Well people after the tiniest bit of rain yesterday, woke up to a right old downpour, windy too. The moan, no thats not it! My Hubby only drinks lime cordial, (WHY is it called that not squash!) We went to Sainsbury specially, they dont sell it at little "local" shops. There was NONE on the shelves, usually Roses, and Sainsbury own underneath. Not mentioned on the shelves either, those 2 were full of ribena, Asked at cashiers, older man, said to me, "you will have to make some then wont you". Sarcastic I thought, told him, yes I have made it, and lemon, but it takes a hell of a lot of limes, I cant make it for 60p a bottle. Went to Customer Service, she showed me her PC screen, both unavailable, and according to her, the letters by the Sainsbury own, mean, they are discontinuing it, WHY!!! Before, that he used to like the chilled cloudy lemon from Morrison, YUP, you guessed it, they discontinued that last year! Have checked online Morrison do their own lime cordial, not avavilable in Tesco either, how weird, what going on.
Well this thread is more fun that fretting about the lack of rain in Cheshire . Still no useful rain. What has fallen will have evaporated in a few hours.
With you on that Weedy, I got all excited, it hammered on the window for about two minutes and the cat came in complaining that he'd got wet.
Now it's back to blue sky and sunshine, with a nice drying wind for good measure. And I have no water to water anything.
People already look at me funny, when i put 6 five litre bottles of water in my trolley. Have to use it even to flush the loo now, all other sources dried up!
Have checked online Morrison do their own lime cordial, not avavilable in Tesco either, how weird, what going on.
Morrisons lime cordial is pretty terrible in my opinion. I get the Robinson's lime with crushed mint now and that's very nice. Comes in a glass bottle too so you know it's posh. Add a squeeze of fresh lime, some white rum and some chocolate mint leaves and it makes lovely mojito too.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
A little etymology note: in looking up buff moths, I encountered the root of the word.
Buff is derived from late Latin bufalus - buffalo - relating to the colour of buffalo skin. The verb seems also connected to working with leather. To buff the diamond.
The other sense of 'buff' as a person who is enthusiastically interested in and very knowledgeable about a particular subject: eg a computer buff; This was originally applied to enthusiastic fire-watchers, because of the buff uniforms formerly worn by New York volunteer firemen.
Thank you, Fire. I enjoyed reading that. Two words which I think have an interesting derivation and which are worth looking up are tawdry and ultracrepidarian.
ooo, thanks. I collect these. Always have. I think we should start an etymology thread. Once you start branching out into words in other languages, things start to get really interested. I'm particularly interested in Celtic, Shetland dialects and Persian. x
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A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
The other sense of 'buff' as a person who is enthusiastically interested in and very knowledgeable about a particular subject: eg a computer buff; This was originally applied to enthusiastic fire-watchers, because of the buff uniforms formerly worn by New York volunteer firemen.