tiahatti
Well-Known Member
Bathing horses
Filling Haynes
But mostly, being called Hun
Filling Haynes
But mostly, being called Hun
Those aren’t really fair comparisons... they are written in different times - I am not a huge Harry Potter fan but those books did get a generation of kids reading when kids had stopped reading almost all together.
Mayo stops the bread going soggy (from the tomatoes and cucumbers) more effectively than butter - or it might be that butter melts into the bread in warm shops and they go soggy - something like that, anyway.This! Why do prepacked sandwiches always contain more mayo than anything else?!?!?! It is vile stuff!!!!
And I love a good musical, whereas pantomimes leave me cold.
Mayo stops the bread going soggy (from the tomatoes and cucumbers) more effectively than butter - or it might be that butter melts into the bread in warm shops and they go soggy - something like that, anyway.
I often wonder who does find Mrs. Brown's Boys funny? I certainly don't, nor does anybody I know (obviously not a statistically significant sample....). It's not shown on Irish TV channels.
Mayo stops the bread going soggy (from the tomatoes and cucumbers) more effectively than butter - or it might be that butter melts into the bread in warm shops and they go soggy - something like that, anyway.
I (hopefully) intend on doing a BE80 this year and I think I might look very out of place as I only ever ride and compete in a plain cavesson bridle, GP saddle and loose ring snaffle, don't even have boots!
A Harry Potter side note; anyone else tried reading them in foreign languages?
Easy to follow, limited vocab, mix of formal and informal, tenses, parts of speech etc. They're fantastic.
Also, the French translator is a genius. Choixpeau. I mean, just wow!
I've had the Russian version on my wishlist for AGES. The simple language really comes into its own there!
My dad speaks Russian because he used to do quite a bit of work over there, and someone once gave him a copy as a present. I don't think he's ever read it....
A microcosm for the cruel inequity of the world!
(I don't speak Russian, I can't get my tongue around English that well. I can read a little though.)
Can send it to you if you like - a world of Russian Harry potter joy awaits you!
Yeah, he's one of those irritating easy language learners - he also speaks Welsh, French, German and Italian. It's really very unfair to the rest of us.
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Horse hate: breeches. Everyone else seems to fit in them. Fastening the main brands is like trying to do a zip up between New York and Land's End, whilst the Kraken tries to fight its way to the surface of the Atlantic. Soul destroying.
Personal pet dislike... people who manage to ride their horses in a saddle that magically 'fits all horses' which has never ever been checked/fitted by a saddler.
But but but, banana and nutella sandwiches are the bestBananas....
*shudder*
Foodstuff of the devil!
But but but, banana and nutella sandwiches are the best