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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Doric where Hamish is from. I can't speak it but can recognise and understand some of it.
Fit like min, hoos yer doos?
Michty me, at Brit's a tumshie, caeryan oan aboot craishin hoose preeces, am fair dancin mad aboot it.
Fit a knapdarloch.
Far aboots ye fae onywae, at ye cannae spik doric?
Nae Glesga?
Aye, it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht in the deen, ye ken, but ye'll be droochit if yon rain starts pishing doon.
Onywae, am awa tae hae a wee dram the noo.
Hamish“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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Had a strange day yesterday. I was with a friend in Harpenden (my friend lives there so knows the town well) when we were asked for directions to the grave of a French man in one of the local churches.
Apparently the latest Robert Harris book, based on the Dreyfus Affair, has this guy as the villain of the story, which he was in real life. The people we met were convinced that Harpenden was going to become a tourist attraction, with people coming to see where he hid. So after a while, and a bit of research, my friend and I tracked down the grave and were stood looking at it. The man was living under an assumed name and was buried under that name, not his real one.
I won't say more about the person's identity as it may spoil the book for people, but I can't wait to read it now. Robert Harris is one of the few fiction authors that I read, which makes the fact I was approached with my friend even weirder. Furthermore, the person in question was not nice, he remained anti Semitic even under his assumed name, I wonder how the residents of the town will feel about the area being associated with him.
Sitting at home last night researching him was nevertheless fascinating. I enjoy history and Harris is very good at bringing it to life.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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I suspect if you asked the average Harpenden resident whether the town would like to see some tourist income they would politely decline as they don't need it.I think....0
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I suspect if you asked the average Harpenden resident whether the town would like to see some tourist income they would politely decline as they don't need it.
Ha ha, very true. It's not exactly Blackpool.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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PasturesNew wrote: »Early morning bookings are part of the bread/butter of cabbies. It'd be worthwhile phoning to get some quotes.
I'll suggest it to him, I don't think he's ever considered it, really.PasturesNew wrote: »When I hear "Irish" I never know if that's North or South. One person I'd be interested in tracing is allegedly "Irish" and in that instance I've no clue whether that means North, South, or comes from Liverpool area and has an Irish accent...
My Granny used to say things like, "you can't trust the IRA, they're Irish. Look at my father, he was Irish, and you certainly couldn't trust HIM."
Any attempt to point out that her father was an orangeman, from Belfast, and therefore not exactly at one with the IRA, was taken as mere pedantry. Although her father certainly was a waste of space, in parental terms, it seemed a bit hard to hold it against an entire country, plus part of another country, too.On the equine accident I referred to earlier this week. The accident was not on a bend but on a part of the road with good visibility.The driver is local and is partially sighted.:eek:
They have apparently now surrendered their licence. Such a selfish b*stard. I know losing the freedom of driving must be awful but driving when you cannot see . !!!!!!.
Is he facing prosecution? He should be!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
It's good to give the au pair a room tucked away in a corner somewhere as it gives them a little more privacy and somewhere to hide away when it all gets too much.
Do you already have the au pair, or is she a future prospect?I see the spread of St George's flags as normal and healthy. Australia and Israel are (I'd imagine) probably places where you can fly a flag without raising an eyebrow - is that the case?
You certainly see a lot of stars of David in blue and white around the place.I grew up in Wales. About 3% of my school population spoke welsh as a first language. They acted so superior over it, particularly in conversing in welsh with welsh speaking teachers, that the rest of us would be happy to have been called british and forget our origins. Such a shame really, looking back.
In the north or the south of Wales?
My paternal ancestry is northern Wales, from Denbigh and Angelsey. My paternal grandmother had a similar annoyance with people who were smug about being Welsh speakers, when she and my grandfather ran a B & B in Betws-y-Coed after he retired. My grandfather could speak some Welsh, and so was treated less rudely by some, apparently....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Do you already have the au pair, or is she a future prospect?
Not currently but we've had several in the past, mostly successfully, and plan to again in future.0 -
Not currently but we've had several in the past, mostly successfully, and plan to again in future.
We had several, from when I was 3 or so, until we were all big enough and ugly enough to manage without. My mother said it was a huge blessing, to be able to nip to the shops, or to take one child somewhere, without having to cart all 4 of us around. Ours were all Swiss-German; the first came from an agency, the second was a cousin of the first, and then the rest were friends / sisters / cousins etc of each others'....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »We had several, from when I was 3 or so, until we were all big enough and ugly enough to manage without. My mother said it was a huge blessing, to be able to nip to the shops, or to take one child somewhere, without having to cart all 4 of us around. Ours were all Swiss-German; the first came from an agency, the second was a cousin of the first, and then the rest were friends / sisters / cousins etc of each others'.
I guess you get a lot of that in those little mountain communities that are cut off all winter...sort of Norfolk with mountains....I think....0 -
I guess you get a lot of that in those little mountain communities that are cut off all winter...sort of Norfolk with mountains....
Honestly, your mind......
They could all ski from practically birth, so they weren't cut off much! When we went to visit our first au pair's family for New Year one year, I was 4, and her brother who was a year older than I was could ski like a champ already. My parents were astonished.
OTOH, I could read, and his parents were half astonished, half horrified, as children don't learn to read in Switzerland until they are about 7, and start primary school....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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