We all need to be heard for a little while.

tea_lover

Saucy! :D

Pyxis

I might buy some sheet music, if I can find some nice arrangements!

Or another Chambers Dictionary, so I can have one upstairs as well as downstairs!

(I know, weird I am! )





We had firemen last week! After a minor mishap in my neighbour's house!
Trouble was, two of them were fire-ladies! Lovely to see women doing the job, but not so much fun to look at! Not for me, anyway!

jobbingmusician

My original idea for £25 was a nice meal and bottle of wine, which we could have in the garden on the first nice day (come to think of it, I need to buy some new garden chairs and a table first, oops!)


I do like the garden plants idea, though.......


Very surprised about the Chambers Dictionary - don't you use such things online? (It goes without saying, in our house, that we have a computer in every room :eek:)

Pyxis

jobbingmusician wrote: »

My original idea for £25 was a nice meal and bottle of wine, which we could have in the garden on the first nice day (come to think of it, I need to buy some new garden chairs and a table first, oops!)


I do like the garden plants idea, though.......


Very surprised about the Chambers Dictionary - don't you use such things online? (It goes without saying, in our house, that we have a computer in every room :eek:)

I don't like online dictionaries! They're ok in an emergency, but I find they don't cut the mustard.



The fast party's going ok, although the worst time will be this eve.
Just thought, a real fast party would be very cheap!

onomatopoeia99

Pyxis wrote: »

Or another Chambers Dictionary, so I can have one upstairs as well as downstairs!

If it's something you refer to a lot, then that seems entirely sensible!

I have a good size OED, but have maybe looked at it half a dozen times in the last decade, if that. Only dictionaries that I refer to are my English-Italian ones, as they do a rather better job that google translate.

whitewing

Share those fireman out!

Ice cream is a great idea, actually.

I have been a bit naughty. I rang whatever the NHS is called these days to ask about swapping my antid medicine to the evening instead of the morning. I waited for ages and then got cut off. So I did it anyway. (The main issue being that I am on the slow-release type). It's great in that I haven't missed a dose now. The only thing is that if I am late with the evening meal then I can get a wave of nausea. I WOULD NOT ENCOURAGE ANYONE TO DO THIS WITHOUT CONSULTING THE GP, ESPECIALLY IF YOUR SYMPTOMS ARE BAD.

DH thinks I should go back to mornings. I think my slight 'down' is due to current stressful external events. I will speak to the doctor soon.

Pyxis

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

dictionaries that I refer to are my English-Italian ones, as they do a rather better job that google translate.

Snap! I've got loads of Italian-English and vv dictionaries, including an ancient Garzanti bought in 1968, and a more modern giant Garzanti, which I call 'il mattone' bought when I resumed learning Italian 7 years ago!
Are you learning or already fluent?

lostinrates

Haven't read back but serving conversation about online dictionaries for languages. Fir uses word reference.com when struggling. ( as do some of his peers who work in foreign languages and need something on the fly sometimes....) I use fir.

Waves_and_Smiles

Whitewing, my psychiatrist told me that it is advised to take slow-release anti-depressants in the morning because they can make you feel hyperactive for a while afterwards and stop them sleeping. With me being odd, they actually make me drowsy so I always take mine at night. It doesn't seem to alter the mood-lifting properties.

I am really glad you and MR JM were interested in my long post, JM! I don't want to bore people but I figure it might be useful to someone to read about the rarer immune disorders and it keeps me occupied!

Well, the invasion continues! All of the smoke alarms are being replaced with heat detectors. The fireman said our current smoke alarms are very cheap and guessed that they go off constantly. Heat detectors won't cause this problem.

The electricians do not like the wiring to the kitchen sockets so are ripping them out. The current is fluctuating so they need to connect everything differently.

So, now I wait to be told when these two things will be happening, the previous landlord was clearly a disaster. I will be having a tantrum in the duvet fort if anyone needs me.

onomatopoeia99

Pyxis wrote: »

Snap! I've got loads of Italian-English and vv dictionaries, including an ancient Garzanti bought in 1968, and a more modern giant Garzanti, which I call 'il mattone' bought when I resumed learning Italian 7 years ago!
Are you learning or already fluent?

I have a Collins that comes with me to lessons (and work, so I can do my homework in my lunch break) and at home a rather larger and older harback one by Cassell (bought 2nd hand on Amazon) which used to be a library book - it still has the insert inside the front cover saying it's not to be removed from the reference section! Are Garzanti good? I haven't looked into them at all.

I'm learning and far from fluent . In my fourth year of evening classes, run by the Bristol City Council adult learning service and currently trying to get to grips with the subjunctive / conjuntivo (present and passato). Guess you're rather further along than me.

I can manage conversation about various things, our teacher (who is excellent) often gets us to give views on events in the news, which can get rather philosophical at times and really streches us, trying to communicate thoughts and ideas.

Mu goal is to be able to watch an episode of Montalbano without subtitles and understand it all . Long way off that yet, comprehension of dialogue at full Italian speed is a far away dream at the moment!