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Gardener Started conversation Jul 3, 2002
Hi,SOL!
That is newly-joined Russian researcher here. Just wanted to cast in my lot with you.A was astounded at our command of English!,so unintrusive and compelling yor introduction appeared to be that I would pick it up as a best one on h2g2 though a bit downcasted with grief and pine. May I be excused for snooping around here voyeristically, but cheers for your nuptuals!
I hope that the weather has changed dramatically of late,and now it is not drizzling but scorching outside..And you cant always retain that misty scenery hatched on the tablets of your memory.Nature is changing pendilum-like,so i think that it is a high time to update the outside-scenery section of the space and to regulary keep on updating it, feeling the pulse of a time. It may turn out that we are all bound to return to this ghoulish weather again.Never is the long word!.
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Sol Posted Jul 4, 2002
Hi there Gardener! Welcome to h2g2! Fantastic! Another Russian researcher. This is so weird... there haven't been any for ages, and yet here are three in three months! Terribly exciting, though.
I'd hope my command of English is good. I am English And an English teacher if it comes to that. I really wish my Russian was as good as your English, but sadly that isn't true...
I'm glad you like my humble home I do take your point about the wheel of time and the changing seasons, actually, but... Well, I rather miss British autumns. Especially when it is boiling hot outside. I am not a hot weather person! So the drizzle stays
Where are you based? And how did you find this place? Thanks for the congrats - and you're not snooping! What's on my space is public property!
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Gardener Posted Jul 20, 2002
hi,Solnushka.
Sorry to have made you wait too long and my for mixing up what type of person you are. My intelligence was not as good as it should have been and I'm but a newbie here after all.
I'm on holiday now in Newcastle -upon -Tyne and my access to the net will be limited up until September.will have only an occasional glimpse of h2g2.
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Sol Posted Jul 22, 2002
Hey, no worries, Gardener! It's not always easy when all you have to go on with someone is a bunch of text. I am always getting people's sex wrong, if it helps!
Hope you are enjoying Newcastle? How are you getting on with the accent? I can never understand it.....
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Gardener Posted Aug 19, 2002
don't rib me on account of my accent - mine is slurish and lapping,i confide, but what the hock? anyway it is not much worse off than that of Jade Goody of Big Brother.(the thing i enjoyed watching while being in Newcastle , no i didnt become a salted slug as critics viciously prophesised-this show is only worth of taking in homeopathic doses.) So i feel that even with mine i may get somewhere.
what did you change your introduction space for? if my humble opinion is anything to go by, the last one was better. Is it because even the best thing wears off or your steadfast preocupation with samovar experiments (the string i enjoyed this time)dramatically increased layers of soot and grime on ceiling,windows , bookcases etc and made your home seem as pre-70th London Undeground? Take care immersed in your "moping-up" operation not to slope out the No-logo book, one that ( in blackly binding terms) forms a stark contrast to other "green or blue" works of art on the shelf and the one i'm flicking through now.
Now that I left Newcastle I station myself in a country-house continying inceasing fight with weeds and still remain off-limits to the net. Newcastle is a great city , my bookmark says. - I agree.
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Sol Posted Aug 20, 2002
NO! No, no, no, no, no! I didn't mean your accent! I meant the accent of people who live in Newcastle. I can't understand people from Newcastle! It's true! I find the Russian accent much much more comprehensible. Your accent can't possibly be as bad as theirs.
Big Brother, eh? I saw a bit of the first series... and a lot of the first series of Za Steklom here. Much more raunchy I gather Jade became the bane of the nation though. Why is that, do you think?
Oh well, I am just having a clean up. Probably the old page'll go up again, once I'vee blown the dust out the corners and (who knows) inserted some GuideML...
Enjoy yourself at your countryhouse!
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Gardener Posted Sep 3, 2002
It looks strange that the city that has given world steam trains and railways maintains such a strange dialect-isn't it? Britain has so many vernaculars over such a tiny expanse of land that the advent of railways should have erased them.I'm dumfounded that it is not the case,though the answer is simple... Great North Eastern railway charges such monstrous fares now. So if it did the same in the 19 century when the public was poor Newcastle might have found itself in isolation.I think it is up to people. Most of them speak distinctly there, others put on the graces of Newcastle dialect only to make one feel dumb.
No, it is not the big brother i enjoyed. Nasty tacky thing,i only watched it twice.It is the publicity surrounding it.Anyway, Jade might be the bane of the nation, but don't look down at her, for she beats English Language professors at their own game -after her groundbraking contribution to the annals of linguistics, JADEisms i mean: "Is Sherlock Holmes the guy who invented toilets?" What are other lunguistic notions compared to that? To my mind Jade has the worst accent ever imaginable:it is a shame but I understood not a word of her pronouncements. My Jadeism:*Jade looking at a puffing samovar* "So that is samovar then, why did you fill it with such a filthy water?" I think one should write a Guide Entry on Jadeisms. As early as the begining of August Big Brother was still heating the headlines so , unless you are the reader of the heavies, you should have heard much about Big brother 3. After all, what is the first thing you ask your friends to bring to Moscow,apart from wedding souvenirs, papers I think... I brought 9 kg 300 grams of them. And the BATH Cronicle is a crown of my collection. The town I mean, not a paper dealing with bathroom or something ( this topic is the pick of the day among Guide Entries as of September 3, bye the bye).
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