Our Electricity Company will only use the No 1. xyz though, which even has a different local name… although part of the same commune…
We still have two letter boxes, but one is buried in a Hedge…
Must dig that out as the one in use the door keeps hanging funny…
We have two entrance gates, so know that is where we live… and then a driveway, go around the corner of the house to a door, actually two doors identical, …one through the Lounge and the other into a small extension that we use nearly all the time…
We do have an upstairs but no proper stairs…so when the renovations were carried out by the previous lot…they had the stairs taken out…
The Pine Martins use to try and occupy that…chewing electrical wiring is one of their antics…alarming that, so we filled all of the gaps in…
Only the rain comes in now…not too much.
Arrghh
The Doors face the Garden not the Lane…so the house with no name…
Yes, I agree it’s a pretty horrible - and nonsensical - word to use to describe a homosexual. Then again, I’ve never really understood the appropriation of the word ‘gay’ to mean homosexual either. I mean, it used to just mean happy, jolly, laughing and so on. I don’t think homosexuals have the monopoly on those feelings - they apply equally to heterosexuals.
One of the funniest English word usages I’ve come across is the Australian ‘thong’ - in the UK a thong is a piece of ladies’ underwear, not a beach shoe, which we call a’flip flop’
This nothing to do with numbers but it is about an American war correspondent who moved to Australia with his family and the changes he had to make to fit in. You might find it interesting to read.
It was originally a radio program called Life Matters but one I really enjoy if you follow the links you can listen to that too.
Tipping in Yorkshire means ejecting unwanted items from a wheelbarrow…
The reason they used to charge £9.99 was, had it been a tenner, the assistant could have slipped the note in their pocket, say no more. £9.99 means they have to enter it in the till and give the customer a penny change…
‘Tipping’ is also used in conjunction with such things as ‘fly-tipping’ and ‘tipping with rain’, that may be here ‘down south’ but maybe also in Yorkshire?
My work was in advertising, creating advertisements in press and magazines. It was always emphasised, by advertising agencies who place the advertisements, that the main displayed price, say £9 was to be emphasised with the pence .99 very much smaller, around 50% smaller or smaller than that and often in a font that is not as bold. This is quite simply the psychology of advertising, nothing else. Like products in a supermarket that are good sellers or priced more than others that are similar, being placed on a shelf directly in the ‘eye line’, that’s where most people will see and hopefully buy these items.
Another example of this is to show the McDonald’s logo to a young child who has regularly eaten there.
Without the wording many will usually know the name relating to that logo. Again, it’s psychology or 'brain-washing", used all the time in various ways by companies to sell products / services. Another way is to use well known and inviting ways to get people to buy, the smell of freshly-baked bread is often used in this way.
Yes Baz, in the more posher places ‘Tipping’ it down with rain can be heard…But in the grass roots, Chucking it down, Siling it down, or Pi$$ing it down is more common…
