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[M.T.]

More rank stupidity. https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/02/06/du...

Enjoy!

[Jim]

just one of those weeks :-)

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "just one of those weeks :-)"

It seems so, although at the moment I'd quite like to hit a week that wasn't! Mwaaharrrrgh! Never mind.

[M.T.]

Well ... a fair bit going on this week https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/02/14/th...

[M.T.]

This week’s blog is basically an explanation of why there wasn’t a blog last week. Enjoy: https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/02/27/ex...

[Jim]

Good one :-)

[M.T.]

And there’s more. Total lunacy this one :-)

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/03/06/ugh/

[Jim]

interesting :-)

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "interesting :-)"

Sometimes, you just have to share the weird! :-)

[Jim]

It's what makes the world interesting :-)

[M.T.]

I have done a rather boring blog this week but it is there nonetheless. https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/03/13/tl...

[Jim]

Not all that boring. I think with your comments about meh, you've actually got closer to the answer than a lot of scientists and the politicians they are leading by the nose

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "Not all that boring. I think with your comments about meh, you've actually got closer to the answer than a lot of scientists and the politicians they are leading by the nose"

I think I've had the meh for so long that I've become an expert.

[Jim]

well hopefully you've shifted it a bit :-)

[M.T.]

Yeh definitely. Especially after church this morning.

[Alicia]

I so miss singing.

[M.T.]

Yeh, I'm extremely lucky to be able to do that. It's a big old church and socially distanced we all fit nicely. The 'choir' usually it's just the two of us. Sit at the back by the door away from everyone else. :-)

This week there were three of us and I was invited to join a singing group!

[Alicia]

Wish I could be there to see your church and hear you sing.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Glad you have been able to go and sing at church again, it is remarkable what things we would normally do can improve our mind (sorry, that didn't come out right, brain is a bit mushy now!!)

[M.T.]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Glad you have been able to go and sing at church again, it is remarkable what things we would normally do can improve our mind (sorry, that didn't come out right, brain is a bit mushy now!!)"

Ah, but I know exactly what you mean! :-)

Alicia wrote: "Wish I could be there to see your church and hear you sing."

Mwahahahrgh! If you'd heard me sing you might not wish for that. ;-)

[Alicia]

I don't think people who get pleasure from singing can be all that bad - most people I know who can't sing, know it.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Not sure whether you knowing what I meant is a good thing MT!!

[M.T.]

Alicia wrote: "I don't think people who get pleasure from singing can be all that bad - most people I know who can't sing, know it."

I think it's developed. As a kid I was supposed to be able to sing well, as a teenager I was constantly mocked for singing out of tune and having a shit voice and in the school choir I was an alto which is where they put the growlers and the people who couldn't really sing in tune. As an adult, I've learned that my singing just about passes muster if you're not musical, but otherwise what sounds in tune in my head comes out a semitone flat, which is unfortunate.

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Not sure whether you knowing what I meant is a good thing MT!!"

Mushy brains fistbump!

[M.T.]

More word barf! Enjoy.

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/04/10/ouch/

[Jim]

nice one

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "nice one"👍 ta me duck.

[M.T.]

Another deluge of mindless wittering hits t'interweb!

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/04/17/mess/

[Jim]

Another interesting one. I suspect there are a lot of people out there who share some of the problems

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "Another interesting one. I suspect there are a lot of people out there who share some of the problems"

Yeh. I'm feeling a lot better having abandoned all efforts for a couple of days and just done stuff like gardening, a day out with the McOthers and listening to music. But the hormones have altered too which has helped. :-)

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Incredible weather here - well it is Wales! So dry we’ve had to water plants. Unheard of this time of year. OH is painting, not with talent like Rosemary, but a roller and many tins of paint on the dividing wall. It’s a marathon job as it’s our wall and he always does both sides. I won two prizes in a dog club raffle yesterday wine and and book ends. They must know me well.

[M.T.]

Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "Incredible weather here - well it is Wales! So dry we’ve had to water plants. Unheard of this time of year. OH is painting, not with talent like Rosemary, but a roller and many tins of paint on the..."

Blimey, that sounds a bit radical Lynne. To be honest, sun, in Wales sounds pretty rad, full stop. My in laws used to live between Tenby and Camarthan and apart from the last bit of the journey down, when we were always driving into a low, blinding sun, it used to pretty much rain the entire time every time we visited! It was like we brought it with us. It was a beautiful area though and on the few sunny days we were there it was fabulous.

[M.T.]

Once again, I have blogged. Enjoy.

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/04/24/snot

[Jim]

Even this far north the motorways are starting to get busy.

[M.T.]

I can believe it. I did think it might get busy in summer as lots of folks are going on holiday in the UK. Cornwall is booked for two years now apparently. I do love Cornwall but the roads ... ugh ... the only decent way to get there is by boat really.

[Jim]

M.T. wrote: "I can believe it. I did think it might get busy in summer as lots of folks are going on holiday in the UK. Cornwall is booked for two years now apparently. I do love Cornwall but the roads ... ugh ..."

It's somewhere I've always meant to go but getting there put me off. There are few places worse to get to from here

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

M.T. wrote: "I can believe it. I did think it might get busy in summer as lots of folks are going on holiday in the UK. Cornwall is booked for two years now apparently. I do love Cornwall but the roads ... ugh ..."

Late last summer when I was finally up and running down at the harbour I was chatting to an English family who told me that of course they hadn't been able to do their usual charming French gite (sp?) holiday. Then they thought they'd try Cornwall or Devon, but they were full. So they'd HAD to come to Scotland. And actually it was quite nice!!
I've always fancied visiting Cornwall. There's a direct train service from Edinburgh though (actually it starts from Aberdeen - just over 13 hours!) which is probably how we'd do it. Stopping in a nice hotel overnight in Bristol to break the journey :D But clearly not for the next two years.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I'd also love to do Cornwall and Devon, but the length of the journey puts me off

[M.T.]

I had a friend whose father was a rural dean in the Salisbury diocess so I went to visit him. Cornwall is a bit like south west Wales. Very beautiful, lots of tiny lanes with no overtaking places, chock full of caravans being towed at no more than 25mph. It seems there's an unofficial speed limit of 30mph enforced rigorously, not only by the caravans but by tractors. Getting there from Sussex, where I lived at the time, it definitely felt like it would be quicker to pootle along the coast in a boat to Mevagissy or somewhere than to try and go by car.

I think I'd train it if I went now. Get the local chug-a-lug to Peterborough and pick up an inter city there. I don't think you could actually live there without a motorbike or some kind of flying contrivance that would get you from a to b without having to interact with the caravans.

[M.T.]

Eee here we are then, Saturday lunch time's blog post at 6.30pm on Sunday. Hmmm! :-) https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/05/01/fa...

[Alicia]

'Twas a good one, MT.

[M.T.]

Alicia wrote: "'Twas a good one, MT."

Eeee pet, glad you enjoyed it. :-)

[Alicia]

Funny - I just used 'pet' for the British ambassador's wife talking to her daughter - and wondered if it was British enough. And then you go and confirm it.

Thanks. It is not American, at least not current, so I must be channeling you.

“And on that note, darling, I must thank our hosts, and say our farewells.” Mrs. Wilkins took the sting out of her request. “I’m afraid Sophie has been yawning, and there is much yet to do before the arrival of Saint Nick…”
“Moth-er! May I please stay a little longer?”
“I’m afraid not, pet. Say goodbye and thank you…”

(darling is her husband, pontificating at a party)

[M.T.]

Alicia wrote: "Funny - I just used 'pet' for the British ambassador's wife talking to her daughter - and wondered if it was British enough. And then you go and confirm it.

Thanks. It is not American, at least no..."

It's a very north eastern thing, Newcastle and Northumbria, generally. :-)

[Jim]

And in the North East you can use it to both males and females, certainly in some social classes :-)

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Jim wrote: "And in the North East you can use it to both males and females, certainly in some social classes :-)"

But usually only if it's a female speaking?

I remember when I first moved to Edinburgh being slightly surprised at being called 'hen'. Growing up as an Aberdonian I was more used to being cried a quine.

[Alicia]

But would a parent say that to their young child?

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Oh yes, definitely

[M.T.]

Here's this weeks drivel! :-) https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/05/08/wi...

[Alicia]

Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "Oh yes, definitely"

Thanks, Rosemary. It came from somewhere when I wrote it - some place where I've read similar - but I hate getting things wrong I could have checked.

[M.T.]

Finally! Sorry. That took forever didn’t it?

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2021/05/23/li...