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I know you are probably all heartily fed up with the grass trimmer topic by now, but an interesting observation.

After a weekend of planting out sweetcorn, tomatoes, beetroot, butternut squash, courgettes, runner beans and borlotti beans, I leant back on my fork and surveyed the plot.  Groovy, I thought - looks productive....  

One of my fellow plotties strolled past, stopped and looked over the  land.  I was expecting congratulations on my growing prowess ... but no.  'Paths look nice.' he said!

AC x   ::)

We recently re-did our paths. The lottie neighbor noticed, stopped, looked and said in his heavy West-Frisian dialect "one could walk to your shed on ones' sunday shoes on paths like that".
As I was getting weak from laughter and he just stood there and grinned.

nooo joohh je meent ut tis ni waor.JUst between us ina sorry all others.

Pretty good Ruud.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ac.  That made me laugh out loud!  The old chap on our site didn't compliment me on my veggies, or my neat paths (cos they aint!) but my bean pole construction! hehehehehehe.

Yo EJ - suppose we ought to be grateful for being complimented on anything, really!  AC x   8)  

I know AC.  We took Avas 'step' grandad up to the plot at the weekend to see it - he fancies himself as a gardening expert and is very quick to criticise everyone and he has done nothing but take the Michael out of my gardening......so he told me he was impressed with what I had achieved, not bad for a weak and feeble femail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  >:( :o :( >:(  I don't know!!  I despair!!!  :)

Quote from: ruud on June 01, 2004, 22:54:53
nooo joohh je meent ut tis ni waor.JUst between us ina sorry all others.

no you - he meant is it not something.

That's my guess anyway. I used to find spoken dutch really easy to understand when my German was better. But warning - my sister lives in the Netherlands, so I may have a translator!

Sorry A, wrong.
West Frisian is even hard for Dutch people to understand hahaha.

Hoi ina,ben jenoch naer de tuin weest,ik woal hep woat chinese koal hoalt.Try this one aquilegia,nice time spending job.

Hi Ruud,
How come you know West Frisian?
I can understand of course but can't speak it, I'm import, originally from IJmuiden and Haarlem (were they speak the purest Dutch, so they say). I do like West Friesland and it's people a lot.

Ina my parents are origanely from de zaan,my father is born in wormeveer and my mother is born in west-zaan.Why do i tell you this at home my parents always spoke in dialect,so i am raised in that dialect.That dialect is almost the same as west-frisian.So now you now everything and i am off to my lottie,if i have time holland is playing against ireland,till tonight on this side,bye,bye.

Ah, that explains it.
Have a good time at the lottie. I just went today and ohhhhhhh, them strawberries!!!!!!!!!!!

Those srawberries,they are so sweet and there are so many of them.Strawberryfields forever.