Devondancer update

[anniemcu]

Glad the new haircut has brightened your spirits!

[mutepointe]

A fine thing happened today! I was AT LAST able to have my hair cut, and no longer look quite so much like a cross between an Old English Sheepdog and a moth-eaten floor mop! It is now TIDY and in a BOB again, instead of short bits here, long bits there, bald bits up there, etc. It is rather shorter than I normally have it, to match up with the shortest bits which hadn't grown enough, but at least I will look a bit more like a normal person when I meet David's family, so they won't think I'm whatever mutepoint suggested - some sort of cannibal, was it, mute?

Another step towards normal life! One small step for man, etc etc ...

Lesley

It was Ro who was supposed to get the haircut and shine his shoes. It was you who was supposed to be a step above an evil cannibal dictator. If they ask if you've had anyone for dinner recently, it's a trick, say no.

[cowtime]

Great. Nothing like a haircut to make things right. Unless it's like my last one- I too am a fan of the BOB. Unfortunately, my last haircut I tried a new shop- bad move- this is the second worst haircut I've ever had in my life. She undoubtedly had no idea...

(It sure is nice to see you posting about plain old everyday stuff )

[Jerry Freeman]

It sure is nice to see you posting about plain old everyday stuff

Amen.

Tears. You got me there.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[devondancer]

Thank you! It is good to be tidy, but very chilly round my neck!! At least I don't feel quite so much like a freak when we venture out: what with walking diagonally, stupid stick, scars round head and neck (at least they can't see the one down my front) and hair that looked as though the dog had chewed it, I wasn't really doing myself justice. Now, of course, people will be so busy admiring my hair that they won't notice that I walk diagonally, have a stupid stick and scars round neck and head!

And I can have all my friends for dinner - that right, mute?

[Denny]

get a scarf....fix the cold and block the view

I wonder what the Brit word for scarf is....

[devondancer]

Scarf.





Why didn't I think of that?

Please don't answer that.

[Doc Jones]

Americans (at least Idahoans) also use the word "scarf" to mean Eating in a great hurry (ie without much chewing) ie...scarf your food. It would be the same as bolting your food.

Neither scarves nor bolts have any other relation to food so far as I know.

Doc

[devondancer]

As far as I know, here in England a scarf is only the woolly thing you wrap round your neck. Also known as a muffler, which might confuse some!

"Scarfing" your food is not used here; we would say "gobble" or "bolt".

Language is fun, isn't it?

[Denny]

I am scarfing without a scarf right now.

I thought about bringing muffler into it.....

[anniemcu]

Thank you! It is good to be tidy, but very chilly round my neck!! At least I don't feel quite so much like a freak when we venture out: what with walking diagonally, stupid stick, scars round head and neck (at least they can't see the one down my front) and hair that looked as though the dog had chewed it, I wasn't really doing myself justice. Now, of course, people will be so busy admiring my hair that they won't notice that I walk diagonally, have a stupid stick and scars round neck and head!

And I can have all my friends for dinner - that right, mute?

We'll throw back the bolt, scarf the necks, and gobble the goodies, then! I'm in! Even if it is just a cyberfeast.

[peeplj]

As far as I know, here in England a scarf is only the woolly thing you wrap round your neck. Also known as a muffler, which might confuse some!

"Scarfing" your food is not used here; we would say "gobble" or "bolt".

Language is fun, isn't it?

Where I live, you won't hear much talking of scarfing your food, but you just might wolf it down, especially if it's mighty larapin good.

Language is indeed odd. Once when I traveled to Wisconsin, two young waitresses took great delight in my accent and had me read the entire menu to them, which caused me mild puzzlement and them bursts of delighted giggles.

Go figure.

--James

[devondancer]

I have just thought that we do say "scoff" your food here, meaning to gobble or bolt it. We might also say "wolf it down".

People laugh at my accent too, James: I have a fairly standard "Oxford English" accent and am always being told I sound Scottish! That makes no sense at all to me!

As I said, language is fun.

Tomorrow we travel to Somerset to meet David's parents. I still hope they are happy with who his heart went to. It is a very odd situation, really, and impossible to predict, or to prepare for. At least I don't look like a cannibal now. (Yes, I am still nervous!)

[djm]

Wouldn't it be interesting if Lesley started getting an overwhelming urge to play the theme song for Thomas the Tank and it turns out that David had a penchant for toy trains?

djm

[anniemcu]

Good luck tomorrow, Lesley, though I'm certain they can't help but like you.

I'm sure we'll all be thinking of you and waiting for the report.