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Re: Our Weather
By: Lyn Date: June 23, 2023, 5:25 am
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Hot and muggy here today.
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Re: Our Weather
By: Leslie Date: June 23, 2023, 5:43 am
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It is supposed to rain here today.
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Re: Our Weather
By: Stephen Horsfall Date: June 24, 2023, 12:32 am
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Looks like the start of another hotty. Yesterday started out
dull and cool, but brightened up and became hot.
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Re: Our Weather
By: Leslie Date: June 27, 2023, 7:16 pm
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It rained on and off all day, sometimes it was heavy rain.
Tomorrow we are going to have some smog from forest fires. And
the extreme heat from Texas and Florida is supposed to arrive
here too. I don't know which will come first.
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Re: Our Weather
By: Stephen Horsfall Date: June 28, 2023, 1:26 am
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Overcast. Cooler than of late, but no significant rain yet,
which the garden could do with. Yesterday was quite breezy, but
it's still at the moment.
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Re: Our Weather
By: gwinnie Date: June 28, 2023, 3:48 am
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It’s refreshing. Forecast seems to be for a 2-week scorcher in
July so I’m making the most of the current weather!
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Re: Our Weather
By: Gregory Date: June 28, 2023, 7:03 am
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Apart from high temperatures (around 30º midday here but 40º in
some parts of Spain) we've had intense humidity for several days
now, which makes life very uncomfortable, especially during the
nights despite two fans at full tilt in the bedroom.
Fortunately, Don Quijote isn't around; he'd probably tilt at the
fans with his lance mistaking them for mini-windmills:
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Re: Our Weather
By: Stephen Horsfall Date: June 29, 2023, 7:36 am
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50-odd years ago, when I were nobbut a lad, foreign words and
names were often pronounced as though they were English, even by
people who must have known the correct pronunciation - thus a
gentleman's gentleman was called a valett, whereas now he is a
vallay (Hughie Green, the 60s TV personality, started his
working life as a valet. His former employer wrote a book called
"Hugh Green was my Valet"). More to the point, the caballero de
la triste figura was then called "Don Quick Sote", but is
nowadays more correctly referred to as "Donkey Hotey".
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Re: Our Weather
By: Gregory Date: June 29, 2023, 9:03 am
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[quote author=Steve link=topic=20.msg6640#msg6640
date=1688042166]
More to the point, the caballero de la triste figura was then
called "Don Quick Sote", but is nowadays more correctly referred
to as "Donkey Hotey".
[/quote]
Or 'the knight of the sorrowful countenance', an evocative
English translation. Another English version (from the French)
was Don Quixote, pronounced 'Don Quick Shot', suggesting a
rapidly downed small glass of whisky. As for Donkey Hotey, many
years ago I went into an English bookshop and asked for a copy
of Don Quijote in English. After poring over the catalogue, the
assistant said, "Sorry, we don't have any books beginning
'Donkey'. Cupid stunt...
Then there's Lewis Carroll's version:
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Re: Our Weather
By: Leslie Date: July 6, 2023, 4:23 pm
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Very hot weather here in Etobicoke the last few days, until
right now when it is starting to rain and cooling down.
My daughter and friends are enjoying themselves at our
cottage.It will be cooler by the lake. They have a canoe only as
the boat has no charge in the battery, or gas.
Our friend returned this week from Gozo, and we saw her today at
church, she looks well after four weeks in Malta and Gozo.
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