yen_powell

You have won, despite Pete's terrible video you have trounced him good and proper.

Once you'd gone they knew it was safe to invest in the place.

Old, but always worth a repeat.

A good heavy phlegmy chest will always be an advantage. The best Welsh is always spoken in TB wards.

Will they need electric plug adapters for anything, not sure of the difference between Poland and Spain? Depends what they bring with them I suppose, phones and stuff are mostly USB charging now.

El Convoyo!

Pete, don't you be glugging the contents of your car battery.

Polish bank staff have the hardest job in the world, just after Polish money lenders.

Like Leonardo Da Vinci https://www.openculture.com/2017/11/why-did-leonardo-da-vinci-write-backwards-a-look-into-the-ultimate-renaissance-mans-mirror-writing.html

She was a great reader. She used to say she was taught to read at home before going to school and won a prize, a copy of Alice Through The Looking Glass, for some reading or writing feat at infants school. One of the things kept from my parents' house was a ratty old home made book case. I was all set to chuck it (it needs small wedges under the front to make it stand upright). Then I found a few old diaries where my mum had written out old stories and memories. When she was little my nan and grandad divorced and she said the best present her dad ever got her was building her a book case for her paperback books.

I think there were 10 ITA books that had to be read and understood in order before you were allowed to switch to normal reading and writing, or T.O. as they called it (I don't know why). My mum taught me at home to read normally and used to 'do her raving narna' at the teachers, but they were very strict, I had to complete the 10 books before I was allowed to switch to T.O. They sent me off to the remedial reading teacher along with other children who couldn't grasp the system (dribblers and balaclava wearers as I recall). It was only when we all moved to junior school that reading and writing went back to the real world. As I said, I caught up by about 9 or 10 years old.

The ice angel gave the owl a ring. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1523708.stm

I saw an old link in my recovered favourites list today. When I was at infants school, which I started when I was 5 years old, they had a weird way of teaching us how to read. I couldn't make head nor tail of it and didn't actually read and write properly until I was about 10 years old. I had to go to remedial reading classes for a year as the school decided I was backwards. The link I found is for a BBC online article about this now discredited teaching method. It starts with an example for you to translate.....and I mean translate. I had to look up what it is actually supposed to say. Have a go. Translation in the next post. No wonder I struggled as a littlun.

Put something sweet close by and see if any come out.

Got any air vents or plastic pipe work. I killed an ant in my VW Golf as I was driving once. It was on the dashboard having a little wander. 5 minutes later I saw another one, then another 5 minutes after that. I think I had a small colony in the air vents, my car is parked on top of concrete block paving which sits on sand. There are always little piles of sand made by ants between the blocks. I think that because I don't use my car very often some had decided to camp out in it.

She'll sort out your plumbing whilst she's there though, it's only fair if you're helping out.