The Canary Dave

I see that "Just a Minute" has returned.

 

Technically speaking if I use the adjective 'English' to describe a teacher - then surely I am describing his nationality and not his subject. As it could mean that Yorkie was a teacher, and was English. As in the case of 'We had 2 Pakistani teachers at School' - but were they really teaching Urdu or Punjabi ? Should it not be 'teacher of English' ?

 

You surely mean 'We had two Pakistani teachers...' - bad form to use digits in a sentence instead of words.

Or so I was informed by Mr. Grimstead at WBGS all those years ago.

You're correct though, in my humble opinion. English is such a 'clunky' language to use and learn that we tend to take shortcuts wherever we can.

 

Marrakech. Same as last year we enjoyed it so much.

 

Is that a phrase and therefore needing a verb?

 

Yes, technically I was an English teacher of English. However today I would for the time being at least whilst we still have a Britain prefer to be called British.( I am not sure if that last sentence required any commas).

 

Phrases don't need verbs...clauses do!

 

OK you lovely people, I'm off to bed!

Night all

Night H

 

Good morning all from a warm and dry Weston-super-Mare!

Have a good day!

 

Missing a comma, perhaps, or "as"? I'm on holiday and I really don't give a monkey's about being grammatically correct insofar as this thread is concerned. It would be important on other threads where I am making a point. You understood my original meaning, the pick up comes across as disappointingly gratuitous.

 

OK you lovely people, I'm off to bed!

Night all

Night H

 

Good morning all from a warm and dry Weston-super-Mare!

Have a good day!

 

Good morning all from a cloudy island. I went to Bristol for a softball tournament. I went despite being unable to play due to injury, but as I'd paid for the trip I decided to go. The team, which included jerzeypie, did very well, coming away as cup runners-up. There were some travel issues which are lengthy enough to require their own post, which I will do this evening.

 

Morning all, spending a couple of days with daughter and family who are over from England. They have a motor home, so take an easy drive down, stopping when they feel like it. They always say how easy it is to find sites to park up, connect up to electricity and water at modest cost. The site they are on at present is €10 per night, whereas a site in the Lake District cost them £40 per night.

 

There are thousands of CL sites in the UK that charge about £10 a night. It is possible to pay a lot more both in the UK and in Europe. There are many sites in France that charge more than £40 per night. Where France is much superior is nearly all towns and villages have an area geared for motorhomes with water and electricity supplies. In addition France has a scheme where you camp on farms for free, just purchase some local produce. We used to have a motorhome, we now use a caravan for mooching about.

 

Another lazy day, sunning by the pool.... The pool is the size of a small marina. Enormous.

 

As promised, my weekend travel woes. On Friday, we were supposed to get the flight leaving at 8.40pm for Gatwick, but it was delayed due to issues with the baggage carousels at Gatwick, so we didn't take off until gone midnight. One of my team-mates had booked a hire car, but the desk was closed by the time we got there. Our captain, who had gone over by ferry on Thursday to take the kit, collected us - he was being kept informed, so we only had to wait a few minutes before he arrived. It was 4.30 by the time we arrived at our hotel in Bristol and we had to be in reception by 8 to go to the tournament - the first match was at 9, and we needed time to warm up. We came back on Monday and were due to take off at 10.10am but Jersey was fog-bound, so we didn't get on the plane until 7.45pm and had to sit waiting 35 minutes for our slot to take-off. I got the bus home when I was back on the island as I didn't have enough for a taxi, so didn't get home until after 10.30 - more than 12 hours after we were due to take-off.

 

Don't you love it when a plan comes together?

Hope you've caught up on some sleep now Barry!

 

OK you lovely people, I'm off to bed!

Night all

Night H

 

We got caught up at Gatwick on Friday too. I can corroborate your tale to a point. We got away some three hours + late. We arrived at our hotel 04:00 BST.