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Me too, Mouse, lol. Hoping for a nice indian summer to ripen a good crop of outdoor grapes, we are eating those fed into the greenhouse, a really heavy crop!
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Dear Nature's Babe, the Indian Summer will commence from tomorrow. 
And i now have visions of yourself and your Mum laying on Chaise-lounges eating bunches of grapes.
And i now have visions of yourself and your Mum laying on Chaise-lounges eating bunches of grapes.
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oldherbaceous wrote: the Indian Summer will commence from tomorrow
Watch out for the cold nights - a lot of talk of rural ground frost, especially Tuesday night in Bedfordshire
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Why thank you kind Sir.
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OH, plenty of delish grapes, but no chaise longue, Mum would eat all her meals in bed given half a chance !Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconcieved notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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alan refail wrote:oldherbaceous wrote: the Indian Summer will commence from tomorrow
Watch out for the cold nights - a lot of talk of rural ground frost, especially Tuesday night in Bedfordshire
Bore da OH
Cloudless sky here this morning, sun well up. Looks as though you were correct
Temperature at dawn 4C, heavy dew just the liquid side of ground frost. Looks as though I was right too
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Bore da Alan, you were right too, made my fingers tingle picking veg at first light.
Off to work in a while, so will look for a shady spot.
Off to work in a while, so will look for a shady spot.
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Dear Alan, don't know if you will know but, do you know if Bryn Fuches means anything? It is a farm name by the way!
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oldherbaceous wrote:Dear Alan, don't know if you will know but, do you know if Bryn Fuches means anything? It is a farm name by the way!
P'nawn da OH
Dim problem!
Bryn is hill
Buches is a milking herd or a milking shed
Bryn (y) fuches is Milk cows hill.
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Dear Alan, thank you so,so much for that, you really are a star.
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Thanks OH 
All place names means something; it's just that sometimes we can't figure out what
Actually almost all Welsh place names/farm names are self explanatory (if you understand Welsh).
All place names means something; it's just that sometimes we can't figure out what
Actually almost all Welsh place names/farm names are self explanatory (if you understand Welsh).
The "dim problem" reminded me, Alan: when we were in Wales on holiday many moons ago, we used to try and read the Welsh road signs and worked out that "dim parcio' meant "no parking". Ever after that when somebody got their knickers in a twist in the family, the children, then in their teens, used to shout "Dim fretio", their version of "Don't fret!". I just hope it doesn't mean something rude in real Welsh!
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It's going to be a good day for gardening.
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Morning Monika
No, you're in the clear; ffretio is a perfectly respectable borrowing from English - though "don't fret" would be "paid â ffretio" or more likely "paid â phoeni" (N. Wales) or "paid becso" (S Wales).
A few interesting Welsh-English "false friends":
bad = boat
bore = morning
brain = crows
drain = thorns
hen = old
moron = carrots
plant = children
tin = backside
And a more modern one: the txtspk "lol" means "nonsense" in Welsh
No, you're in the clear; ffretio is a perfectly respectable borrowing from English - though "don't fret" would be "paid â ffretio" or more likely "paid â phoeni" (N. Wales) or "paid becso" (S Wales).
A few interesting Welsh-English "false friends":
bad = boat
bore = morning
brain = crows
drain = thorns
hen = old
moron = carrots
plant = children
tin = backside
And a more modern one: the txtspk "lol" means "nonsense" in Welsh