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Post by bjd on Apr 23, 2024 18:11:32 GMT
That sounds horrible, Cheery. I feel sorry for the bus driver too, especially since it was obviously not the first time.
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Post by bjd on Apr 23, 2024 8:20:36 GMT
Dull, damp, cold. Totally uninspiring. It sounds as though you need a holiday in the sun, Mick.
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Post by bjd on Apr 23, 2024 6:43:54 GMT
Sonja Henie Norwegian Olympic ice skating medalist and actress in the first half of the 20th century
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Post by bjd on Apr 23, 2024 6:41:59 GMT
Dortmund Important city in northern Germany whose industrial past has become a hub for new technologies
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Post by bjd on Apr 23, 2024 6:37:14 GMT
8° and raining lightly this morning. A cool week in store for us, with barely mid-teens in the forecast.
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Post by bjd on Apr 23, 2024 6:28:03 GMT
It is pretty but where is everyone? It wasn't even raining.
I just had a look on Wikipedia to see where it is located. Turns out that the population is about 30,000 and declining. And that the place was a large American army base until 1993.
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Post by bjd on Apr 20, 2024 6:57:53 GMT
What does "gritters on standby" mean?
Mick, don't forget that only 2 years ago, you were all complaining that it was too hot and dry and that temps reached 40° in England.
Sunny and 7° this morning, we should get close to 20° again this afternoon.
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Post by bjd on Apr 19, 2024 18:08:04 GMT
Bela Lugosi Real name Béla Blaskó, American actor of Hungarian origin best known for playing Dracula
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Post by bjd on Apr 19, 2024 18:05:11 GMT
Falmouth Port town in Cornwall, England
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Post by bjd on Apr 19, 2024 18:03:32 GMT
I think in France the current covid vaccine campaign is for over-80s and those with fragile immune systems.
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Post by bjd on Apr 19, 2024 7:27:55 GMT
Why or why do weeds grow so much better than everything else? I spent the last two days digging weeds out of garden beds. Not just "weeds" but clumps of grass. I finish in one place and they have sprung up elsewhere. I know I need mulch but can't find anything that looks right. What I found in bags is chunks of pine bark and used that in the bed I dug out to make a path. Wood chips would have been better but can't get those in bulk. We bought a wood chipper but the pieces are not very small.
So I have been putting most of the weeds and grass I pull into the compost pile and will use that to cover the beds after they decompose. Unfortunately, there are seeds in there so the weeds will grow back. It's not the most attractive look but it's the best I can do.
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Post by bjd on Apr 19, 2024 7:18:58 GMT
I like the Brunetti books by Donna Leon. Have read lots of them. I was surprised to learn that she had left Venice and now lives in Switzerland. I suppose it was either for tax purposes or because she can't stand the tourists any more.
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Post by bjd on Apr 19, 2024 5:51:02 GMT
I have a mix of mostly fiction (in particular detective stories) and non-fiction piling up. I found a book about an Inspector Gently in a book box. Written in the mid-1950s and very old-fashioned, taking place somewhere around Norfolk.
Then at my local library, they recently bought a few detective stories in English. I have no idea who recommends them. One I started also takes place around Norwich and is one of a series by Elly Griffiths, The Night Hawks. I find it terribly written -- it reads like the screen play for a TV show -- and will probably take it back unread after getting through the first few chapters.
I bought Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash. He is a British professor of European history and writes about his own personal relationship with Europe. I haven't started it yet but generally appreciate his writing. There is also Barack Obama's first autobiographical book (Tales from my Father, or something like that)in my pile. Found at the local charity shop.
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Post by bjd on Apr 19, 2024 5:38:16 GMT
Clear sky and 5°C this morning! I turned the heating on again. It is supposed to be 20° this afternoon.
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Post by bjd on Apr 17, 2024 8:47:20 GMT
That's the ship I'm booked to sail on for a few days in June. They will drop off the flame in Marseille before that.
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 19:03:52 GMT
Trinidad Island in the Caribbean sea, often grouped with Tobago
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 19:02:45 GMT
Dorothy Parker American writer known for her witty remarks
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 18:58:46 GMT
So that's your new house, Casi? How nice. What is the meaning of the colours of the flag on the veranda?
Now can we finally see your garden?
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Eggs
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 18:55:40 GMT
My son-in-law adds some Dijon-style (ie French) mustard to the egg mixture when he makes an omelette. It just enlivens the taste a bit.
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 6:14:00 GMT
Amazing stuff. I realize that nobody rolls their r's any longer.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2024 19:50:57 GMT
My ceanothus bloomed for the first time this year but it's nowhere the size of Patrick's. Yes, I can finally see it. I don't think it will ever get that size.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2024 19:47:04 GMT
I believe you are right, Lugg. It's a mahonia.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2024 10:55:26 GMT
Looks good, Mark.
Vollkorn means whole wheat in German. I imagine corn is the old Saxon word for wheat. It posed problems for me in high school when we had to learn about the British corn laws of the 19th century (1830s?). Didn't realize for years that they meant wheat.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2024 7:35:56 GMT
I don't buy cookbooks any longer, just google recipes for whatever ingredients I have when I'm out of ideas.
But looking at the cover of that book on British cooking, I'm surprised to see a soft-boiled egg being given cover space as a great example of British food. Or is it the two pieces of toast that are typically British?
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 19:19:35 GMT
I had a problem with an amalgammed tooth recently as well. The material of the tooth and that of the amalgam don't have the same density so the tooth ended up cracking after many yaers, bacteria went inside the crack and it got infected. The dentist cleaned it all out and patched it all up with whatever now replaces amalgams.
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 19:16:01 GMT
I couldn't see it either. But I have a ceanothus in my garden.
Kimby, those look like ordinary violets but I don't see a pink one.
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 19:12:33 GMT
It looks like a great place for a walk with kids!
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 7:13:27 GMT
Daniel Craig British actor who played James Bond in a series of the films. Much less attractive than Sean Connery.
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 7:10:32 GMT
Porto Torres Town in Sardinia where ships from Genoa arrive. There is a wonderful archeological museum there.
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 7:07:24 GMT
It was sunny and 28° here yesterday too. This morning it's foggy and 15° at 9 am. Supposed to cool down this week.
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