So this is Manchester

[enismirdal]

Well, I'm here. My old room is much as I left it, only tidier. girlofthemirror is millions of miles away in the distant South of England :(

Guinea pigs appear to have forgotten who I am, but did not object to the piles of grass I brought.

My brother has diagnosed my computer as 'a mess' and 'very sick', then crashed it a few times for me. Then he showed me his one, with its cordless optical wheel mouse and God-only-knows-what-else.

The pond is full of 1. frogspawn and 2. duck weed.

The lawn appears to be mainly moss.

There is a washing machine in the back garden (help! I feel like I'm living in Moss Side!!) - the new one looks quite snazzy.

Apparently there is a general consensus that Eni is extremely bad at packing. As I see it, putting things into thousands od miscellaneous Tesco and Sainsbury's carrier bags is a perfectly logical way to pack - no giant heavy cases that way. I don't get how girlofthemirror managed to fit all her uni stuff into 4 cases. *shakes head in utter bewilderment*

Hurry up March 29th!!

Comments

[girlofthemirror.livejournal.com]

Missing you too honey. Hope they are not all canibles that far north. My cat forgot who I was too. Then remebered that I was the one who sat still... so was good for sitting on. Feels a million miles aaway from Cambridge here. See you soon, on two weeks in fact.

[i-eat-bibles.livejournal.com]

I would just like to tell you that us northerners are not canibles, but I wouldn't trust a southener as far as I could throw them!

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I've met some people here who I've definitely suspected of being cannibals... :)

I wouldn't trust a southener as far as I could throw them!
Most southerners, I wouldn't even trust that far! But I'll make an exception in this case, even if she hasn't got the hang of saying, "Oh, aye?" properly yet!!

[i-eat-bibles.livejournal.com]

Oh Aye?
Isnt it strange that even though down south is not all that far away we have such prejudices and a completly different dialect.
My sister knows someone at uni who had no idea what a chip buttie was (she was a southener too!)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

It's so true! 'Scally' is a completely meaningless word to anyone south of Nottingham! And I once had to define 'mosher' to a guy in Doncaster.

They say there's more regional variation in British dialects than there is between the Spanish spoken in Spain and Argentina :)

[gyre.livejournal.com]

When people complain about how American's butchered English, I am quick to point out that the English have done a better job of that than anybody.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Was that you who texted me at about lunchtime today? Sorry - I can hardly work my phone, so I'm really bad at figuring these things out...

[gyre.livejournal.com]

Yes I did :)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Yay! *feels clever for figuring it out*

[gyre.livejournal.com]

My guess was that you would not be back until 4pm at the earliest. You did pretty well.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

It wasn't bad - we left almost dead on noon, and despite taking a wrong turning up the A1(M) before Kettering and beung forced by a road closure to take a scenic tour through the Lymm countryside, we were back around half three. So really not bad at all.