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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

I have very fond memories of my daughter's dog Buddy. He was a Staffie cross but looked like a black labrador. He was the most obedient dog I have ever come across. I loved him to bits and he would sit between my knees, look up at me and 'talk' to me. When my daughter died, my son in law had to find a new home for him because he is a long-distance lorry driver. They also had my daughter's own Patterdale, Rosie and they had to be kept together so I knew I couldn't manage them. He is now too far away for me to go and see him.
 
Sorry, didn't get chance to post last few days.
Eye consultation went well, surgeons very pleased but I'm now on 3 different drops a day, 1 x 4 1 x1 and 1x3 so now my brain hurts trying to remember which I've taken when!

On our journey SW I did have a jacket potato with tuna mayo for lunch and it was lovely. I did leave half the potato
Supper was a chicken and bean dish cooked by host, followed by baked figs and cream. Probably too many carbs, definitely too much wine.
Friday long dog walk, salad lunch, hardboiled eggs for tea.
Saturday another dog walk, only an hour this time, salad bits, kofta for tea. Then local pub for live music. 2 wines
Sunday sausage egg and mushrooms for breakfast, long dog walk. Ice cream midafternoon. Tea 2 cold sausages, cream cheese on seedy crackers .1 wine

Lovely weather and forecast to get even better
 
Annb said:
Is there an issue with "humourous" that I've missed?
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Apparently it's incorrect, according to this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humourous
I think I've looked it up in the past to make sure I used the correct UK form but I don't really dare using the search bar to see which form I've used in the past.

I should have been sanding the garden shed of a friend today.
But yesterday I was chatting online with Tom, the date I had a couple of weeks ago through that dating site, but who was married so not really a date but still very nice if you remember.
A while back he had promised me a book he found very interesting himself, on the history of democracy from both a practical and a philosophical angle. It was hard to order so it took a while, but when he tried to send it to me yesterday DHL didn't accept because he didn't have my last name or email address so he brought it back home.
I provided him with the information and he replied with: "So I guess I won't be bringing you the book myself, seeing as you're working?"

Long story short, I informed my friend his garden shed would likely have to wait another day and I was woken up with coffee (my front door isn't locked), a very unusual experience when living alone!

After coffee we went to his boat and spent a log afternoon sailing, I've had the best day in ages!
Such a nice boat, it sails very well. What's more, despite it being his boat and him being a man, he came in from the angle that I was likely the better sailor and was very happy to learn from me and do the sailing together, letting me play with the ship and trying out my suggestions.
Which only makes sense to me, but still if you see boats with a man and a woman, 90% of the time it's the man commanding the woman around while holding on the helm himself as if his credibility as a man depends on it.
Sailing with Tom was very much a together thing so we spent a long and very pleasant afternoon!

I missed my morning swim so I made up for it in the middle of the lake. We wanted to try a sailing trick where the ship stays more or less on the spot and upright, very useful for solo sailing which he usually does. Turned out to work very well so the perfect situation for my daily swim.
I swam around the ship and then grabbed hold of the line we'd thrown out for safety and told him to start sailing again.
Hanging on with speed was an absolutely wonderful feeling!



 
 
Tom sounds like an interesting character @Antje77.
 
Morning all,
Hope everyone doing well.Back from hols so of course the Indian summer has started! Still, got the washing done and hung out to dry.Nothing exciting going on this week.Stayed fine foodwise whilst away, just a couple of ice-creams sneaked in, loads of long walks and stayed the same weight. SIL still pretty much in denial about pre-diabetes. She has been on a course from her GP’s but couldn’t really explain what they had said and hasn’t been back for a follow up Hba1c. I showed her the Freshwell traffic light food lists which really helped me. Doesn’t help that she is a really fussy eater and they have a big drinking, socialising lifestyle.I was biting my tongue a lot
 
LivingLightly said:
While humour is the noun form in UK English @Annb, the adjective humorous and adverb humorously are spelt by omitting the second U. Hope this helps.
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I guess I'm just old-fashioned. Certainly once-upon-a-time the extra "u" was used. And even these days I'm not the only one:

Examples from articles:

Fetus is my favorite mythical creature he humourously keeps breaking down as he is very old and he can also breathe fire. The Guardian April 13 2011
Also on the list is Super Sad True Love Story, a blackly humourous dystopian satire by Gary Shteyngart. The Guardian December 10 2012
He apologised and said his attempts to be "humourous" or "friendly" may have led others to become uncomfortable. BBC Nov 4, 2017

In fact, I refuse to be swayed. I'll stick with my form. Sorry.

NOTE: This site disapproves though and is underlining the word.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
I don't think it matters or is important in the grand scheme of life if someone doesn't spell something correctly.
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It doesn't and it isn't of course in the grand scheme of life!

But for some of us, language including spelling is a bit of a hobby, and it is for @LivingLightly , @Annb and myself.
We're all way to nice people to randomly correct others on this forum, there is no need to and we're here for diabetes, not language. I can assure you that none of us minds reading posts with language mistakes.
But between the 3 of us, with others chipping in as well sometimes, language and spelling is a recurring subject on this thread because we enjoy it.

For me it's especially useful, with English being a second language and everyone being too polite to correct me, it's impossible to improve. So I'm one of those idiots getting a jolt of happiness when LivingLightly patiently tells me for the umpteenth time that I'm taking a picture and not making one.
So please correct me where you can, and of course dont go around randomly correcting spelling mistakes.
Annb said:
In fact, I refuse to be swayed. I'll stick with my form. Sorry.

NOTE: This site disapproves though and is underlining the word.
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Be a rebel!

I'm all for sticking to a preferred way of spelling just because you prefer it, as long as it's a conscious decision.
 
My grammar school educated brain loves correct spelling. However I was never taught typing so my fingers often disagree with my brain

B: 1 sausage, mushrooms and scrambled egg.
A 3 hour walk, ups and downs. Love the South West Coastal path.
A nut bar

A late lunch of prawns, then bream with salsa Verde, various salad and chips.
A cherry icecream and 1 glass wine.

Skipping dinner, but having another glass wine
 
English is such a mixture of origins, dialects and accents, it becomes a great deal of fun working out where words come from, where they are now, and where they are heading in the future. Even more fun when you add in the puzzles of archaic characters like the thorn (þ) or wynn (ƿ), and the development of punctuation from the point where the Greeks and Romans didn't even use spaces between their words to the point where some people put in apostrophes in the wrong places because they don't understand what they are there for. Next thing will be that the apostrophe is faded out, apparently, but I would be sad to see it go, it is the source of much fun. Then there is the matter of the Oxford comma - to use or not to use - that is the question.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
I don't think it matters or is important in the grand scheme of life if someone doesn't spell something correctly.
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Call me a pedant @RosemaryJackson but we (that is @Annb and myself) have given @Antje77 occasional help with English grammar and spelling; an easy task because her wriitten English is nigh on perfect!

That's the reason for pointing out a form which doesn't actually exist either in UK English or in US English.
 
You're certainly not alone @Annb
The Guardian (nicknamed affectionately as Grauniad) is well known for its spelling slip-ups and typos.

The Oxford dictionary and the Cambridge dictionary list the corrrect spellings without an extra 'U'. Sorry.
 
Annb said:
Then there is the matter of the Oxford comma - to use or not to use - that is the question.
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There's no matter there for me - to use, definitely!

Frustratingly, there is no Oxford comma in Dutch (although we're allowed to throw in comma's as we see fit for easier reading if we really want to). So usually I don't use it when writing in Dutch, much as I'd love to.
 
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