I would just like to say

[Stanleysteamer]

Bought a 1/4 drive torque wrench, never even knew they did them that small. Was looking for a 3/8 one.

 

[Hippo]

Burn them and start again. Some varieties only live for one season, others will come back each year. But if they have been diseased best to burn them.

Eye dun't know if they is diseased. They regrow themselfs each year. Fink this is the furd year. Web ses the bugs suck the sap out which causes them to struggle.

 

[Wimblowdriver]

Eye dun't know if they is diseased. They regrow themselfs each year. Fink this is the furd year. Web ses the bugs suck the sap out which causes them to struggle.

In that case use a systemic bug killer. Works from inside the plant, kills the bugs when they suck the sap.

 

[Stone56]

There is a theory that it is a self portrait by the artist (L D'V) who liked to dress up as a wimmins. Look closely and you can see manly features in the face.

I bet he had a FL to

 

[Stone56]

I've just watched it, and he speaks the truth.

Any one in the world who only speaks one language is actually in a minority. A big minority but nevertheless.
Even W agreed with him.
The biggest problem is the one where he said "live the language" that actually isn't easy unless you go and live in the country.
I do know a guy who learned 4 languages in two years, he wanted to own his own transport company. So he lived in each of France, Spain Germany and Italy.
He also ended up with a French wife along the way. (I intorduced them!)
He soon did own the company, although he since gave it up and I lost touch so I don't know why.

What he DIDN'T say is that too many people are forced to learn it to pass exams and exams etc are written by old f@rts who demand precision in all forms of it. Not simple communication. THIS puts people off. And was the battle I had to face all the time.
I once had a student at A level who had only recently come from living in France. He spoke it perfectly, and perfectly colloquially. He also understood (listening comp) and read (Reading comp) perfectly. But his writing was poop. Sooooo many mistakes.
As I was the grammar teacher it fell to me to try and make him realise this.
He hated me and stopped coming to my lessons.

I would also take issue with one thing he said. That it is a myth that you have to be young to learn a language.
It has been proven that if you do not learn your first language before your brain develops you'll never be able to learn one. This has been proven by the few odd cases where a human baby or small child was left to die and ended up being brought up by wolves or monkeys or whatever. There were not many, but they got to adulthood never having learned a language and were never able to learn one. BUT, once you have learned one language then yes you can learn another.
But it does help to be young. 2 of our grandchildren are a case in point. Our son married a Japanese lady, their children both learned English and Japanese from birth, then they moved to France and learned French, the youngest one learning it faster than the eldest. Then they started to learn Chinese, for which the eldest won prizes.

All good fun!

Agreement with that Stan the W sister speaks 6 languages and has a BA in Russian and Latin but learnt high German but I speak Berliner so understanding her is difficult for me and Germans

 

[Stone56]

Wot do eye do wiv me lupins? Bugs have reduced but they is just stalks now. No flowers on nearly all ov thrm. Leefs have failed on most. Do eye cut them low down and hope they try again. Or cut them and they will come back next year.

Lupins are a short lived perennial need full Sun and moisture do not do well in pots cut them down and see if you get new growth , if you grow from seed now thay will flower next year Russel Hobbs mixed are hardey and colourful mature plants benefit from being divided every 3yrs to keep them vigorous, l have grown some from seed this year for planting out this Autumn

 

[Hippo]

 

[Stone56]

 

[DanClarke]

Morning All.
Not looking bad out there today.
Got to try and keep the kids amused all day.
School tomorrow and then their Mum picks them up them after school.
BBQ fillet with Garlic & rosemary roasties tonight. Yum!
Have a lovely day.

 

[kevstar]

Morning all suns oot im off to spray some weeds. Need to go out for some shopping but I know where theres a wee
car show so a wee detour will be required. (she will be pleased)

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Agreement with that Stan the W sister speaks 6 languages and has a BA in Russian and Latin but learnt high German but I speak Berliner so understanding her is difficult for me and Germans

Fascinating! I don't know much about regional dialects of Germany, but that lad I talked about also learned a dialect in German which helped him once when stopped by Der Polizei!!

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Agreement with that Stan the W sister speaks 6 languages and has a BA in Russian and Latin but learnt high German but I speak Berliner so understanding her is difficult for me and Germans

"Furthermore, a lot of Germans speak different dialects. The variation among the German dialects is considerable, with only the neighbouring dialects being mutually intelligible. Low German, most Upper German and High Franconian dialects, and even some Central German dialects when spoken in their purest form, are not intelligible to people who only know standard German."

Amazing!

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Should be on the Joke thread.

 

[Wimblowdriver]

"Furthermore, a lot of Germans speak different dialects. The variation among the German dialects is considerable, with only the neighbouring dialects being mutually intelligible. Low German, most Upper German and High Franconian dialects, and even some Central German dialects when spoken in their purest form, are not intelligible to people who only know standard German."

Amazing!

Reminds me of when I was at skool. We got a trainee French teacher, when she got off the ferry at Dover the bloke checking her passport asked her why she has come to England. She told him she was going to the North East to teach kids French. He replied you've got a job on there, they can't even speak English. She found out that was true

 

[saxavordian]

Reminds me of when I was at skool. We got a trainee French teacher, when she got off the ferry at Dover the bloke checking her passport asked her why she has come to England. She told him she was going to the North East to teach kids French. He replied you've got a job on there, they can't even speak English. She found out that was true

Oddly enough Geordie is like Dorset retain Anglo Saxon where Geordie area was not really invaded by vikings, allowed an accent separately from today modern English.
European language rely heavily on book language not influenced by outsiders so very gutteral. Like the French many educated classes were for the rich while peasants used dialects.
Ours changed because the kings Alfred John James Henry wanted the people of the land in local churches to understand the bible.
Hence our American cousins pilgrims were a protestant ethos. You look at the poorer area of Americas majority are Portuguese and Spanish Catholic.
While Monks from Europe Empirical popes taught Latin Greek to the kings and his ilk. While English laws was subjugated to French introduced by Normans the peasants retain Anglo Saxon laws of the lands.
The best thing English did was to take the Protestant ethos from Europe and develop a solid backbone spanning several centuries from Watt Tyler earlier maybe form of Luddites peasants revolt of the Dutch and German. While Catholic yoke was more dominant in Europe, the British was changing.

 

[saxavordian]

Recent image of the leader El Seamus known to frequent Ireland offering pots of gold.
His cohorts are a band of Leprechauns currently roaming the land starting fights in the local pubs.
If you drink several tankards of Guinness and feel a kick at your shins, try and stop the urge punch fellow punters in the pursuit of a leprechaun.




Ouch who kicked me come who kicked me. I'll take you all on yah bastard's

 

[landowner]

Does the truck tow the shed ok or issit under powered like a tratter?

It flies along easily, 2.7 turbo intercooled Nissan motor. Wheels spin in the wet

 

[Freddie17]

The guy talks non-stop

Pot / kettle?

 

[DanClarke]

...that the weekend has passed reasonably quietly.
Neither of the G-kids has killed the other, nor come to any harm while in our care.
I have to take them to school tomorrow, and their Mother picks them up at close of play.
We pick them up from school on Wednesday and their Dad will have arrived home that morning.
We are both a bit "over tired" from all the running around after the 11 & 8 year old and being on "high-alert" since Friday.
Good to get our space back to ourselves for a while I think.

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Reminds me of when I was at skool. We got a trainee French teacher, when she got off the ferry at Dover the bloke checking her passport asked her why she has come to England. She told him she was going to the North East to teach kids French. He replied you've got a job on there, they can't even speak English. She found out that was true

When I lived in Lunnen I knew a guy fro Noocassel, or thereaboots.
He had a Gfriend from Lunnen. Whenever they went oot they had to take paper and pen with them so he could write doon what he was tryin tu say to ur so shee cud unnerstan im like!!