(I have just sent a thank you to a friend who messaged me last week about sponsoring her daughter’s world book day reading challenge which meant it was at least in my brain, as I’m not sure I would have made the connection otherwise!)
Was walking the dog this morning and had a real scare as a child approached from the distance in full Joker makeup. Did at least manage to put the pieces together before they got to us…
Both helicopter and whirligig immediately popped into my head - so I’m not actually sure which I used! Best guess is either I used them both or maybe it was a US/UK divide (but how often do you talk about them age 14+?)
I noticed this shifting a year or two ago! No idea why though…
Pennsylvania, English, fire truck
(I didn’t realise that this was one US English had stuck around with me but replies have made that evident!)
A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"
Ferbruary #oldknees
I genuinely don’t think there’s a single other word that catches me out like this. Every time I pick it up my mind goes blank and my brain just repeats ‘or-REG-ano? Ora-GONE-oh?’
I have lived in the UK for over 20 years and my entire adult life. I speak very little American English unless I mean to. So WHY am I still incapable of remembering how I’m meant to pronounce oregano?
Neighbours across the road have an AirTag on their cat, which was very lucky when she snuck in past the guy painting our front door (while we were in the US…)
me every day:
In focus in the background is a small dog curled up asleep in a fluffy bed on the floor. Out of focus in the foreground is a small black and white kitten curled up asleep on my lap.
I’ve signed off work for the day but I still appear to be trapped at my desk…
At the pub quiz tonight the quizmaster briefly looked at his phone and started to give us an update, and then paused to reassure us we weren’t at war. This was somehow not all that reassuring?
I moved when I was 14 so had very rarely actually used the clicky thing, but then still had a real moment of confusion a few years later when I started fuelling in the UK. Had to double check I wasn’t missing something/having a weird memory moment and that it was just missing…
A kitten hanging onto a glass panelled door, seen through the glass. He seems to have very firm footing.
Could be a cat, could be some kind of demon.
A small leaf with kitten-teeth sized holes is held above the plant it came from, which has several suspiciously leaf-free stems.
No trouble at all…
Two kittens sitting upright on a red platform looking directly at the camera. Shadow, closer to the camera is all black with amber eyes. Silver is slightly behind and slightly out of focus, white with black splotches and amber eyes. Both are clearly completely innocent.
The kittens came home less than a week ago and are here showing that they are clearly perfect angels who would never cause any trouble.
I’m working on Christmas Eve but the Mr is braving Waitrose, so I suspect I’ve actually won in this situation…
I remember learning this for my Life in the UK test, thinking ‘I should look into that’ and then evidently immediately forgot about it entirely for the past 10 years…
I’ve not actually known all that many others tbh, but most have been one of the two. (I did know someone who was double-barrelled from her parents’ names and then dropped one to double barrel with her husband when they got married. Always wondered how that discussion went with the parents!)
We both double barrelled when we got married. (I was open to any option except for me being the only one to change my name so that’s what we settled on.) Luckily we had names that worked!
I would say not very, but then I would say that wouldn’t I? 🙃
🍇 🍊 🥑 I mean I guess I could throw in a bit of that too…
🍕 🍟 🍝 🍳 🧀 🎂 That’s all the major food groups right?!
That photo was taken shortly after we phoned the vet, because he told us that it was time.
He was my first pet as an adult, and Mr G-W’s first ever pet, and we really thought we still had years left with him. He went downhill so quickly and we weren’t ready (we never would have been ready).
Liquorice, a black cat, is on wooden stairs with his eyes closed. One paw is resting on a bare leg on the step below. A patch of fur has been shaved from that leg.
It’s just over a week since we had to say goodbye to Liquorice and everything still seems mostly terrible.
I had (loosely - we were rural and she was semi-feral) a cat named No Name as a kid. She started out as ‘that little white cat with no name’ and it gradually shortened down…
💀
I went for a row in my single the other night and I think 90% of the hour or so I was on the water I was just singing this to myself.
Aaaaaand it’s back in my head again 🫠
