The weather can’t make up its mind
I wish it some level could find
To go into spring
Or some other thing —
The changes are really unkind.
On Thursday we went to the pool,
As soon as kids got out of school,
I swam, without heaters,
For one hundred metres,*
Although I admit pool was cool!
On Friday we thought we’d repeat
This exercise — it was quite neat;
But wind came along
With rain and quite strong,
And so we admitted defeat.
And, weekend, the weather we got
Was soggy and not at all hot,
Out to lunch, our desire
Was to sit before fire
And our host got one lit on the dot!
Today all the wetness was past,
R back in school pool went at last,
But still far too cool
For me playing the fool —
Until summer’s die is well cast.
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I hope it warms up before we arrive.
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very much how I’m feeling here. Thankful for our gas heater. The weather teased us with some beautiful sunny days and now we have grey and drizzle. sigh.
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I was back to shorts and thong footwear again today – crazy!
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That fire looks so inviting. But soon you will be swimming till April, no fear 😊
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*smugly* Given our climate, the swimming usually goes on merrily up to and including July – as hordes of beachgoing July holiday visitors will attest!
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I have almost forgotten. Many many years ago we lived in Durban for two years. Coming from the Cape I had to get used to the weather but loved it.
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When we moved down from Witwatersrand many, many years ago, I recall that it took a few Februaries before we adapted to the heat and humidity.
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It’s METRES NOT METERS !!!!!!!!!, It’s not an ENGLISH word to be mutilated by Americans et al it’s from the FRENCH. Nappy Bona came up with the idea and the system. It’s Metre and Mitre Litre not Liter and annoyingly frustrating for a user of the metric (how can that be mutilated) system. Please , please try and get it right. 😦
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A metre, any way you measure it, is still a meter.
I am pretty sure no one owns a specific spelling of the word such that that it can be dictated onto others, especially others of a different language. English butchers many words that have their roots elsewhere, and I don’t mean just American English, but also its lesser derivative bastard cousin, Brit English. I find it ironic that, after borrowing from others and bastardizing the original words, Brits are now all in a huff and insisting words should abide by any rules at all.
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It’s interesting to see the level of passion people have for language. Easy to work them up, too.
That said, there’s something about hearing “purest form” that evokes memories of any number of “defenders of (Enter Name Here)” claiming a near-divine calling to preserving said purity.
. . . always reminds me of Hitler . . .
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Theres no such thing as Brit English, there is no such thing as Brit/s and I am English, not Scot Irish or Welsh, there are four different countries four different cultures, just that these four small countries have the misfortune to be connect in the islands of Britain,
We didn’t borrow from other countries, we were conquered by them, and they eventually integrated to become what we were until recently. The last time we were conquered was in 1066 so it’s been quite some time since the Normans came and blended in with the people of England.
Here endeth the lesson for today
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That’s what I like about you Brits . . . thin-skinned.
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can’t help but snort, smirk and smile at all this
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English is becoming/has become so Americanised it is hard to know where to draw the line. I set my language to English UK and hope for the best – heaven forbid that it changes to English SA!
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Well, people gravitate to dynamic and alive languages, so it’s not surprising. Stagnation limits imagination and hinders the progress of mankind, and who wants that?
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Partly true, depending…
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Many Americanisms hark back to old Plymouth forms which the British have moved beyond … so? And when the language defies logic as in ‘gas’ and the pronunciation of ‘aluminium’, who needs them? 🙂
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Do the Americans actually spell ‘aluminium’ without the second ‘i’? Which of course would account for their pronunciation “al-loom-in-um not “al-u-min-e-um”
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I’m not sure most North Americans spell at all. (The Canadians and Mexico and Central America get so touchy about that “Americans” thing)
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http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
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*triumphantly* You see? They fiddled around with the name given, after painstaking consideration, by the namer!
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The point is, there is no pure version and no painstaking consideration. Just fumbling and people deciding what they like best.
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In his case, he considered long and hard before going for the ‘…ium’. Still, it is largely, as you say, a matter of taste. I know from Rotary Exchange Students that the American accent and terminology are easily acquired tastes, but the flavour doesn’t appeal to me.
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And yet, English SA in certain parts was acknowledged in the past – in certain areas such as Natal – as one of the purest forms!
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At last some semblence of respect for the language, you’ve made my day.
XD
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That was a typo which I thought might have MS Word to blame, but a test reveals they are innocent. It was probably done under the influence of the meter with the heater. Your metric rhetoric has had its effect, and you may now safely unknot your knickers!
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Thank you , you are forgiven, Just don’t let it happen again! XD XD 😈
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