Since ours are country birds I doub't they'd get the joke @Tin pot as they woudn't understand....... Apparently town birds pitch their song higher to be heard above all the other noise - https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/more-to-birdsong-than-meets-the-ears.html and I remember a piece on Countryfile a while back about northern and southern differences too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I was training as a quantity surveyor when the metric system was introduced into the UK. The building industry isn't exactly renowned for its positive attitude to change and we used to get drawings in with building dimensions in metres but timber size still in imperial measurements because timber was still cut to imperial sizes for years after the change. Telling a builder he needed 50 metres of 4" x 2" timber caused plenty of head scratching. A few mistakes were also made with mis-placed decimal points when calculating volume too.
I chop and change between the two systems all the time. For technical drawings and most other measurements and weights I use metric. I use centigrade but can convert to fahrenheit if I remember the formula. I’m happy to use feet and inches and if someone uses them I’ll use them back - that’s only polite! I am now converted to the use of kilometres, but still understand miles. But like @Hostafan1,my own height and weight is always imperial and I have no idea what they are in metric.
And I didn’t detect any Islamophobia either KT3. I’m really sorry to hear about your brother, that must be tough.
Thanks Nollie. My brother was never expected to live, never mind get back to work but he did eventually go back to work. He wasn't able to do his previous job, but the company created a job he could do because he was so highly regarded. In fact there was a letter in his pay packet, received a couple of days after his accident, congratulating him on his promotion. I started working at the same company, but in a different department, shortly before he returned to work. As we don't particularly look alike very few people knew of our relationship. Not long after he started back I heard somebody refer to him as a "F****** retard" because he was having problems understanding complex instructions. Shall we just say this person only said it once!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Too early for double entendres.
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