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PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
Location
Hamtun
Bin's bin emptied. Garden has been tidied up a bit and some tender plants have been put in a cold frame to keep the frost off..
 
It's a mostly bright, sunny and still day here chez Casa Reynard. It's definitely nippier, but it doesn't feel too bad.

Slept well after another evening feeling meh, but the tapdancing heffalumps are heading out of the building at last. This morning's tasks included emptying the ash from the grate, going through my cupboard of tinned goods because I'd just got into the habit of throwing stuff in there without looking at what I had (I have eleven cans of peas, five cans of coconut milk and eight cans of chopped tomatoes, but only one can of baked beans and two cans of tuna...), and making a pot of stock from the cooked bacon joint I bought last week. I'll be making soup with that stock this afternoon.

This afternoon, I also need to split some logs and stock up the wood bins in the house. Might get some writing done, and of course there will be plenty of football to watch.

Anyways, it is almost time for luncheon.
 
With the number of people here learning German I reckon I should start CC language exchange seminars:

Two weeks in the Breisgau, flat, lots of cycle lanes, next to the Black Forest and France, Language training in the morning and practical experience, in the form of guided cycle tours in the afternoons.

Sounds cool. :okay:

I'd be quite happy to provide the culinary elements of such exchanges. ^_^
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
Frustratingly lost wifi/powerline connection in the garage. Lots of faffing to deduct that the powerline adapter has gone very flaky (reset etc). Pulled it out, then discovered my Garage BT Mesh disk's ethernet socket can be used to connect wired devices to the wifi (google to the rescue) - I only thought it was for a 'backbone' to connect to the main hub. Both the garage PC and CCTV are working again (both ethernet). What a faff.

Powerline adapter going in bin and that saved me £40 for another.
 

tom73

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Email from work just arrived letting us know time sheets need signing off and approved by finance by tomorrow to get paid before Christmas. Great notice it's not going to happen no pay next mouth then :sad:. Pre approval hours forms need filling in too, That will be the form we can only fill-in once we've work the hours re timesheet , :wacko: Think it's time for:cuppa:
 

mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
I've had to teach German to refugees here. This was great fun because German was the only language I could be sure any of them spoke, and translations often went from Arabic or Syrian to Turkish to Kurdish or vice versa; occasionally we'd then have to translate to a Kurdish dialect. Mostly I'd take things with me into the lessons, including on one occasion my touring bike which sat on a desk while we translated the names of the parts.

Ironically I'm absolutely awful at learning languages; I just scraped a "C" in GCSE German and failed German at AS level.

I'm not going to tell you about my French grades.

You passed a foreign language exam! That's brilliant in my book!

In my defence, I did enter the school at 11 when the rest of the class had been doing French & Latin for at least 2 years.
 
Had a lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with ham & mustard, one with camembert, plus an apple, a tangerine, some pineapple and two :cuppa:

Wood bins have been stocked, soup's on the go and I've just bum-parked to watch some footy.
 
You passed a foreign language exam! That's brilliant in my book!

In my defence, I did enter the school at 11 when the rest of the class had been doing French & Latin for at least 2 years.

I had a German exam when I took my cabinet makers apprenticeship.

It had a storytelling option. I'm not a great linguist but I can tell a good story; I'm still pretty sure it was this distracting the teacher from my grammatical errors that got me a pass.

As an added advantage, it meant I didn't have to take an extra language and citizenship test for my naturalisation.
 

mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
It took a year before people here stopped replying in English. I still have trouble with dialects which are very strong and very localised.

I spent 18 weeks in the Netherlands at about this time of year maintaining teleprinters. I thought I might have the opportunity to learn some Dutch. No chance, they all wanted to practice their English! We had a long discussion about the word 'arc' one day. It was a while before I realised that they were talking about an electric one!

And I think I discovered why my grandfather, a fisherman/seaman from Wivenhoe, used the phrase "H O T warm".
 

mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
Confused the dog this morning got 1/2 way on the his walk then remembered i'd left my head touch. So back we went no off lead run to the gate or find the biscuit once though the gate. Soon back out and normal end of walk fun. In other news another cold morning time to dig out the heated gloves.

I find a head torch essential for walking the dog in the dark. Especially when picking up things.
 

mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
Just got a call from the deputy manager:

"Andy, can you come to the office? We need to talk."

Oh cr*p

Ran to office wondering what I'd done wrong now. Everything was fine ten minutes ago.

Arrive in office. DM:

"Frau____________ is off sick for the week and Frau ___________ is also sick until December, we need to sort out staffing until the weekend"

And.... Breathe.

Sounds good, you're obviously the goto person.

With the number of people here learning German I reckon I should start CC language exchange seminars:

Two weeks in the Breisgau, flat, lots of cycle lanes, next to the Black Forest and France, Language training in the morning and practical experience, in the form of guided cycle tours in the afternoons.

Only if there are no hills.
 
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