Jack Frost was nippin' at my nose this morning (it's Fri night there, noon Sat here)on the long walk to the front gate to get the paper!

Hope that made you all feel a bit cooler!

http://www.hook-norton.org.uk/

Beverley, I will be staying in Hook Norton village (check out the music at the crossroads link, it is organized by my mate Pete, the Beer festival link is good as well, i have been known to partake). Old Hooky is pretty good stuff! I will also spend time in Wales (Swansea, Port Talbot, Cardiff). A holiday in Wales with castles, Dragons and words I can't dream to pronounce! Still, I have no idea what a Mac and Wellies are!

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ceashel:

It is, except when you get a "blue norther" in July; it goes from sunny and 101 to dark and in the 40s and starts hailing within 10 minutes. Ask Pam. She thought I was telling a "Texas tall tale" until it happened when we were together.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Does that always happen, or only when Airforce One makes trips to Crawford?

Larry, that would obviously be a "Red Norther"! Nothing blue about Texas, or Florida for that matter right now, but "the times, they are a changin'".

Blue Norther, eh? It'd be the only blue thang around here. We could use one right about now. Haven't experienced that yet.

My Dearest PSB, A Mac is a Raincoat and Wellies are knee length rubber (or plastic)boots like you can get from KMart to wear outside when it's wet!!!

THanks Love, I was not alone in my ignorance of such as I speak an ancient colonial form of English called American. I asked about, and know one but my friend from the land of Oz has been able to help! I must admit, when in England i have some difficulty with the variety of dialects. Pete is Welsh and so he speaks a rapid fire "singing" type language. The general English spoken in the Pub is pretty straight forward but of course my American colloquialisms break all the rules and I don't understand much of the English dictionary. Then there is the late Pub speak, (Pete is a Pub singer so I am there late for reasons other than getting pissed, but I have noted when the English get pissed I can hardly understand them at all and am often smiling, nodding and if nothing else works, I raise the pint and say cheers mate (this requires an obligatory response and works to change the subject. I have a wonderful time over there, that is why I often return there I suppose. (Lousie, those i know from Oz i like as well. I just met a fellow from Chermside in Queensland who works with Tuberculosis. Fine fellow, interesting converstaion over a coupla pints down in Atlanta)

It is wonderfully cool in the Susquehana valley this morning!

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mikey:

Larry, that would obviously be a "Red Norther"! Nothing blue about Texas, or Florida for that matter right now, but "the times, they are a changin'".<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh yes there is something "blue" about Texas ... the mood of the enlightened ones who live there and have to deal with the thought of Bush returning for good!

BTW, I did indeed think Ceas was telling a tall tale about blue Northers ... learned my lesson.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by louise:A Mac is a Raincoat and Wellies are knee length rubber (or plastic)boots...QUOTE]

I thought the former was a type of apple and the latter was the plural of a part of the male anatomy....oh, wait! That's willies! Is that what they mean when somebody says, "I've got the willies!"?

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Glad I could help PSB. I had plenty of trouble with language when I moved from Portland Ore. to Brisbane in '64 when I was 9. Even tho my Mom was an Aussie and she had an accent, she had more of a middle class way of speaking even though she was from a fairdinkum working class family.So when we stayed with my Nana and Papa in a fairdinkum working class neighborhood, where I went to school, even tho everyone spoke English I felt lost at times. This was just on the cusp of the infiltration of American TV and pop music here. (The Beatles arrived 3 months after us and then began the flood of American pop culture) There had been some influence when my Dad arrived with MacArtur in the early 40's but the 60's really opened the door.

Each member of my birth family have a different accent. My Dad is still pure Oregonian, my Mom is still middle class OZ, my Sis (who was 17 when we moved here) is Ore. with a slight Oz accent, my Bro (who was 13) has a Ore Oz mix but easy to pick as Part U.S. And I am very rarly picked as a Yank except when I say some words e.g. Tomato.
It makes for interesting times when people start raving on about or insulting the U.S. or Americans when they've never been there.
Of course I agree with them on some beefs. (e.g.when they cuss the U.S. govt, not the WHOLE population, over the war) Someone I know from Canada who was here recently (24 years old) was constantly berated by people of her age group in pubs who mistook her for being a Yank. I told her to just remind them that our P.M. went along with Shrub and was STILL voted back in last year by HALF of the population! (as in the U.S)
I've thought of starting an OZSPEAK thread on the boards but haven't got to it yet. There are some words that are completely innocent in the U.S. but offensive in some contexts here. And other words from the time before mass communication that are slowly being lost.

It's 8:50 A.M. Mon morning here and we are receiving much needed rain, as we didn't get any in our traditional summer wet season.
And I have the wood fire burning low. But it's pretty darn chilly (for a sub-tropical region)outside.The coldest it will get in July or August, where I live near the coast, is about 1 Degree Celsius. Not too bad (except I have to go to work at 6 AM and work partly under cover and partly outside)But the days warm up by lunch time and it is a beautiful time of the year. The worst time is when we get the Westerlies in August for a last cold blast before spring.

Hope that cools you down! Good Morning/Evening Blunderites!

OK,now I know what they're talking about in the song "Someday Soon" when they sing "So blow you old blue norther, blow my love to me", although I'd much rather have love blown at me, as the song says, than hail, like Ceashel was talking about.....

Good morning, Ceas! Haven't shared the boards in awhile ...

Good morning to everyone else who stops by as well.

DARN ... gotta get off. Someone needs to make a call ... later all!

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Judy:
"So blow you old blue norther, blow my love to me",<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>That would be a Blundervibe blue norther, which we do love to get!

PSB, I'm sorry I thought you just wanted the weather clarifiying! I didn't realize that you didn't know what Wellies and a Mac was.

Wales is a really nice place to visit if your over hear. I've never been to south Wales but the year before last we spent a week traveling north Wales, it's very beautiful.

I know what you mean about the language though, you don't realize just how different American English is to English, until you travel over. When I whent to the Church I wanted to know if Sherry wanted me to Hover the stage, she looked at me as though I'd spoke Alien. It took five minuets of explaining before she realized I wanted to know where the Vacume cleaner was. To Hover in English is To Vacume in American, the funny thing was though when she got it out the cupboard it was a Hover Vacume cleaner. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

Hope you enjoy your holiday.

Hey Beverley, I know, its funny ow people had never herd of a Mac and Wellies. of course I never gave them the context! Have you ever watched a conversation between a Spaniard and an Italian. Now that is amazing! THey can understand each othe even though they can not speak each others language, very bizarre.

after context most people say a Macinaw and Wellington boots. I always ask what are Wellington boots and they don't have a ready answer. I think language is funny!

Did you look at the link I posted? I have been told we will have a great craic! (not sure what a craic is?) I do know about the weather there though I was at the music festival in Hooky in 2003 on July 4 and it was cold and wet and all the natives were running around in t shirts and shorts.

Later