MJ's little flock

[MaryJanet]

I wonder if I will hear peeps when I get home later. It's too soon really, but I would be thrilled.

Awww no peeps yet.

Mary looks like she's paying attention to something and not merely zoned out. So I wonder if she can feel movements in one of her eggs.

 

[Perris]

patience, grasshopper

 

[MaryJanet]

patience, grasshopper

I saw two ants on the maternity coop and panicked. They're dead now. I squashed them.

Poor ants.

 

[BDutch]

About tuna, the mercury content made national news yesterday because a french NGO published worrying test results on Tuna cans from many different European countries, and a study about tuna and mercury.

This is not the first scandal of poisoned food Ive been reading today.

There was an investigation on bird feed sold in shops in the Netherlands . 8 out of 9 batches contained poisons. The poisoned batches were bought/insecticides in different kind if shops like supermarkets, garden centres and a bird protection organisation. The only one free of poison was an organic brand.

The amounts of poisons the investigators found varied, but the amounts were so high they are a threat for the wild birds.

https://nos.nl/l/2543201
I cant copy the txt. Not sure if auto-translate will work.

 

[BDutch]

But tinnies are the same everywhere?

If you learned a few languages …
Translated to Dutch and German.
1 Made of a kind of tin/metal or makes a metallic sound.
2 Cheap

 

[RoyalChick]

If you learned a few languages …
Translated to Dutch and German.
1 Made of a kind of tin/metal or makes a metallic sound.
2 Cheap
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Yes, your number 1 and number 2 are commonly used in the kind of trans-Atlantic English I am familiar with. Actually I am not 100% sure that number 2 works in US English.
But a Tinny in Australia also refers to a can of beer, and a small open boat. The boat one I learned of here from our Australian friends. The beer one I was already familiar with.

 

[MaryJanet]

It's a slow morning in the maternity coop, so here's a couple of entries for your multilingual dictionary @BDutch

Tinny - quite a fancy example, look at that cushioned seat!

The other type of tinny.

 

[MaryJanet]

"Let's go out in the tinny and have a few tinnies," is a phrase not unheard of.

 

[LozzyR]

If you learned a few languages …
Translated to Dutch and German.
1 Made of a kind of tin/metal or makes a metallic sound.
2 Cheap
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Love it! We do love a good word-off in this friend group.

 

[RoyalChick]

It's a slow morning in the maternity coop, so here's a couple of entries for your multilingual dictionary @BDutch

Tinny - quite a fancy example, look at that cushioned seat!

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The other type of tinny.

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That is definitely not a tinny tinny with that fancy seat!