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BSW01

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A friend used to get cross if anyone said brew in connection with tea!

He was from Derby and said tea was mashed not brewed. Brewed was for beer! We just make a cup of tea.

I've often heard the same phase too, Mrs W's mothers family are from Stoke and they often used it.

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The word cuppa is used at BSW01 towers because Mrs W only drinks coffee, which you make, whilst I only drink tea, which you brew. So who ever puts the kettle goes on, will ask the other, do you want a cuppa? But on here I'll use make a brew from now on.

Here on the lighter side of the Pennines you mash tea. Many years ago I went on a taster weekend at University for studying engineering. We had a lecture on critical path analysis and the lecturer used the making of a cup of tea as his example. This was in a big lecture theatre with a couple of hundred potential engineers. After a very entertaining hour he'd got all the times to balance and proudly showed us the critical path. At that point a broad Barnsley accent shouted from the back corner. Tha's forgotten ta warm't pot. I think it was about 5 minutes before any sensible comment was made. The speaker did take it in good part though.

 

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Accents. Big son (the Paramedic in Cornwall) frequently lapses in to a Cornish accent. I think it's rather good. The other day he went to a job where an old person had fallen, so to comfort her he used phrases such as "how you doin' my 'andsome" and "pain will be better dreckly".

 

The lady's son said "thank f... you're Cornish, I'm sick of they f.....g incomers". The son accompanied them on the ambulance, so Ken stayed in character until the lady had been handed over.So far I haven't noticed Hayley developing the accent but I think Ken won't be able to resist much longer.

 

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Just been chatting to Matthew via WhatsApp. He said the most common languages he hears in Cork are English, Polish and Spanish. He is having some problem with the local Cork accent but as I did say he has only been there a week.

If I were a betting man, I'd be wagering that Polish and Spanish is spoken with a hint of Cork. It's the ability of Ireland to absorb and convert those who come to her lands.

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They have brought out a special edition of the Mazda MX 5 called the Icon.                                                                                                                       It's only some sticky tape and some items on the options list but Boy does it look good.

 

I want one!

 

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No idea what happened there, it looked OK before I clicked "post".

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They have brought out a special edition of the Mazda MX 5 called the Icon.                                                                                                                       It's only some sticky tape and some items on the options list but Boy does it look good....

I've seen another special edition of the current MX5, but strangely they've called it the Fiat 124 Spyder... Still unmistakably MX5, though.

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If I were a betting man, I'd be wagering that Polish and Spanish is spoken with a hint of Cork. It's the ability of Ireland to absorb and convert those who come to her lands.

The pub nearest to where Matthew is staying is what he calls an "old man's pub". He is having some difficulty fully grasping older male accents especially those who have had a few drinks. However he said they are very welcoming.

One of Matthew's Polish interviewees said that when they first arrived in Ireland in a small town outside Cork she and her husband took their Easter meal to be blessed by the priest as they would have at home, not realising this wasn't an Irish custom. The priest disappeared for a while and came back. He had phoned the Vatican for advice and proceeded to do what needed to be done.

We are pleased he is doing his research in Cork, people are being helpful, the university especially so. He just dropped in to say hello and that he was from Utrecht University and was doing research in the town. They have been very very supportive. We were a bit concerned about his original choices of Hong Kong and Singapore. There his research would have counted as "political".

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We noticed this in Spoons in town last week. We wondered whether they have only kept the best sellers on the menu or whether it was because the Jolie Brise has been open a year, they have attracted the masses and now dont give a shite.

 

The all-day brunch became also the Sunday Club meal (replacing the excellent roasts served with over-cooked veg). Still features on my local 'Spoons menu under Pub Classics at £5.69 (prices do vary from 'Spoons to 'Spoons!)

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We noticed this in Spoons in town last week. We wondered whether they have only kept the best sellers on the menu or whether it was because the Jolie Brise has been open a year, they have attracted the masses and now dont give a shite.

Last night the menu looked to be exactly the same size as the last one to me. Same type of card aswell :jester:

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Whether we are having a mash up, a brew or whatever its a cuppa down here probably brought down from norf London whence we came.

Our Spoons menu aas not only reduced but clean. Perhaps last week was the first week of the new menu. Usually it contains some pre-cooked food, plenty of drink and something fairly sticky.

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 We just make a cup of tea.

 

As do we. I do like Tetley’s though. They produce a special British Brew over here for Ex-Pats (oops someone doesn’t like that term either)....

Until it appeared (the Tetley’s) I used to buy imported PG Tips at about 10 times the price.

 

Got to have decent tea - we can all agree on that.

 

Best, Pete.

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What ever possessed anyone to call a racehorse Isinglass?

 

Since first seeing it in an Ian Allan combined volume back in the year nineteen hundred and frozen to death, I've thought this such a euphonious name, fit for an Arthurian knight or some such hero. It was wasted on "a substance obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish". Some rock star is sure to use it for one of his offspring sooner or later.

I've been trying to remember who it was who wrote of having to stand up in the classroom and read out his list of "The most beautiful words I know". Unfortunately, he had failed to check on the meaning of the first word on his list - "URINE" - and so found his head in collision with a well-aimed board-rubber slung by an infuriated schoolmaster ...

 

edit: inserted missing "in".

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As do we. I do like Tetley’s though. They produce a special British Brew over here for Ex-Pats (oops someone doesn’t like that term either)....

Until it appeared (the Tetley’s) I used to buy imported PG Tips at about 10 times the price.

 

Got to have decent tea - we can all agree on that.

 

Best, Pete.

After many years of purchasing PG Tips we changed our tea brand. I think it may have been due to the PG Tips teabags not composting fully. However I do like the taste of the new tea we have as it can be strong without being bitter.
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Evening all,

 

Blimey, I've only been gone 48 hours and there are countless pages to catch up on.  Don't think I've picked up on all the strands. 

Yesterday's funeral went well with services in the crem and their chapel, lots of rousing hymns and led by a brilliant young female minister.  Then straight up to a German lesson in Morley college - Dom knows my skills need improving. 

 

Today was the trip to Benenden hospital.  My knee was x-rayed, seen by the specialist and I have an MRI scan next week.

 

Tomorrow is a trip to the dentist for some more penicillin, then help TonyA set up in Dartford.  By the by, if Mike or Mal see a blonde bombshell get off the 8am train from KX, hands off, she's (hopefully) mine.

 

Bill

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