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Post by MajorHoy Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:41 pm

It's Thursday morning where I am, and it doesn't seem like many of you folks were very active while I was sleeping.  Sleep 

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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Post by Lucy Ingram Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:10 pm

I am NOT clicking that link! *shudders*

I've been reading The Silkworm by JK Rowling all day.
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Post by MajorHoy Thu Jul 03, 2014 7:04 pm

Lucy McGough wrote:I am NOT clicking that link! *shudders*

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Actually, it's a link to an article from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ about a historic country house called Knebworth.

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(Honest! I don't know enough about Hertfordshire to make that up!)
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Post by Lucy Ingram Thu Jul 03, 2014 7:55 pm

That is a nice house.
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Post by MajorHoy Thu Jul 03, 2014 8:48 pm

Lucy McGough wrote:That is a nice house.
Probably just a small summer cottage . . .
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Post by Lucy Ingram Thu Jul 03, 2014 9:17 pm

It must be amazing to live in a place like that.
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Post by MajorHoy Thu Jul 03, 2014 9:25 pm

Lucy McGough wrote:It must be amazing to live in a place like that.
But the upkeep is probably draining . . . and do they have satellite TV reception?
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Post by tony ingram Fri Jul 04, 2014 6:36 am

In answer to the original question, I'm rarely around that much Thursday through Saturday. Those are my busiest days.
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Post by Lucy Ingram Fri Jul 04, 2014 7:48 am

And I'm volunteering in a hospital today.
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Post by MajorHoy Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:24 pm

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.)
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Post by tony ingram Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:32 pm

Who is Arthur?
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Post by tony ingram Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:53 pm

Ah. News of that seems to have completely passed us by.
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Post by MajorHoy Fri Jul 04, 2014 3:09 pm

tony ingram wrote:Ah. News of that seems to have completely passed us by.
That's what we're expecting Arthur to do . . . but it will mess with weather patterns and fronts around where I am.
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Post by tony ingram Fri Jul 04, 2014 3:18 pm

Time to batten down the hatches, by the sound of it. Good luck!
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Post by Lucy Ingram Fri Jul 04, 2014 8:48 pm

'Arthur' is far too polite a name to belong to something that will inflict any major damage.
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Post by MajorHoy Fri Jul 04, 2014 9:00 pm

Lucy McGough wrote:'Arthur' is far too polite a name to belong to something that will inflict any major damage.
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Post by Lucy Ingram Fri Jul 04, 2014 9:10 pm

I stand corrected.
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Post by MajorHoy Fri Jul 04, 2014 9:19 pm

Lucy McGough wrote:I stand corrected.
I actually am sitting down most of the time when I'm using the computer . . .
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Post by Lucy Ingram Fri Jul 04, 2014 9:25 pm

Most of the time I'm standing, but right now I'm sitting.
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Post by MajorHoy Wed Aug 13, 2014 3:27 pm

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Post by tony ingram Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:20 pm

Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
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Post by Lucy Ingram Wed Aug 13, 2014 7:11 pm

I don't have a life Very Happy
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Post by MajorHoy Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:20 pm

Lucy McGough wrote:I don't have a life Very Happy
That's why you should be on line more.  Razz
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Post by MajorHoy Tue Aug 26, 2014 2:54 am

tony ingram wrote:Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
Are we done with that "Middle of Summer" thing yet?

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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Post by tony ingram Tue Aug 26, 2014 7:04 am

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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Post by MajorHoy Wed Aug 27, 2014 1:02 am

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.
Then what is the point of a "bank holiday"? Does it give them a day to focus on cooking the books or something?
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Post by tony ingram Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:49 am

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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.
Then what is the point of a "bank holiday"? Does it give them a day to focus on cooking the books or something?
It's an old tradition. Usually, they were dedicated to saints.
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Post by Lucy Ingram Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:22 am

Were they? I never knew that.
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Post by MajorHoy Wed Aug 27, 2014 2:20 pm

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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?
It's an old tradition. Usually, they were dedicated to saints.
Lucy McGough wrote:Were they? I never knew that.
Though what connection there is between banking and saints is beyond me . . .
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Post by tony ingram Wed Aug 27, 2014 2:35 pm

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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?
It's an old tradition. Usually, they were dedicated to saints.
Lucy McGough wrote:Were they? I never knew that.
Though what connection there is between banking and saints is beyond me . . .
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.
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Post by MajorHoy Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:35 pm

tony ingram wrote:Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
So, after the 26th of October, things should start perking up a wee bit more around here?

(And how many people commonly say "estuary"? I know what one is . . . I use to work in one . . . but still, . . . )
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Post by tony ingram Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:59 am

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tony ingram wrote:Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
So, after the 26th of October, things should start perking up a wee bit more around here?

(And how many people commonly say "estuary"? I know what one is . . . I use to work in one . . . but still, . . . )
It's a word in common usage around here, at least. And have you never heard of Estuary English?
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Post by MajorHoy Wed Oct 15, 2014 2:32 pm

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tony ingram wrote:Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
So, after the 26th of October, things should start perking up a wee bit more around here?

(And how many people commonly say "estuary"? I know what one is . . . I use to work in one . . . but still, . . . )
It's a word in common usage around here, at least. And have you never heard of Estuary English?
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.)

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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Post by tony ingram Wed Oct 15, 2014 2:43 pm

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tony ingram wrote:Middle of Summer, old son. People have lives. I've been walking the dog by the estuary.
So, after the 26th of October, things should start perking up a wee bit more around here?

(And how many people commonly say "estuary"? I know what one is . . . I use to work in one . . . but still, . . . )
It's a word in common usage around here, at least. And have you never heard of Estuary English?
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.)

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.)
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.
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Post by Mbast1 Wed Oct 15, 2014 3:05 pm

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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