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Raining again

Harb, if it gets too dreich there in sunny Yorkshire you will just have to escape to a sunny country for a brief break.

In the meantime, I believe you're actually having a rather pretty autumn?

Raining again

Fay, I have to teach instead and hope not to be fried on the spot by a direct lightning strike on the computer if I never return you will know the storm at 2 got me

Hope you get some nice soaking rain if I could send you this lot believe me I would

Raining again

Hans - I LIKE thunderstorms, all the fury clearing away promptly, to be fair that's the usual Spanish style, not this imitating Scotland lark with drizzle! Thunderstorm forecast for 2 so hopefully that will be the end of it x

RE: A Broken Heart

Those stories, the killer parents, are hardest of all on the childless, very glad your son has got a boy to raise and give him all the thrills and terrors and frustrations and joys of being a father!

RE: This site is free, stay or leave it's our choice

Fine. Then all the mods need to add in is a way of blocking certain categories. Which they don't have.

Why are you so upset at the thought of a fight-cage, Mic? You'd be with all your best buddies talking about your favourite subject, it would be lovely.

RE: REPORT: Trump Approval Rating Much Higher Than Media Wants You To Believe

Oops my bad I assumed (a**, you, me, etc) it was a response to a certain know-everything female blogger

Mind you the rest of my comment stands. Just make it he / she rather than just she.

RE: REPORT: Trump Approval Rating Much Higher Than Media Wants You To Believe

Don't say that even as a joke, Rizla. There is no irony on lunkhead blogs, it will be taken with empty heads nodding that you recognized she knows more.

RE: Stormy Daniels lost her suit against the President

Lou - I said on Map's blog, where she roared in and lashed out wildly in all directions, that I think she is trying to get deleted. This has gone well beyond rational!

RE: Off Balance

Oh and the get-together - I think you should go? You may not meet your Prince, but you'll get to meet other local single people and maybe strike up friendships

I'd go if I could find something locally, put it that way. A gathering of people on their own who want to meet other people on their own, and can speak English? Bazinga! There are some in Malaga but that's a long drive away, 80 kms. Not exactly ideal for making friends you could spontaneously meet for coffee if you have an hour free.

RE: Off Balance

Falling is the pits, and don't we all just leap up and laugh and say oh silly me I'm fine and meanwhile ouchhhhhh

I think football (you'd say soccer) players have it right. They roll around on the floor pretending to be in agony and by the time they are helped to their feet everyone feels sorry for them. So much better than being embarrassed. Next time it happens (six months, a year, whenever) make a huge fuss!

RE: Skype update

Yes - don't know what they've done on the last update(s) but it is rubbish now.

Also for years I have had it load itself quietly in the background as soon as I switch the PC on, now it is slowing my PC down to the point where I have logged out and switched it off altogether.

Perhaps some day it will sort itself out and some public-minded soul will notify us all on this blog?

RE: Pocahontas a real Indian - 1/1,024th. that is

and no hate and no aggression. Deal?

RE: Pocahontas a real Indian - 1/1,024th. that is

Prove me wrong, post a blog about a female politician you admire. ANY female you admire (for what she has accomplished, not for marrying someone you admire )

And I am not American, not a Liberal or even a liberal, politically generally I am a bit right of centre. I take flak for my right-wing views, visiting your blogs makes me feel I'm not too bad.

You should visit other blogs occasionally, pry your head open, enjoy yourself a bit. I keep thinking there's a person in there somewhere, not just a political troll.

RE: Pocahontas a real Indian - 1/1,024th. that is

This is a DATING SITE. Some of us want to keep encouraging people who like people to JOIN IT. You seem to hate and despise women - certainly women in politics. You post aggressive hate-filled blogs daily, you are hurting our website.

Here. You'll thank me. Who knows, maybe others will thank me.

RE: What are some cultural differences between the UK and US

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RE: A New Range Of Vitamins Discovered

Hey Cat long time no see you must have been following your health regime with great concentration

RE: Caption this....

There's no picture to caption

I'm rubbish at captions but I do like trying

RE: Trump Promised America First – and That's Exactly What We’re Getting

Lets Make America Great Again - Reagan, 1980.

RE: Trump Promised America First – and That's Exactly What We’re Getting

I hear he's suing the Reagan estate for daring to try to jump on his bandwagon back in 1980

Odd couple

You must of course remember that wonderful lunacy of the SA signer who hadn't a clue what he was doing and just gestured wildly -

From 1.44 is best.

Odd couple

I did think sign language could be the international language but guess what, GUESS WHAT, there are differences from country to country!!!

I don't know what they are but I do know there is something called ASL - American Sign Language - and too much to hope that the US is the only one which is out of step.

Odd couple

Rizla, exactly! I am absolutely lost on a Spanish phone call!

I think that's why I like talking on Skype rather than on the phone, as well.

There you go, Mimi, nothing to worry about

Odd couple

Mimi, adventures are important

Odd couple

Mimi, now here I can help! (and M4, take note)

When I need something from the local shops, which are tiny and crammed, I look up the name on Google translate first, memorize it, and trot confidently off to the shops.

So - firstly the Dutch are the greatest linguists on the planet, and he will be close to fluent in a week. I have no idea how they do it. But what your friend has to do is look up five or six phrases that might be relevant, from 'yes exactly like that' to perhaps 'do THAT again and I will hurt you' (well, I'm joking. More or less) but, you know, the basics. In English or in Dutch. She can memorise those and Bob's your uncle.

Obvious ones I have in Spanish are 'please speak slower' and / or 'I don't understand' and / or 'could you point?'

One or two off the top of my head -

dat was geweldig
Niet zo snel
ik heb erg veel honger

I could date a Dutch guy, come to think of it. Afrikaans is sometimes close enough to at least get the gist. And then he would learn (or already speak) Spanish and I'd never need to learn any more than I know already

Odd couple

Emmy, they do say it is the best way to learn a language, after all.

Odd couple

pK I'm not remotely worried about them.

The blog is more about whether the rest of us would be brave enough to take on such a holiday. because up to now I wouldn't have thought of such a thing. Wondered if I was the only one.

Odd couple

Art I didn't realize you were 25 either, I didn't allow for the fact you'd already been holidaying with Mimi for a few days by the time we met.

Odd couple

Molly, I REALLY hope not, the entire street has been dug up, better drainage put in, and as soon as it is all over (three weeks of noisy roadworks, such fun) Z will be coming to fit a non-return valve as well, since my flood (and every other house in the street) wasn't because of the storm itself but because the storm drains backwashed and water came surging out our house drains. Scary stuff. I got off more lightly than most as I was able to barricade my inner doors in time.

Enjoy your stormy walk

Odd couple

And you remind me, it's time for walkies here too, the dog has been tugging at my top in a rather anxious way.

Odd couple

Flash floods in Majorca killed a few British tourists, also had a bad one in Marbella, 15 cms of rain in 15 minutes, flooding shops and causing havoc. I was recently up to my ankles in floodwater here in the house and hope that never happens again. It has been a bit hectic. The rain in Spain has been falling anywhere it pleases.