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Four'n'twenty just reminds me of an old rugby song, for some reason to do with virgins in Inverness, a concept hard to imagine.Four 'n' Twenty? Better - Go straight to Mrs Mac's...........
Four'n'twenty just reminds me of an old rugby song, for some reason to do with virgins in Inverness, a concept hard to imagine.Four 'n' Twenty? Better - Go straight to Mrs Mac's...........
The "Where" thread Its been great fun trying to work out where vineyard photos have been taken.
I had other thoughts than 'fun' in mind e.g torture, testing, frustrating etc etc etc................
We've lived in our house for over 20 years. For the first 12-15 of those I could sit in our back garden in the evening and watch bats feeding. They then stopped coming. Last night I was out looking for StarLink satellites and Lyric meteors and spent five minutes watching two bats feeding again. Made me so happy.
The Canadian expression, "If I had my druthers".
I rarely hear it (think it might be more common in the maritime region). It seems to mean, "if I had my preferred option", or "my preference is", and seems to have derived from "if I had my 'rathers' " or "if I had my 'would rathers' ".
I think it's Canadian (or maybe north-eastern seaboard area of N. America); I certainly don't recall hearing it before I got here.
We've lived in our house for over 20 years. For the first 12-15 of those I could sit in our back garden in the evening and watch bats feeding. They then stopped coming. Last night I was out looking for StarLink satellites and Lyric meteors and spent five minutes watching two bats feeding again. Made me so happy.
You can't beat a barbecued blackbird on a warm summer's evening.
Surely there aren't health risks from bats...?!We have bats inside the house every year. But this not something that delights me. The whole family up at 3 am screaming with terror as we try to get it or sometimes them out. It's the risk of rabies that concerns me most.
I've heard it a few times this side of the pond, and assumed it was British. But on checking, I see it originated the southern US, and features in "To Kill a Mockingbird"The Canadian expression, "If I had my druthers".
I rarely hear it (think it might be more common in the maritime region). It seems to mean, "if I had my preferred option", or "my preference is", and seems to have derived from "if I had my 'rathers' " or "if I had my 'would rathers' ".
I think it's Canadian (or maybe north-eastern seaboard area of N. America); I certainly don't recall hearing it before I got here.
My son spent ages 3-8 in the USA - where such things really don’t exist. When we moved back to London his favourite treat was to stand on the top deck of the bus, right at the front. One time he saw people getting on the bus, and when they didn’t come upstairs he said to me, in utter astonishment, “don’t they KNOW?”.Travelling on the top deck of a London bus just people watching as the bus trundles along. I still feel like a kid when I do it.
My son spent ages 3-8 in the USA - where such things really don’t exist. When we moved back to London his favourite treat was to stand on the top deck of the bus, right at the front. One time he saw people getting on the bus, and when they didn’t come upstairs he said to me, in utter astonishment, “don’t they KNOW?”.