THE BRITISH THREAD

And happy new year to you Smorgshy.

And all on the Brit thread, british or not.

Including Spendy.


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Just heard on radio 5 (what a sad bastard I am eh? ...actually still recovering from traditional festive cold...dont feel like going out...)


...that in Germany women about to go into labour are doing everything they can to delay giving birth (how do you do that?) for an hour or two so they qualify for state payments for children born from 1 jan 2007.

Oh, yeah, I read that too...

German mid-wives are warning woman not to use any delaying tactics (old wives tales, mostly) in case it harms the babies.

I believe they stand to loose a substancial amount of money if those children are born before midnight.

But i suppose there has to be a cut - off point for everything.

x

Oh, I forgot to say

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!Hope you all have a great 2007.


Love and best wishes

Sarah
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But pregnant students have to quick - only 40 minutes to go for a newborn baby .... and getting more money than in 41 minutes for mama!

Having missed the cut - off point 9 months earlier it oughtn't to take too much getting used to.

A Happy New Year to all my British friends and others from 'Downunder'.

Sing...

A guid new year tae ane an' a'
And mony may ye see
A guid new year tae ane an' a'
An' happy may ye be

(tune: Trad)

A wee bit of Scottishness creeps in at about this time, so get the words of the song right for once this year:

AULD LANG SYNE

Words adapated from a traditional song
by Rabbie Burns (1759-96)

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp,
And surely I'll be mine,
And we'll tak a cup o kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou'd the gowans fine,
But we've wander'd monie a weary fit,
Sin auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidl'd in the burn
Frae morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin auld lang syne.

And there's a hand my trusty fiere,
And gie's a hand o thine,
And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught,
For auld lang syne

Meanings

auld lang syne - times gone by
be - pay for
braes - hills
braid - broad
burn - stream
dine - dinner time
fiere - friend
fit - foot
gowans - daisies
guid-willie waught - goodwill drink
monie - many
morning sun - noon
paidl't - paddled
pint-stowp - pint tankard
pou'd - pulled
twa - two

I watched the Edinburough tattoo the other night. Theres some weird get ups out there in the way of uniforms.

Highlights were the NZ military band doing a haka and the Top Secret swiss drum band.

Thanks for the song(s) Mctag my fiere.

There is not another nation on this earth which could put on a firework display as witty as that one was.

Sidney was a bureaucratic train time-table by the side of it.

On intellectual prowess we have no competition.

My dear spendius, please make this New Year resolution:

"I am a normal human being, void of any eruditeness, proud of being British, acknowledging intelligent people can be found in all walks of life, and who can still teach me how to act with a great deal of savoir-faire".

That bloke who designed our firework display is as normal as normal gets and if his joke went over anybody's head it has nothing to do with me.

I have already made my new year resolution on the Questions Game and it is that I resolve not to leave any Xs,Y,s or Zs for Acronym Game players to have their imaginations crimped with.

I am averse to the crimping of imaginations. It's Old Testament stuff.

New Year wishes
Hi and happy New Year to you Sarah.

And a happy New Year to all readers and contributors to the British thread.

Just got back from having a few bevvies, so I won't try to add anything intelligent. Have a good 2007

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Hey welcome, Tufdevil.

Hangover not too bad, I hope.

McT

Not quite, sussy, babies rarely arrive on their alloted day.

x

Re: New Year wishes


Don't worry about that Tuf, I regularly post daft stuff on here, and I intend to continue throughout 2007.

Happy New Year and welcome to the British Thread.

x

I know now why I'm a cricketer at heart...

The Great Escape's on later - Yipeee!

NOW it feels like Christmas.

x

Good point!

Late start because of rain. Strauss just out - 29! c Gilchrist; b Lee.

234-4 at COP, that's not three bad.