Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

My turn to skite!
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Thank you Ribh for my surprise Chrissy present! It is very delicate and too beautiful to hide in a book. And it has a chook wing attached!

You are welcome.
I am trying my 'prentice hand on you lot!

 

[MaryJanet]

Can't you find bigger, more intimidating people to accompany you at the laundromat?

Not when I'm in Europe, no. Usually the schedule is too tight for making friends.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

So glad she's home safe and sound

I've made some super icky blunders when travelling because I know a smidgen of lots of languages [a misspent youth reading lots of books not meant for children...] but not enough to really use a language well. Perhaps the one that spun me out the most was the little *rabbit droppings* that popped up in my coffee after I'd poured in the milk...apparently I'd bought yogurt & I'm still gobsmacked it was runny enough for me to mistake it for milk!

But the best was in Germany. Late @ nightish. We stopped @ a caff for milk & I refused to get out of the van. Leather jackets. Studs. Nose rings. Knuckle dusters. The man, who doesn't even try @ foreign languages but is 6', had to run the gauntlet. He tried in English & got the stink eye so...he mooed like a cow! Cracked the place up but he got his milk.

All of your international stories had me rolling with laughter but I can soooo relate to this one. Thankfully, German is my strongest language other than English. But knowing the language and not the customs can be dangerous. My friend and I were at dinner in the hotel and he wanted a glass of milk. The young waitress looked at me with a glare as she challenged did I really want milk? When I said yes, she walked off in a huff, went to the kitchen, grabbed a pitcher and walked out the door. A half hour later she returned with warm milk. She had to get it from the cow.

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening everyone

 

[MaryJanet]

Hi @Grammy60

@Ribh, is Tuppence doing ok after her lice problem?

 

[Shadrach]

Jet lag has got her & she didn't arrive till yesterday afternoon & she has saved all her washing till she got home so that's what's been happening. Three weeks worth!

That would be a few pairs of underpants and socks with me.

 

[Shadrach]

French patisseries ~ to die for! And all John wanted was a meat pie or a sausage roll. French, for what it's worth, is my 2nd language so I was sent to ask what the lovely looking roll in the window was. I was pretty sure, whatever it was it wasn't a sausage roll! Thanks to doing spoken French, not just written, I can manage a reasonable"What is that?" And the French are always so delighted if you have a go, no matter how awful your accent is. This lady erupted into beams of delight & very voluble French of which I understood just 1 word: chocolate! I was happy.

I was like that here when I first arrived. I'm far from fluent in Catalan but it's a lot better than point and say 'that'.

 

[Shadrach]

My turn to skite!
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Thank you Ribh for my surprise Chrissy present! It is very delicate and too beautiful to hide in a book. And it has a chook wing attached!

That's rather nice. Well done Ribh.
Just one comment. You could have hidden the stamp with the queens head on it.

 

[Ribh]

That would be a few pairs of underpants and socks with me.

Yes, well...the family joke with this child is she brings 1/2 the country with her when she travels. She does not travel light. This time she @ least had some excuse as she went from a Chilean summer to a Hungarian winter before arriving here.

 

[Ribh]

That's rather nice. Well done Ribh.
Just one comment. You could have hidden the stamp with the queens head on it.

I'm not responsible for the Queen's head.
If you would like a book mark, Shad, just PM me your address. I would have offered before but I wasn't sure it would be your sort of thing.