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Mum, come to our place and have a white Christmas! Emmi and Sophy were making “snow” outside this afternoon. I’m sure if we keep them at it, there will be enough to get a good dusting on the earwigs
This has nothing to do with snow, or anything, really. But I’ve been busting to say it.
You know how I can’t eat wheat at the moment? I’ve been getting a very nice bread made from millet flour. So does that mean I can say: “I eat millet for breakfast!”? Or will I get into trouble?
Har har! Well, luckily Millet (the ethnic group) is pronounced differently to millet (the cereal)! You put the emPHAsis on the other sylLAble.
You raise a good point. On the video, when we said “the mahalle is the Turkish part of town”… we should have said “Millet part of town” or “Turkish-speaking part of town”. Just to be technical. And that way you would have heard us pronounce it, see? Only, it was aimed at 4-10 year-olds so it didn’t have to be factually correct. For example, Elly changed her name to Alice? (you have to pronounce the question mark), and yet we still called her Elly.
Yeah, I actually knew about the pronunciation thing.
I take issue with the statement that a video produced for 4-10 year-olds “didn’t have to be factually correct”, for several reasons. Not least of which is the fact that 4-10 year-olds will ALWAYS pull you up if they know you are wrong, and things will ALWAYS come back to bite you.
I didn’t get the Alice? thing. Just Stu-humour? (Remember I’m sleep-deprived.)
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17 comments so far for “First Snow!”
12Dec 2009 at 8:28 am :
woohoo! Snow – how lovely – does this mean you will have a WHITE Christmas? nice photo.
Enjoy it!
love and hugs
L & P
12Dec 2009 at 1:26 pm :
Mum, come to our place and have a white Christmas! Emmi and Sophy were making “snow” outside this afternoon. I’m sure if we keep them at it, there will be enough to get a good dusting on the earwigs
12Dec 2009 at 1:27 pm :
BTW Stu and Elly, loved the panorama and the frozen feral cats.
You should patent the idea and sell it to Forestry Tas rather than them using 1080
13Dec 2009 at 3:55 am :
Elly, you spelt ‘here’ from in you roll-ever text.
But good to see that the view hasn’t changed much. I think I’m in the wrong country now
I got ranga-burnt yesterday in only 30mins.
13Dec 2009 at 9:41 am :
Fixed! Stu actually wrote the roll-over text, we’d only been up 10 mins!
And here I am graciously ignoring your incoherent ‘telling me off’ sentence.
14Dec 2009 at 12:21 am :
“you spelt ‘here’ from in you roll-ever text” ??!
Speck! Log!!
14Dec 2009 at 12:44 pm :
This has nothing to do with snow, or anything, really. But I’ve been busting to say it.
You know how I can’t eat wheat at the moment? I’ve been getting a very nice bread made from millet flour. So does that mean I can say: “I eat millet for breakfast!”? Or will I get into trouble?
14Dec 2009 at 3:55 pm :
Har har! Well, luckily Millet (the ethnic group) is pronounced differently to millet (the cereal)! You put the emPHAsis on the other sylLAble.
You raise a good point. On the video, when we said “the mahalle is the Turkish part of town”… we should have said “Millet part of town” or “Turkish-speaking part of town”. Just to be technical. And that way you would have heard us pronounce it, see? Only, it was aimed at 4-10 year-olds so it didn’t have to be factually correct. For example, Elly changed her name to Alice? (you have to pronounce the question mark), and yet we still called her Elly.
Bye now.
15Dec 2009 at 8:37 am :
Yeah, I actually knew about the pronunciation thing.
I take issue with the statement that a video produced for 4-10 year-olds “didn’t have to be factually correct”, for several reasons. Not least of which is the fact that 4-10 year-olds will ALWAYS pull you up if they know you are wrong, and things will ALWAYS come back to bite you.
I didn’t get the Alice? thing. Just Stu-humour? (Remember I’m sleep-deprived.)
15Dec 2009 at 8:54 am :
Your Mum is sleep-deprived.
15Dec 2009 at 10:00 am :
no I’m not!!!
15Dec 2009 at 10:43 am :
“Hey, don’t you shout at me! My mother is your mother, ok?” Fish taxi in Shark Tale.
18Dec 2009 at 12:28 am :
Both your mums are sleep-deprived!
18Dec 2009 at 8:21 am :
Dad? They started it.
19Dec 2009 at 2:20 am :
hey can you upload a bigger versin of this somewhere? its pretty cool but i’d like to really check out the detail.
19Dec 2009 at 9:31 am :
Hey Will,
I’ll have to find a better panorama maker, but yeah, I can try!
Cheers
Stu
21Dec 2009 at 6:50 am :
hey stu… for a photo stitcher try:
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
It takes a while to do the processing, and I don’t understand what half of the options mean, but it does an awesome job.