Aargh, just opened the porch door and it looks like a plague of worms has fallen from the sky! It's actually catkins off the adjacent birch tree blown off in overnight heavy rain.
We were driving home today and my wife asked the kids what they fancied for dinner. Oldest boy replied "piss off" I was given an eloquent look that implied that language like that was my fault and matters would be discussed later. We asked him what he meant and he said "I want pees off". We asked if he wanted a piece of something and he said no, he wanted a pees off. We asked what a pees off was and he explained it was yellow and white and round. After about five minutes of questioning we finally worked out that he'd seen a cartoon where someone had baked a cake as a 'peace off ring' and he wanted the cake. We explained what a peace offering was and why he wasn't getting cake for dinner.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
In the same way that you can hear an underlying west country note to the American accent, there's a definite link between south east English accents and Australian. By no means the same, but if you listen to someone who used to have a moderately strong sarf london accent when they've lived somewhere else for a while, they tend to sound vaguely antipodean
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Last night when I closed the greenhouse doors there were snails crawling all over the outside of the greenhouse. I evicted some from the inside, one was eating my newly pricked out Nicototiana. Time for slug pubs in the greenhouse as well I think.
Shops that have a colouring-in screen for youngsters. You just tap the part you wish coloured in with the stylus of that colour!! Where are the crayons and colouring in pencils? How can you teach a child care in their work with just a touch of a stylus. You never need go over the lines again or go around the lines in a darker shade and then lightly shade in carefully - I hope normal colouring in books are still used at home
That's odd as a Sussex accent was more 'ooh-arr' than what you hear nowadays. My granddad sounded positively rural and nothing like Australian - and accents you hear today in the UK presumably are not quite the same as the accents from 200 years ago.
I would guess with all the Aussies around Earl's Court that what you're hearing as a London accent was back -influenced by Australians! Smiley face here.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's actually catkins off the adjacent birch tree blown off in overnight heavy rain.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Shops that have a colouring-in screen for youngsters. You just tap the part you wish coloured in with the stylus of that colour!! Where are the crayons and colouring in pencils? How can you teach a child care in their work with just a touch of a stylus.
You never need go over the lines again or go around the lines in a darker shade and then lightly shade in carefully - I hope normal colouring in books are still used at home