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Post by htmb on Aug 20, 2020 1:32:54 GMT
Good for you, questa! Duolingo is a wonderful tool, run by what seems like a super group of people.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 22, 2020 12:31:39 GMT
HAIRCUT! WHOOO WHOOP !
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Post by questa on Aug 22, 2020 14:02:12 GMT
Looks good to me!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 22, 2020 14:44:07 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2020 14:58:55 GMT
I can see your little corona viruses trying to break through the mask and not succeeding!
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Post by casimira on Aug 22, 2020 15:38:08 GMT
It looks great Cheery!! I briefly entertained having mine cut short very much like yours just the other day. But, I didn't do it because every time I have gone to short hair I remember that in order for it to look right I keep having to go and get it cut again. So, the shoulder length sweep it up into a bun for me until the urge hits me again.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 22, 2020 16:22:39 GMT
Looks great to me too.
I had my hair cut here in south east france.
I went to bed at 1 30 am. Woke up for good at 1 30 pm. Had a siesta... I guess i was tired.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2020 16:54:03 GMT
Looking good, Cheery!
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 22, 2020 17:58:33 GMT
Looks great to me too. I had my hair cut here in south east france. I went to bed at 1 30 am. Woke up for good at 1 30 pm. Had a siesta... I guess i was tired. It wouldn’t matter what time I went to bed. I would still wake up and get up at the same time. Except when I go to Spain...
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Post by htmb on Aug 22, 2020 18:08:16 GMT
Cheery, your haircut looks great! I wish I could wear my hair short like that, but it just doesn’t want to cooperate. I hate having it on my face when the weather is warm or when I’m exercising, so try to keep it long enough to pull back in a clip or tie. Gave myself a trim yesterday. I’m getting better at it, I think.
I’m usually a terrible sleeper (5-6 hours a night is a good night) but now that I have a new filter in my central air unit, I’m sleeping much better. It turns out our roofers opened up the attic where the unit is housed, so that added even more dust and debris to the filter. Anyway, I fell asleep on the sofa early last night, made it up to bed about 9 PM and slept soundly until 8:00 AM. A new recent-times sleep record for me.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 22, 2020 18:20:57 GMT
I sleep pretty well about one night in three. I don't stress too much about the lack of sleep on the other nights as long as I don't have appointments or anything the following day. I often come downstairs to read, watch TV or go on social media until I'm ready to go back up to bed. Also I listen to the World Service or Radio 4Extra on the radio most nights...with an earphone so that I don't disturb Jeff.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 22, 2020 18:22:08 GMT
I would say that my visit to the salon was quite pricy...a good 20% more expensive than my last visit.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2020 18:24:04 GMT
At the place where I go on my street, they added 2 euros to their previous prices for covid.
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Post by mossie on Aug 22, 2020 19:33:33 GMT
Going back to sleep habits, I am now very regular, go to bed about 10, get up 3 or 4 times during the night to pee and drop off to sleep quickly each time, wake up before 7 so i can turn the TV on for the 7am news, then get up when i get fed up with the waffle.
But I have always been a good sleeper who can sleep anywhere if the occasion demands. i suppose a year of shift work and then irregular duties when I was in the RAF taught me how. Not forgetting some of the war period when one would be puzzling whether the bangs were our guns or their evil bombs.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 23, 2020 1:33:11 GMT
Got my 2nd haircut since February 11. She has raised her price by $5 to $40 for a shampoo, cut, blowout and style. I really only need a cut every 8 weeks or so, to keep my ends from getting “crunchy”. But I like visiting with my longtime hairdresser who’s become a friend. We both wore masks and I texted her when I was parked so she could let me come in when her previous client had left.
I don’t mind paying a little more for a cut since COVID has saved me so much on coloring/foiling: turns out I now have enough white hairs that my blonde is growing out without roots!
One part of aging I can appreciate!
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 23, 2020 7:28:48 GMT
In my first job I had to get up so early the only thing on was the shipping forecast. Used to listen to that every morning. There has always been something special about it.
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Post by casimira on Aug 23, 2020 11:42:50 GMT
There was a time and it was during the early years of APIAS when I would sleep only 5 hours and then at about 4:30 a.m. I would login here. Dear Henning would almost always be on here at the same time. I think he was posting from his workplace. That was when we got to be buddies. I cherish those memories of him still.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 23, 2020 19:00:26 GMT
Henning was a lovely man, I didn't get to know him well but I remember his fascinating threads. I often listen to the shipping forecast Mark In my head I follow the stations around the coastal waters...I know how long there is left by where the reader is on the map. Great way to drop off to sleep too...
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 23, 2020 19:08:57 GMT
And I listened to the "météo marine" in France. The bulletins were full of Cromarty, Circéo, Iroise, Pazenn or Fisher Bank. I was mesmerised by the exotic names. It went off the air in 2017.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 23, 2020 19:41:23 GMT
Face masks are the new litter.
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Post by casimira on Aug 23, 2020 23:39:22 GMT
Yeah, you got that right. I see them on my morning and evening walks. Usually the flimsy blue medical ones. An awful sign of these times.
That listening to the shipping news sounds to be so comforting. I would love something like that to lull me to sleep.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 24, 2020 5:19:24 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Aug 24, 2020 12:58:32 GMT
I am DISGUSTED by people leaving used masks on the streets, pavements or just anywhere, and at the same time, don't want to pick them up.
We get BBC news service programming on CBC in the wee hours, and programming from France and francophone countries on Radio-Canada.
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Post by casimira on Aug 24, 2020 13:53:32 GMT
WOW!!! Thank you Patrick!! How cool is that? What a prince you are to post that.
Our National Public Radio station here does an hour long segment of the BBC News at least once a day, I think it might be twice. One is from 6 a.m. to 7 before their regularly scheduled programming comes on. I love listening to it if only just to hear the accents. I know their are many but I've always been a sucker for listening to men and women too with I guess what is called a proper British accent. All my favorite movies and Masterpiece Theater productions are British as well as many of the various detective series that I always find myself streaming.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 24, 2020 14:33:25 GMT
I always liked my audiobooks read by an English narrator and was quite snobby about it for a while, hearing fantasy novels read in an American accent just felt wrong (sorry) BUT I've listened to quite a few science fiction books of late narrated by some superb American actors....and they were excellent. Not so snobby now...I'm ashamed at how prejudiced I was! Got several favourite narrators now including many American actors. However the best so far has been Michael Sheen (Welsh) reading Philip Pullman's latest books.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 24, 2020 14:57:46 GMT
I've always been a sucker for listening to men and women too with I guess what is called a proper British accent. Hee hee ~ the other day I was watching Garden Rescue & one half of the couple whose garden was getting the treatment was Canadian. She had that generic accent which can't be specified as either Canadian or US, but with very crisp diction, probably because she was an opera singer. Anyway, there she was surrounded by Charlie's fluting tones, the Rich Brothers' soft voices, and her husband's pleasant "regular" English delivery. As soon as she opened her mouth I thought, "Oh, that sounds awful!" Regardless, I won't be doing a Madonna & changing my accent. the best so far has been Michael Sheen (Welsh) Oh well ~ the Welsh! Richard Burton!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 24, 2020 15:04:31 GMT
She had that generic accent which can't be specified as either Canadian or US Are you really unable to distinguish Canadian accents from American accents?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 24, 2020 15:12:10 GMT
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. There is a generic form of English that's pretty common to both countries.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 24, 2020 15:16:45 GMT
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Post by fumobici on Aug 24, 2020 15:23:51 GMT
I live spitting distance from the Washington State/British Columbia border and there a small and diminishing linguistic difference between the two sides. Older canucks had a distinctly Canadian accent; younger ones probably have watched too many US movies and TV shows and it has become pretty much indistinguishable. Some would no doubt consider this tragic. Count me as among those who don't.
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