Getting the balance right

LadyWithAPlan

That wild swim looks amazing!
You definitely need to look after yourself, your mental and physical health has to be put first including adventures. 
Sorry to hear re your OH but it sounds like you are facing that situation square on and starting to financially make plans and save  to look after yourself which is super important. 

beanielou

Must admit I don't use braw!

elantan

greent said:

Yep - braw is not used in England (well, certainly not down in Glos) - although I have a Glaswegian friend who educates me in all sorts of words used in Scotland. I love regional dialects  

aye weedgie itself has it's own words ... I speak kinda weedgie tbh, I meet a lot of people every day and very often they play guess where El is from, i was born in England but have lived all over so have accents from everywhere, i tend to speak a fair bit of weedgie with some fife, doric, welsh and English thrown into the mix 

It is important to remember that Scot's is a language all on it's own 

elantan

South_coast said:

I seem to be picking up a lot of Scottish just from the diaries on MFW 🤣!

I can think of worse ways to pick up a language   

elantan

badmemory said:

Which all goes to prove that the teaching of english lit has sunk over the years.  Alright so it has been over 60 years but what happened to - A braw bricht moonlit nicht the nicht?  Just showing off my memory here before dementia is a fact not a worry!  Worry intensified today as "friend" when asked this morning if I could borrow his carpet cleaner asked me if he had one.  He is a few weeks younger than me.  Scary time - asked my son who confirmed that is where we borrowed last time.  This second guessing is a killer!

That's what a certain Spice girl said, I still thought braw was universal lol

Aye my memory ain't so great either anymore sadly 

elantan

LadyWithAPlan said:

That wild swim looks amazing!
You definitely need to look after yourself, your mental and physical health has to be put first including adventures. 
Sorry to hear re your OH but it sounds like you are facing that situation square on and starting to financially make plans and save  to look after yourself which is super important. 

That's exactly what I'm doing, I have to do this, I can only work on thw things I can control, not the things I cant 

Swim and walk was exactly what I needed to push myself a wee bit harder after covid, still have a long way to go to get back to where I was pre covid and I want to get healthier than I was then, but it's a much needed start with a very patient friend 

South_coast

My hairdresser is from Glasgow, keep wondering if I'm brave enough to get her to say "There's been a murder...." 🤔🤣

savingholmes

I guessed at what braw meant and just checked and I was right. I too pick up all sorts of vocab here

beanielou

South_coast said:

My hairdresser is from Glasgow, keep wondering if I'm brave enough to get her to say "There's been a murder...." 🤔🤣

Go on!!! 

elantan

South_coast said:

My hairdresser is from Glasgow, keep wondering if I'm brave enough to get her to say "There's been a murder...." 🤔🤣

that would have me laughing     just dont do ye olde   FREEEEEEDOM that would dae me heid in