonant for the French to pronounce in the English way is the H. In a similar vein (same same but different), one of the most faddish cocktails of this decade is called the "morito" here.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 17, 2018 19:25:49 GMT
Cheery, there was an earthquake in the Midlands early ‘80’s which came right down through Hertford and caused my daughter’s ceiling to collapse right on the play pen and pram. Fortunately it was 4 in the morning so boys were in bed. I didn't start working in the labs until 1988 Mick, so this had to be another one. I think that UK get them every few years...the one in the south west of England and Wales today was 4.4 !
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 17, 2018 20:18:03 GMT
Are these the end days?! Nah. Plenty left.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2018 20:32:10 GMT
the most difficult consonant for the French to pronounce in the English way is the H. Ahem. You all pronounce your R as an H! Using the R sounds like a good stab at the pronunciation.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 17, 2018 21:31:12 GMT
It is just as weird as we have always found the Japanese difficulty between the R and the L to be.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 17, 2018 21:34:56 GMT
We’ve just had an earthquake in Wales! 4.4. There were two little earthquakes in Brittany in the last week or two -- A 4.6 north of La Rochelle and a 3.6 near Quimper.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2018 22:45:38 GMT
Yikes ~ all those plates!
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Post by mossie on Feb 18, 2018 9:17:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2018 16:37:57 GMT
Finally, all the out of town guests from Carnival have left.
Now, it's "back to abnormal" and spring appears to have sprung. What a horrid winter it was here.
Waiting on what will "come back" in the landscape...
In the meantime I planted likely 100 nasturtium seeds yesterday just so I can see some color soon and eat them too!!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2018 16:41:45 GMT
The darlings! I have one that just keeps going. It was planted from seed in Spring of last year & has been eaten down to a nub by caterpillars, drowned by excessive rain, is enduring drought right now, but covered with leaves & flowers. When I lived on Pritchard Place ('70-'71), I had a climbing nasturtium. Have been looking for one of those ever since.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2018 16:46:17 GMT
I'm sure you could find some seeds available online Bixa.
I grow the climbing, the clumping, the miniatures, all of them!!!! All colors although, I'm not mad about the variegated leaf variety.
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Post by tod2 on Feb 21, 2018 16:51:33 GMT
I'm really surprised at 'earthquakes' in UK. We have had some in South Africa but mainly feel 'Earth Tremors' if we do get a bit shaky. The earthquakes were years ago in the cape region inland.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 21, 2018 16:59:29 GMT
I remember an earthquake in Bruxelles. It was in ... oh God, no... 1991 or 92 ? It woke me up, all with the plates and glases dancing in the cupboards..
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 26, 2018 7:59:50 GMT
In case it reaches the news where you are...there was a big explosion in Leicester last night about two miles from our house. It took out a convenience store and the two story flat above it, four confirmed dead and four badly injured so far although the emergency services are still working at the scene. Probably a gas explosion they reckon. Just popping in to say that we're all ok here.
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Post by questa on Feb 26, 2018 8:28:03 GMT
Glad you and yours are OK. Thanks for the 'heads up'.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 26, 2018 8:28:16 GMT
Yes, of course it was on the news here, but I hadn't connected it to where you live!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2018 14:58:07 GMT
Good grief, Cheery! I just got on line, but didn't look at the newspapers yet. Thank you for letting us know you're okay!
You all must have heard it, with it being so close. That is terrifying.
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Post by mossie on Feb 26, 2018 19:17:56 GMT
Sounds as if it was a gas explosion. Frightening for you Cheery.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 26, 2018 21:54:44 GMT
Well we didn't hear the explosion, I think the chaps were watching a loud science fiction film with lots of shooting and I was listening to an audio book.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 27, 2018 2:41:49 GMT
Glad everyone is okay Cheery! It is true, when I hear earthquakes in Mexico, flooding in New Orleans, freezing rain in Montreal etc. I do think of our friends here. So thank you for posting that you were safe in case we heard it on the news.
My husband got called in this afternoon because an old chemical plant had a fire, no explosions though thankfully! (But I have always been afraid that place was going to explode one day!) I can not wait until they are finished demolishing it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 27, 2018 6:11:06 GMT
In my neighbourhood, they recently cleaned out a lot where a car repair garage used to be and they found a half dozen bottles of acetone which had been abandoned there for years, just waiting to explode.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 27, 2018 11:01:13 GMT
When it is so cold I think of the dead buried with light clothes and I think I'll ask to be buried with a big anorak. Stupid I know.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 27, 2018 11:33:31 GMT
I saw the feature length version of the Belgian show Strip Tease today (the film version is called Ni juge, ni soumise) and one of the things the investigating magistrate had to do was dig up a corpse at a cemetery to get some DNA samples. They sawed off some fingers, pulled a couple of teeth and took a piece of femur. An anorak would have afforded no protection.
(I had never seen such an operation before and definitely do not need to see it again. The woman in charge was so used to it, she joked "take a little extra for apéritif."
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 27, 2018 11:56:44 GMT
I should be going to my retirement lunch in London today but it has been cancelled as all trains to London have been cancelled yet not a snowflake has fallen.
We are really pathetic in this country.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 27, 2018 12:23:54 GMT
Cancelled or postponed?
We had a little snow in Paris this morning but it has stopped for the moment.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 27, 2018 12:51:27 GMT
Postponed to March 20 (lunch not trains).
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 27, 2018 13:46:29 GMT
You'll have to tiptoe through the tulips by then.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 27, 2018 14:44:12 GMT
Postponed to March 20 (lunch not trains) That is annoying, having the lunch after the retirement. It will be extra work for you because you'll have to try really hard not to smirk and gloat when asked by your former colleagues what it's like not having to go to work.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 27, 2018 14:58:01 GMT
Silver lining....,
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