You're missing a dot, there needs to be three dots or else ...
Figured I was dotty enough.... there's the extra dot for last time!
Thanksgiving here on Thursday... 81 f......November? And the east coast covered deep in snow, I wonder if my pal Cath, ex Stinstin, is snowed in?
"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
C.S.Lewis
Having read today that an INKERMAN MELEE was once demonstrated in Saltcoats my curiosity got the better of me.
It originates from the 5th of November 1854 when the Battle of Inkerman at the Crimean War degenerated into a formless melee after both the British and Russians lost effective control of their armies. So there .
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
I just learned these names for collections of birds:
A murder of crows.
A mischief of magpies.
A quilt of eiders.
An aerie of eagles.
A wisdom of owls.
A quarrel of sparrows.
A kettle of swallows.
An invisibleness of ptarmigans.
A descent of woodpeckers.
A committee of terns.
A pitying of turtledoves.
A banditry of titmice.
A scold of jays.
And many more.
Fantastic Retsum, I still use First Aid in English to fill in things like this as collectives are no longer taught. This will be filed away to be pulled out the hat when needed
I was intrigued today by the above headline in an old newspaper and even more puzzled to see that it referred to a conviction at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court in respect of someone stealing beer from behind a pub.
Googling the expression, I see the definition is - "To steal some liquor from a cask while being carried by rail or otherwise, or when in store."
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
I have often heard people describe others by the the rude name "MONGOL" i could never work out the connection until today while having a quick look at a childrens Encyclopedia i discovered that- Mongol leader Genghis Khan (1162-1227 could not read or write.
I've been close to football all my days and until recently had never heard the word FOOTBALLISTICALLY.
Apparently it was first introduced to the English language by Arsene Wenger, the French manager of Arsenal; and I heard it most recently from the Argentinian Ossie Ardilles, formerly of Tottenham Hotspur.
Penny Tray wrote:I've been close to football all my days and until recently had never heard the word FOOTBALLISTICALLY.
Apparently it was first introduced to the English language by Arsene Wenger, the French manager of Arsenal; and I heard it most recently from the Argentinian Ossie Ardilles, formerly of Tottenham Hotspur.