This weeks offerings........

Size and sighs. ‘What size’, she sighs. Grown and groan. The spring has sprung, the grass is grown, groan, and it has to be mown, moan. I’ve been trying to get hold of you, means, I’ve been trying to speak to you, not that I wish to physically embrace you. A flat mate could be someone with whom you share an apartment, or an unfortunate friend who has been run over by a steamroller.
Right away, means, at once. I told you to do it right away, not half an hour later! But it can also mean, at a distance. Take that animal right away from me. And, to add confusion, write away can be to order by mail. The shirts in the catalogue look good, I think I’ll write away for some.
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We still haven’t found out why on site has been stolen in hijacked but will continue to investigate.
In the meantime for your edification and erudition a few of my “most forgettable characters”:

-Phyllis Tyne, a lady lacking in the appreciation of the finer things.
-Olive Grove, a lady horticulturalist.
-Daisy Chain, a floral arranger.
-Meggawatti, Malayasian lady electrician

and a few dislexic notes:

File behind, put into correct position at the back.
File behind, use a tool with multiple cutting teeth, often made of steel, to remove excess material from the rear.

A fly past, usually military aircraft proceeding in formation in front of an inspecting person of rank.
A fly passed, a small winged insert had moved across, on in front of.

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Have you ever thought about film “trailers”? The general dictionary definition is something like “a series of short extracts from a moving picture, a film or a movie, introduced at a previous performance to promote interest in the forthcoming production. An advertisement”. And, over the years we’ve accepted this.

All the other definitions in the dictionary refer to something behind, left behind, pulled behind etc, but never in advance. Even a pathway, a trail, is something left by passing feet.

Could it be that one of the staff in the early days in Hollywood wanted to lay a path or a trail to the next super production? Or could it be that the person concerned, and remember that many of the production staff were newly arrived European immigrants, and perhaps “ignorants” as well, and miss- spelled trial as trail, hence a trial became a trail, and a trialer, to try out the audience reaction became, by usage, a trailer?

What’s in a word?

What’s in a word? A rose, by any other name, still smells as sweet.

What’s Wat doing? Wat Tyler led a small peasant’s revolt in England some years ago. But the revolt wasn’t by country workers of short stature, and the revolting farmers were not of themselves unpleasant, but by their actions they became revolutionaries.

So, the peasants are revolting………they are planning a revolution
But also, the peasants are revolting,……… they are ugly, dirty, ignorant

And one could perhaps say that, the revolting peasants are revolting

And of course a man called Watt had a lot to do with the organisation of electricity.

A rose as well is not just a flower, it can be a circular decorative addition to a ceiling, a plastic or metal pod for attaching a suspended electrical cable, and also the head of a water irrigation system.

Be careful that the water from the irrigation rose doesn’t touch the electrical rose, just water the rose flower.
Be careful that the water from the rose doesn’t touch the rose, just water the rose.

This language of ours, it’s not easy.

John Tunstill

3 Day Cookery Course at La Preghiera Weds 26th April - Saturday 30th April

Join us at La Preghiera for a hands-on cookery course experience in Umbria, Italy.

Meet our cooks, Mara and Emma and learn how to make fresh pasta, fillings, sauces, traditional Umbrian antipasti, meats, salads and dolci....

The course includes a trip to a local market where you can savour the atmosphere of a thriving market town and buy fruit, vegetables, prosciutto and cheeses, the ingredients that you will need for the course.

Also included is an excursion to find the highly prized "Tartufo" or truffle in the valleys around Città di Castello, learning how to prepare and use them in Italian cooking with a dinner based on truffles afterwards...

The course includes:
3 nights luxury accommodation in historic home
Three hands-on cookery classes, approx 3 hours each
All meals including: Buffet Breakfast, Lunch with wine, soft drinks and coffee, Dinner with aperitivo, wine, liqueurs, soft drinks and coffee
Aperitivo and Stuzzichini on first evening
Truffle Hunting Excursion and market visit
Car, driver and interpreter where necessary
With prices from 1255 Euro per person....

Contact Sally Ann at info@lapreghiera.com to reserve your place on the course!