Is it just me, or is it a bit on the decrepit and moldy side around here today?
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Is it just me, or is it a bit on the decrepit and moldy side around here today?
It's Thursday morning where I am, and it doesn't seem like many of you folks were very active while I was sleeping.
Is it a holiday over there somewhere in the U.K., or is the nation in mourning since Andy Murray got knocked out so early at Wimbledon, or is there really that big a deal over Mick Jagger's soiled underwear?
(I know we have a national holiday coming up here in the states, but for some reason I don't think it would really be a big hoopla across the pond.)
Is it a holiday over there somewhere in the U.K., or is the nation in mourning since Andy Murray got knocked out so early at Wimbledon, or is there really that big a deal over Mick Jagger's soiled underwear?
(I know we have a national holiday coming up here in the states, but for some reason I don't think it would really be a big hoopla across the pond.)
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I am NOT clicking that link! *shudders*
I've been reading The Silkworm by JK Rowling all day.
I've been reading The Silkworm by JK Rowling all day.
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Lucy McGough wrote:I am NOT clicking that link! *shudders*
Actually, it's a link to an article from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ about a historic country house called Knebworth.
(Honest! I don't know enough about Hertfordshire to make that up!)
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That is a nice house.
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Probably just a small summer cottage . . .Lucy McGough wrote:That is a nice house.
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It must be amazing to live in a place like that.
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But the upkeep is probably draining . . . and do they have satellite TV reception?Lucy McGough wrote:It must be amazing to live in a place like that.
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In answer to the original question, I'm rarely around that much Thursday through Saturday. Those are my busiest days.
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And I'm volunteering in a hospital today.
Lucy Ingram- Posts : 2447
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Today I'll do some shopping (med-related and food stuff) and then hang around at home waiting for Arthur to finish passing by.
Then tomorrow (Saturday), I'll FINALLY have a chance to go get comic books for this week. (I'd try today, but the weather is questionable and I don't know if the store will be open today.)
Then tomorrow (Saturday), I'll FINALLY have a chance to go get comic books for this week. (I'd try today, but the weather is questionable and I don't know if the store will be open today.)
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/04/us/holiday-weather/tony ingram wrote:Who is Arthur?
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Ah. News of that seems to have completely passed us by.
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That's what we're expecting Arthur to do . . . but it will mess with weather patterns and fronts around where I am.tony ingram wrote:Ah. News of that seems to have completely passed us by.
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Time to batten down the hatches, by the sound of it. Good luck!
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'Arthur' is far too polite a name to belong to something that will inflict any major damage.
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Lucy McGough wrote:'Arthur' is far too polite a name to belong to something that will inflict any major damage.
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I stand corrected.
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I actually am sitting down most of the time when I'm using the computer . . .Lucy McGough wrote:I stand corrected.
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Most of the time I'm standing, but right now I'm sitting.
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Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
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I don't have a life
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That's why you should be on line more.Lucy McGough wrote:I don't have a life
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Are we done with that "Middle of Summer" thing yet?tony ingram wrote:Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
And I thought I saw that today (Monday the 25th where I am, though it's already Tuesday in the UK) was a "Bank Holiday" except for Scotland. Does that mean bankers got a chance to go on fabulous vacations with the money people deposit in banks except in Scotland because people there are . . . frugal?
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No, it just means that nobody could get anything done because the banks were shut so the country ground to a halt for a day. Last bank holiday until Christmas, though.
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Then what is the point of a "bank holiday"? Does it give them a day to focus on cooking the books or something?tony ingram wrote:No, it just means that nobody could get anything done because the banks were shut so the country ground to a halt for a day. Last bank holiday until Christmas, though.
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It's an old tradition. Usually, they were dedicated to saints.MajorHoy wrote:Then what is the point of a "bank holiday"? Does it give them a day to focus on cooking the books or something?tony ingram wrote:No, it just means that nobody could get anything done because the banks were shut so the country ground to a halt for a day. Last bank holiday until Christmas, though.
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Were they? I never knew that.
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tony ingram wrote:It's an old tradition. Usually, they were dedicated to saints.MajorHoy wrote:Then what is the point of a "bank holiday"? Does it give them a day to focus on cooking the books or something?
Though what connection there is between banking and saints is beyond me . . .Lucy McGough wrote:Were they? I never knew that.
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There isn't one. They are simply public holidays, but they are called bank holidays because the banks are closed on them. The banks used to close on the official holidays of (according to Wikipedia) "about 33 saints or religious festivals", but the government considered this slightly riduculous and ordered the number reduced. Initially, it was dropped to four: Christmas Day, Good Friday, May Day and All Saints Day. Then they passed the Bank Holidays Act of 1871 which added in a few more-Easter Monday, Boxing Dy, Whit Monday and, for some reason, the first Monday in August (which has since been moved to the last Monday in Agust). All Saints Day was dropped, and since then New Year's Day has been added.MajorHoy wrote:tony ingram wrote:It's an old tradition. Usually, they were dedicated to saints.MajorHoy wrote:Then what is the point of a "bank holiday"? Does it give them a day to focus on cooking the books or something?Though what connection there is between banking and saints is beyond me . . .Lucy McGough wrote:Were they? I never knew that.
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So, after the 26th of October, things should start perking up a wee bit more around here?tony ingram wrote:Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
(And how many people commonly say "estuary"? I know what one is . . . I use to work in one . . . but still, . . . )
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It's a word in common usage around here, at least. And have you never heard of Estuary English?MajorHoy wrote:So, after the 26th of October, things should start perking up a wee bit more around here?tony ingram wrote:Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
(And how many people commonly say "estuary"? I know what one is . . . I use to work in one . . . but still, . . . )
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Uh, dude, why would we have heard of that here across the pond? I doubt people would have that accent in da Bronx or Jersey. (Translation: The Bronx, a borough of New York City; the State of New Jersey.)tony ingram wrote:It's a word in common usage around here, at least. And have you never heard of Estuary English?MajorHoy wrote:So, after the 26th of October, things should start perking up a wee bit more around here?tony ingram wrote:Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
(And how many people commonly say "estuary"? I know what one is . . . I use to work in one . . . but still, . . . )
And many people don't realize the state where I live (Connecticut) may have a coast line, but it doesn't lie on the Atlantic Ocean. (It's an estuary named The Long Island Sound.)
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My village is right on the end of the Shotley peninsula, a spit of land bordered by the rivers Stour and Orwell, which both open out into the North Sea between the ports of Felixstowe (in Suffolk) and Harwich (in Essex). So, we have estuaries on both sides of Shotley Gate.MajorHoy wrote:Uh, dude, why would we have heard of that here across the pond? I doubt people would have that accent in da Bronx or Jersey. (Translation: The Bronx, a borough of New York City; the State of New Jersey.)tony ingram wrote:It's a word in common usage around here, at least. And have you never heard of Estuary English?MajorHoy wrote:So, after the 26th of October, things should start perking up a wee bit more around here?tony ingram wrote:Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
(And how many people commonly say "estuary"? I know what one is . . . I use to work in one . . . but still, . . . )
And many people don't realize the state where I live (Connecticut) may have a coast line, but it doesn't lie on the Atlantic Ocean. (It's an estuary named The Long Island Sound.)
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tony ingram wrote:And have you never heard of Estuary English?
I have, actually. But I took a course in History of the English Language. Was pretty fascinating.
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