Daydream fund challenge part 4

greenbee

Davesnave wrote: »

"Garn, 'er still stops OK... " was the opinion I was offered, "Us've put discs on advisory....but ee can do 'er if you want."

I haven't seen Devonian so well written since I last read R.F. Delderfield :cool: In fact, you're lucky to live somewhere you can still find it spoken. I've noticed when I go back to Norfolk that there are very few people with a broad accent, and almost no dialect anymore.

Seeds have arrived safely. Thank you

Davesnave

greenbee wrote: »

I haven't seen Devonian so well written since I last read R.F. Delderfield :cool: In fact, you're lucky to live somewhere you can still find it spoken. I've noticed when I go back to Norfolk that there are very few people with a broad accent, and almost no dialect anymore.

Seeds have arrived safely. Thank you

I was paraphrasing, but the general delivery is accurate-ish. I agree, there aren't many who still speak the dialect 'properly.' I did a passable version as a child, as an ex-Londoner who wanted to fit in, but switched to standard English, at home and when I made it to grammar school.

The other main thing of note is it's a garage that goes out of its way to keep customers' costs down; almost unheard-of nowadays!

I'm waiting on the delivery of another 10 packets of seed from Derry at Special Plants. They may well arrive in the next half hour! :j
Hope the root canal stuff went quickly for you alfie....:eek: Can't realistically hope it was painless.:(

greenbee

I turned the compost before mowing the lawn today (I have tiny compost bins, I really do need to get on and build at least one big one from the pile of pallets I have stacked up waiting) and found two slow worms enjoying the warmth! The rain over the last few days has really helped everything rot down, so 4 bins are now into two, with a layer of new grass clippings on top. One bag of weed from the river and some new grass clippings are in a third. The stuff from weeding and dead-heading goes in the council garden waste collection.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Davesnave wrote: »

I was paraphrasing, but the general delivery is accurate-ish. I agree, there aren't many who still speak the dialect 'properly.' I did a passable version as a child, as an ex-Londoner who wanted to fit in, but switched to standard English, at home and when I made it to grammar school.

The other main thing of note is it's a garage that goes out of its way to keep customers' costs down; almost unheard-of nowadays!

I'm waiting on the delivery of another 10 packets of seed from Derry at Special Plants. They may well arrive in the next half hour! :j
Hope the root canal stuff went quickly for you alfie....:eek: Can't realistically hope it was painless.:(

Sounds like they did a proper job, Dave. Or should that be a 'praaper jaarb'?. Bet they said something like 'wher's she to?' if Mrs Dave wasn't around at the time...or I could be confusing some of this with the Janner side.


OH still falls into it. Makes my day when he does.



I have had a strange phone call. One from my brother's pension scheme, asking if they can send me a letter. I'm thinking that the silly sod put my details down as a dependant when I was 15 and never updated it - but you never could tell with him. He did rather like the idea of superheroes, although I thought he'd done his bit with that by carrying a donor card.

I shall wait and see. And possibly steel myself against angry messages from the [strike]vultures[/strike] others that were discussing potential Death in Service benefits at his bedside if there's any sniff of not having everything.

Davesnave

Us baint Janners, yer! They'm down Plymmoth way. Round yer, tis the Chiefs territory.:p

As a child, I migrated from London to Devon via Somerset and Dorset; the latter being where my re-learning of the spoken word began. Later, apart from 2 years back in London, I spent my working life in North Somerset, picking up some Bristle too. No wonder dialects often confuse me!

I was also an [STRIKE]odd[/STRIKE] eccentric child. I may have said before that I fancied the local librarian , so I spent much time in the library, reading the 'Transactions of the Devonshire Association,' which always had a section for Devonshire dialect words. Ms Librarian encouraged this sort of thing. I learned what "The cows hev got the brumps" meant. It wasn't half as rude as it sounds.

In the 60s - 80s, the dialects began to die out. The accents remain, but even farmers like Pete had the 'be' and the baint' knocked out of them at school. 'Her' is still heard. (as in "Her's a pretty maid!") but sentences like "Us baint g'win." (We are not going) are hardly heard now.

We've been homogenised!

in_my_wellies

greenbee wrote: »

I've noticed when I go back to Norfolk that there are very few people with a broad accent, and almost no dialect anymore.

Mum is from Norfolk and meets up with friends from Norfolk, all well over 85, for 'a meal and mardle' once a month. Lovely to sit and listen when they get going but I agree more accent than dialect

Davesnave

Rain!!!!! Proper stair rods too. But will it last?

Last night, thanks to the promise of copious amounts of H2O, I whizzed down to the stream with a spade and spent an hour digging a channel into the mud in its bed, all of which has built up in the last few years.

The problem is on the neighbour's land, just beyond the fence, where he's done no maintenance for ages. It's fairly flat there and the water spreads out, dropping its load of silt in flood conditions,which is now happening on our side due to backing-up. There used to be some rocks over which the water tumbled, but I found those buried, half a spade or more below the current (dry) surface.

Anyway, the idea is to channel the water down this narrow gully in the sandy silt in the hope that helping it to move faster will give it energy to shift some of the neighbour's sand bar. Probably a forlorn hope, though!

No, he's not the sort to let me 'interfere' on his property. He also has an able-bodied son who could help him around the place.....'could' being the operative word. :undecided

choille

Good luck with the digging Dave.

The rain came here last week & it was biblical. It was so hot these last few days & now low cloud & drizzle - so back to normal.

I have got a load of cleg bites that are bothersome. Loads of them about just now.

Davesnave

We had plenty of very welcome rain, but nowhere near enough to set the stream going properly; there was a trickle. Shouldn't complain when others in Yorkshire are being inundated and we're having the sort of summer the tourists enjoy.:cool:

Things look more unsettled next week, though.

Spent the wet time yesterday on the dreaded paperwork, including final details of our insurance here. Very impressed with Cornish Mutual, who not only sent two attractive young ladies, one training the other, to look at the premises, but also delivered similar cover £100 cheaper.

The other 'farming' type insurer we were using failed to respond to my call about the £45 increase they slapped on us, while the outfit carrying the Mole Valley Farmers badge took a week to respond after my enquiry. I can't believe how bad some British businesses are!

The cleg bites don't seem to bother me now, but one had DW the other day and she reacted badly. Swallows have bred successfully, so they must be mopping-up a few as they quarter the fields. Nothing like the numbers we used to see, here or in the village, and others have commented in the local rag.

in_my_wellies

I've noticed the low numbers of swallows this year so I was delighted that a new nest appeared this year under the end gable. There's always been a nest on the other two sides, no idea why the last gable hasn't been used until this year. All the nests appear successful, fingers crossed for next year.

My stream is also a trickle and I do need to get my wellies on and tidy it up a bit. I can usually get a handy visitor to help but not this year. The grass is growing too quickly right down to the edges.

I have ordinary home insurance, renewal £444 was reduced to £151 in a three minute phone call. I always compare then ring up but this was the biggest reduction ever. They blamed it on the fact that when they 'updated their computer systems' my property was noted as having 0 bathrooms and because this was unusual the price went up.

I wasn't going to bother with brassicas this year but then planted a few rows - kale, sprouts, sprouting broc. When I was away up in Leicestershire picking strawberries something, probably a badger walked through/over/trampled the netting. All tidied up but opened just long enough for the cabbage whites to do their worst so this week despite removing dozens some plants are reduced to stalks.

I'm trying to work out if one of the hens is very clever or very stupid. All from one rescue flock but she is always last, always 5 meters behind the others, running to catch up. At first I though she's a bit slow but now I thinks she's realised I'll give her an extra tip bit to get her where I need her.