I see several people are sporting festive additions to their avatars; love the snowflake, Spamar! Slugsta, maybe your snail needs a wreath round an antenna or something.
RedLou, what a fascinating holiday you had. I have a special affection for the cheetahs as I have a friend who once worked in research in that field, and did a stint at a cheetah conservation centre in Botswana, I think. Apparently it's very difficult to convince local farmers not to kill them, as they do prey on livestock. (But not people--even without the impala you likely would not have been their idea of a main course!) I also think it would be fascinating to see the turtles laying their eggs. I know it can be observed on the east coast of the States at certain times of the year (depending on species, I imagine) but I've not had the opportunity.
JM, I've been told often enough about the weather variations in the UK (especially on the travel fora I frequent) that you would think I would know this by now. The BBC had some nice snowy photos this morning. I also saw the headline for the Cornish language predictive text app that Spamar mentioned, but haven't read the article yet.
Ann, I re-read your description of where your course was held and it sounds fascinating and beautiful, but I have to wonder, what was it like for the people who lived there (with no central heating). I know it's all down to temperament and so on, but you wonder about living someplace so isolated.
I also appreciate all the information on Welsh. I'm not a linguist by any means, but I do find languages fascinating and fun. As a child I read a series of books by Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising series), one of which is set in Wales, and has some Welsh language information in one scene, which utterly entranced me. While I'm all in favour of people being able to communicate with a common language, the relationship between language and culture is complex, and I feel a pang when I read reports about languages dying out. Ann, I'm not surprised that you remembered more of your Welsh than you thought you would as I've heard similar stories.
So I hope Ann has had an uneventful journey home and can now concentrate on festive preparations!
As some of you have seen, I've started my own thread over in the Dealing with Difficult Feelings subforum. I had a rough time after the care home visit last weekend and finally went for the individual thread. You are all more than welcome to drop by, but not required, and I won't abandon your thread, Ann, I promise! I've been too comfortable here for too long. I'll just take some of my own stuff, elsewhere.
I did have a conversation with the care home's nurse manager and they have promised to suspend ordering of the incontinence products for now; we will see! I've also been to the care home twice this week, one not great visit when I wasn't recognized, and one more normal visit when I was, but she is still "off." I am getting her checked out by the neurologist next week. In fact, I should go work on my letter to him right now.
Hope everyone here is as well as can be and much love to you all.
RedLou, what a fascinating holiday you had. I have a special affection for the cheetahs as I have a friend who once worked in research in that field, and did a stint at a cheetah conservation centre in Botswana, I think. Apparently it's very difficult to convince local farmers not to kill them, as they do prey on livestock. (But not people--even without the impala you likely would not have been their idea of a main course!) I also think it would be fascinating to see the turtles laying their eggs. I know it can be observed on the east coast of the States at certain times of the year (depending on species, I imagine) but I've not had the opportunity.
JM, I've been told often enough about the weather variations in the UK (especially on the travel fora I frequent) that you would think I would know this by now. The BBC had some nice snowy photos this morning. I also saw the headline for the Cornish language predictive text app that Spamar mentioned, but haven't read the article yet.
Ann, I re-read your description of where your course was held and it sounds fascinating and beautiful, but I have to wonder, what was it like for the people who lived there (with no central heating). I know it's all down to temperament and so on, but you wonder about living someplace so isolated.
I also appreciate all the information on Welsh. I'm not a linguist by any means, but I do find languages fascinating and fun. As a child I read a series of books by Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising series), one of which is set in Wales, and has some Welsh language information in one scene, which utterly entranced me. While I'm all in favour of people being able to communicate with a common language, the relationship between language and culture is complex, and I feel a pang when I read reports about languages dying out. Ann, I'm not surprised that you remembered more of your Welsh than you thought you would as I've heard similar stories.
So I hope Ann has had an uneventful journey home and can now concentrate on festive preparations!
As some of you have seen, I've started my own thread over in the Dealing with Difficult Feelings subforum. I had a rough time after the care home visit last weekend and finally went for the individual thread. You are all more than welcome to drop by, but not required, and I won't abandon your thread, Ann, I promise! I've been too comfortable here for too long. I'll just take some of my own stuff, elsewhere.
I did have a conversation with the care home's nurse manager and they have promised to suspend ordering of the incontinence products for now; we will see! I've also been to the care home twice this week, one not great visit when I wasn't recognized, and one more normal visit when I was, but she is still "off." I am getting her checked out by the neurologist next week. In fact, I should go work on my letter to him right now.
Hope everyone here is as well as can be and much love to you all.
