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Erik, could I please have permission to share your excellent treatise with some friends, political and otherwise?

It is not something that my generation in Wales encouraged. We would get merry certainly, but being drunk was actually frowned upon. I believe that nowadays younger people may feel and act differently.

Another example of Amglish there Shelley. When we have to use the stupid things we sit on a pouffe. (Poo-fay)

Shelley wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:20 pm

Bobinwales, you're repeating yourself, again.

How did that happen?
How did that happen?
I can't see how to delete.
I can't see how to delete.
Sorry.
Sorry.

Shelley wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:53 pm

I dunno, Bob, some bigoted snipers have accused them of having no sense of humor at all!

I dunno either, even though my daughter is married to a lady.

Shelley wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:29 pm

. . . or, the severing of my car's forward trajectory when -- "Hey! That guy just cut me off!"

I would have said. "That bloke just cut me up!"
Both sides of the Pond again.

Shelley wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:29 pm

. . . or, the severing of my car's forward trajectory when -- "Hey! That guy just cut me off!"

I would have said. "That bloke just cut me up!"
Both sides of the Pond again.

It has always puzzled me why the common acronym LGBT separates "Lesbian" and "Gay", surely lesbians are gay.

I always thought that Velcro is a rip-off!

Welcome. You have started with a good problem.
I am afraid that I have never heard of the celebration.

Shelley, it is so nice to hear from you! I hope you are well.

I did indeed take the picture, in a park just around the corner from where we live. I will be happy to photograph it again when it is in full leaf. Watch this space, another six months and your question will answered. Wikipedia says, "They are often known in English as planes or plane trees. Some No...

We would call them kilner jars. But what the mechanism is called is anyone's guess.
(A man called Kilner invented them in Yorkshire)

I have never heard of a "commencement". Is this something that only happens in the USA?

gdwdwrkr wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 23, 2018 4:17 am

Beautiful tree-structure! (What species?)
Nadolig Llawen!

The tree is one of several species that grow wherever I happen to be. They are part of a group known as, "Buggered-if-I-know"!