AylingFlop wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:00 am
The midges haven’t been a problem, but the horse flies are massive & really go for it when I’m walking my dog along a bridleway that goes through a dairy farm. I think they must get bored with trying to bite the cows.
whiteswan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:30 am
You beat me to it Sara. Its wonderful stuff, we always had a bottle on the boat for Summer sailing. Not a single bite once we'd applied it
Apparently, they're not allowed to advertise it as an insect repellent because it hasn't jumped through the required 'science' hoops... but anyone who spends any time near water knows that it works.
whiteswan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:35 am
Not a language as such but I'm learning the deaf alphabet. I'm up to Q at the moment, hopefully sign language the next step
Oh, well done! That's another thing I've tried and failed to learn properly. Very useful skills to have.
Talking of languages, my daughter is doing Spanish for GCSE and we have discovered an app called Duolingo. It's great for learning the basics, though I don't think it alone would make you fluent. Always thought having a second language would be a very useful life skill, and Spanish is, I believe, the third most spoken language on earth. The hope is I'll never have to speak English loudly and slowly to a Spanish waiter again!!
"When the going gets weird, the weird get professional!" Hunter S Thompson
I speak a few languages, but it's English folk very often ask me to repeat what I've said, something to do with my Yorkshire accent.
When I'm abroad, it's common to hear the locals talking about us, not knowing I to listen what they say, Arabic has been very uselful over t' years.
"Critics are men that watch a battle from a high place, then come down and shoot the survivors"
mentalcase wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 11:44 am
I speak a few languages, but it's English folk very often ask me to repeat what I've said, something to do with my Yorkshire accent.
When I'm abroad, it's common to hear the locals talking about us, not knowing I to listen what they say, Arabic has been very uselful over t' years.
mentalcase wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 11:44 am
I speak a few languages, but it's English folk very often ask me to repeat what I've said, something to do with my Yorkshire accent.
When I'm abroad, it's common to hear the locals talking about us, not knowing I to listen what they say, Arabic has been very uselful over t' years.
