more progress!

raelou · Post by **raelou** » Fri May 25, 2007 5:44 pm

.....You can tell you're not english

WW :tea as in cup of it or food,Or am I assuming too much and sticking my nose in

Serinde · Post by **Serinde** » Fri May 25, 2007 6:19 pm

Ah, C_F, don't be

Tea is one of those peculiar words in English English (or Scottish English, come to that). It usually refers to a meal: so, coming to tea might mean coming over and having a cuppa something hot with a little something to help it be not quite so wet. More usually, 'what's for tea' means what's for supper or (in some places) dinner. There are even those sort of types who make class and status judgements on how these very words are used (not me, of course).

Ain't language grand

coffee_freak · Post by **coffee_freak** » Fri May 25, 2007 6:22 pm

hahaha i thought you actually meant tea..
well in that case..
in the way you are meaning it..
i'm cooking a low carb lasagna, big salad and low carb peanut butter cookies for me.
my daughter is with her dad tonight, my husband works late so he's cooking for himself (probably something korean)

raelou · Post by **raelou** » Fri May 25, 2007 6:53 pm

Sorry C_F wasn't poking fun,I just love the way things differ in the english language like Serinde said, even over here!! tea to me is afternoon food,whereas others may call it dinner,

come 'n' hav a cuppa, chuck

save me some peanut butter cookies my fav

coffee_freak · Post by **coffee_freak** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:48 pm

i wasn't offended!! i love learning about other countries slang..it's fun!

raelou · Post by **raelou** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:56 pm

Serinde wrote:Christmas Oh, help!

Exactly

I hadn't thought of it yet!
If I want to make all my xmas cards this year I'd better get started

C_F - I always worry I have offended people,So i am very glad

that I haven't

Ekidna · Post by **Ekidna** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:00 pm

The whole tea, dinner etc thing gets very confusing in my house as I call the evening meal Tea, the middle meal lunch or dinner and breakfast is just breakfats. But of course DH is English, so we often get each other confused on this issue!!

The Caramel Chai sounds lurvly!! I have a vanilla Chai and about 6 different herbal teas, as well as the ol Yorkshire tea!!

Me too, if ASDA did fabric I'd be more interested in doing the grocery shopping each week!!

Mind, I'm feeling quite happy with myself as I've bought about 20mtrs in total of fabric on ebay for about Â£25 in total.

I'm making 2 summer dresses, a summer skirt, a cord skirt, cord trouser/jeans, 2 little babydoll style satiny tops a coat and a jacket!!

I need 3 of them in 6 weeks so I have to get a wriggle on!!

coffee_freak · Post by **coffee_freak** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:25 pm

you sound like you have a lot of projects!!
I need to just jump into sewing clothes. I really want to make some cute pants and shorts for my son..before he gets too old.
and maybe some cute skirts for my daughter and for me!

Ekidna · Post by **Ekidna** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:30 pm

There are some really great patterns out these days, really easy to follow. If you can cross stitch I don't think you'll have any worries. It doesn't even take as long as cross stitch!!

raelou · Post by **raelou** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:33 pm

I wish I could make clothes,I have a sewing machine but I have only used it twice

( I kept on at DH that I wanted one) So I would love to see the pics of the finished items
I do know what you mean about taking on too much,I have a few wip's now and six books I need to read as I need to return them

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I have tried herbal tea, but I must admit I prefer my PG Tips,with milk and two sugars

I have joined a SAL that I must keep up with, have a pic in gallery

coffee_freak · Post by **coffee_freak** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:56 am

eeek! remember when I was talking about the joan elliot rose lady I wanted to stitch!?!?!
you have already finished it!

wendywombat · Post by **wendywombat** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:10 am

OK back to the Tea! I never thought that tea was slang for a meal! I meant dinner/supper or food generally. So Sorry C_F

The Lasagne sounded great, sorry I missed it! We had Poulet Basquaise or Chicken Basque and it was Yummy. I love flavoured teas. The French have every flavour for every occasion so you would be spoiled for choice here.

Ekidna · Post by **Ekidna** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:47 pm

Oooh, sounds yummy WW!

Six books!

That's gonna be tough!

I've just Staying At Daisy's by Jill Mansell, I think. My best friend lent it to me when I wasn't well enough to do my cross stitch but was going a bit mad doing not alot. It was relly good though, very funny!

What books are you reading, Raelou?

whiskers12 · Post by **whiskers12** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:21 pm

Ekidna wrote:The whole tea, dinner etc thing gets very confusing in my house as I call the evening meal Tea, the middle meal lunch or dinner and breakfast is just breakfats. But of course DH is English, so we often get each other confused on this issue!!

Hehe, we are much the same. We call dinner either 'dinner' or 'tea'. Generally if someone wants the actual beverage, it's called a 'cuppa' or a 'cuppa tea'.

I guess we all have some sort of language barriers...words getting lost in translation. Don't Americans call milk 'cream' and jam 'jelly' and jelly 'jello', etc? That gets me confused. :S

raelou · Post by **raelou** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:42 pm

Wendy I really enjoyed doing that lady,made me want to do the others

Sarah Well seen as you asked,

the library books I have yet to read are:

The secret of crickley hall/James Herbert
Brown owls guide to life/Kate Harrison
The gospel according to Chris Moyles
Welcome to the real world/Carole Matthews
Divided loyalties/Patricia Scanlan
Yours Faithfully/Sheila O'flanagan( my DH bought this for B'day so library one going back unread)
Also have waiting to be read:
Anybody out there/Marian Keyes
Birmingham Blitz/Annie Murray
Family of women/Annie Murray
Serpent's tooth/Faye Kellerman
And I have finished Jupiter's bones/Faye Kellerman this morning
I have also bought today from the charity shop The lord of the rings (fellowship)You know who wrote that

Ekidna · Post by **Ekidna** » Sat May 26, 2007 6:20 pm

You have a very big list there Raelou!! Feeling optimistic!