Mundane News

[deptfordmarmoset]

ours, under our coffee table suffers the same issue. it has to reach a certain point before anyone, usually me, fixes it

Clockwise? I wonder whether southern hemisphere rugs rotate anticlockwise.

 

[biggs682]

I was going to go to Wellingborough today, but now I'm not.

I can't blame you
Sun's out

 

[biggs682]

Just been fitted with hearing aids. The difference is remarkable!

Pardon

 

[oldwheels]

Ours does the same Perhaps it was made in America and is trying to return home

I thought it was only me but any rugs in my house migrate to the front of the house and also go slightly clockwise. Strange but I was out yesterday visiting a house where they had put down a rug in the living room and it was also moving towards the window.
I put down a larger one once and let it wander and then it tried to climb up the wall.

 

[Reynard]

Lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with rillettes de porc, one with cream cheese, plus a minneola, a banana and the obligatory two

 

[Reynard]

Rug shiftage here seems to be down to the cats. Both girls love to kill the edges.

 

[oldwheels]

Rug shiftage here seems to be down to the cats. Both girls love to kill the edges.

No cats here nowadays and only me walking around so cannot blame anything visible.

 

[Reynard]

In a bid to work out what's causing my problems with FB and Messenger, I have installed Firefox - albeit an older version, as my ancient OS doesn't support the latest one.

It is v e r y slooooooooooow, but it does seem to work. And something is better than nothing.

Which would indicate that the problem appears to be some kind of software miscommunication between FB and Chrome. I was using the latest version of Chrome, but went back to a previous version the other day to see if it would make a difference (it didn't).

It's frustrating, but what can I do...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Good morning...

Somehow I managed to pull my upper back this morning; it's one of those sudden muscular things that will go away but needs time. After fighting with my conscience I've informed informed work and I'll make an appointment with the Doc later. I don't like taking a day off sick and if I only had a short commute I'd probably ignore it, but with a 40 min bike ride I don't want to risk it.

Went to the Doc and got a note until Wednesday. I'll see how I feel.

Also got my flu jab.

 

[Reynard]

It's not strictly a problem with Chrome, as I *still* can't comment on posts in FB when using Firefox.

Which points more to an issue with FB / Messenger. Wondering if their series of fixes after the Great Crash has typically ignored those of us using older OS...

 

[Kempstonian]

Lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with rillettes de porc, one with cream cheese, plus a minneola, a banana and the obligatory two

Isn't it 'rillettes du porc'? That's what came up when I Googled it (why do you eat so much stuff I have to Google? )

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Isn't it 'rillettes du porc'? That's what came up when I Googled it (why do you eat so much stuff I have to Google? )

There is probably a rule that makes it de and not du/de la but I couldn't tell you it. However, usage alone says ''rillettes de porc.'' And you'd say une tranche de pain rather than une tranche du pain.

 

[slowmotion]

Isn't it 'rillettes du porc'? That's what came up when I Googled it (why do you eat so much stuff I have to Google? )

Rillettes de porc, surely? Before we entered the long dark tunnel of parenthood, we used to eat lots of it under an olive tree in Provence. It was known as "dead rat". It tastes wonderful on a chunk of baguette with a tomato salad.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Looking into it, de and du are used either as a preposition or as an adjective. Or something. From https://www.rocketlanguages.com/forum/french-grammar/du-vs-de:

• 'Du' is used as a preposition meaning 'of' or as an adjective meaning 'any/some.'
• 'De' means 'of/from' in when relating to a noun.

I hope this example sentences help to clarify the difference between du and de.

• I'd like a slice of bread = Je voudrais une tranche de pain
• I'd like some bread = Je voudrais du pain

 

[Reynard]

Isn't it 'rillettes du porc'? That's what came up when I Googled it (why do you eat so much stuff I have to Google? )

Nope, it's not. That's down to French grammar having a gazillion exceptions to every rule going. In comparison, English grammar is stupid simple, but mum says the spelling is a right arse.

I used to doze off in French grammar lessons at school, because as a native speaker (albeit the Belgian dialect, which is to French what American English is to UK English) I could always work backwards from the way I knew something should be said.