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Post by auntieannie on Oct 29, 2023 18:57:31 GMT 2
me happy, Slowcoach's getting better.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 29, 2023 19:41:10 GMT 2
hello, slow! continue w your recovery!
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Post by slowcoach on Nov 15, 2023 15:07:34 GMT 2
Thanks!
Back to some semblance of participation albeit somewhat limited in scope.
I demand a recount!
I may try and recount something of all or some of the following
New Dog Laws in Spain Little Missy Dog Large Wandering Mastín Olive Harvest Migrating Refrigerators Electricity Crazy Weather
Resurrecting Memories including Overcrowding & Miniature Violins Early School or more simply School Specific Learning Difficulties Being Distinctly Uneven Some Blondes, Brothers, Redheads, Uncles, & World Class Brutes
Lying Down a lot Practising Motions: Bumps and Hoopless Hula-Hooping
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Post by slowcoach on Nov 15, 2023 15:14:50 GMT 2
But to begin:
The Distant Relative:
My wife's Polish born, Anglo-Ukrainian granddaughter has a step-brother who was badly injured when his vehicle was hit whilst they were redeploying to the Donbass after the Battle for Kyiv. His immediate family, mother, grandmother departed Warsaw for a hospital in Kyiv where they were treating him. He was comatose, had serious injuries to his core, and a favourable outcome was in doubt.
He recovered, and after some rest, resumed his journey to the Donbass.
In October news arrived that he was again injured and hospitalised. Described as concussion without further explanation, it seemed likely that it was a percussive injury as there was no report of penetration injuries.
Once again mother, grandmother, now with his half sister in tow, departed by coach to Lviv and then by coach to Sloviansk leaving half sister presumably with her half mother in law.
Sloviansk is about 20 km from Bakhmut. so close to the fighting which is a worry but it has not recently been subject serious attack. We, from our safe and protected distance, presumed that he was in hospital there. We presumed wrong.
The story goes that officer in charge was surprised to see relatives turn up as you don't get many civilians venturing so far from civilisation.
But all was well. It was agreed that he could be handed over and was given exceptional leave to travel outside of Ukraine spending a week in Warsaw before returning to Lviv to stay with his wife for another week.
So mother and grandmother departed front line medical unit with son in tow. What babusya wants babusya gets.
Except that he is once again returned to the Donbass. Fighting in that sector remains fierce and extensive.
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 15, 2023 15:17:46 GMT 2
Glad to have you back, Slow. It is a sad tale about your wife's granddaughter's stepbrother. And complicated.
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Post by Voy on Nov 15, 2023 16:55:38 GMT 2
well, that covers some of the relatives... we await coverage of Slow ! and it sure is good to see you !!
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 15, 2023 18:08:40 GMT 2
same same.
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Post by slowcoach on Nov 19, 2023 15:05:07 GMT 2
... this aging business is worth grumbling about at times! Now that it can be largely seen in retrospect it is likely an overly dramatic recrudescence from an injury from long ago. It has previously shown up as a sensitivity at my right iliac crest, or hip pain, or right hip/leg neuralgia, at various times over the decades. But being, if not unable, at least unwilling, to move in the slightest was a novel presentation. Painful but in its own way quite fascinating, certainly not at all boring.
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Post by sophie on Nov 19, 2023 16:30:18 GMT 2
Novel presentation… that’s a novel way to regard a cranky hip joint!
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 19, 2023 18:28:01 GMT 2
Glad you are watching it in the rear view mirror as it drops behind.
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 19, 2023 19:22:48 GMT 2
Careful, if you don’t use it, you lose it. Find the right exercises to keep the joints in working condition.
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 9, 2024 10:29:24 GMT 2
In the face of a complete lack of popular demand I will recount an illustration of a specific learning difficulty. I believe that that is the correct term for some types of mental screw ups.
Many moons ago, an early slow was sharing home with rather more family members than is the norm these days at least, in total ten others.
This leads to inevitable conflicts over resources, particularly the bathroom/toilet, particularly weekday mornings.
So there I was, having a pee, in the company of my late teenage cousin, about ten years my senior, who was bathing her two daughters, when the elder of the pair asked her mother a question.
(As I have said elsewhere, I struggle to turn sound into language. There is a stage when sounds, sometimes quite dissimilar ones are mapped to a snippet of language. For instance both the voiced and unvoiced variants are mapped successfully to "TH" even though the listener may not have noticed that this variation exists. And vowels are correctly mapped despite many strikingly different regional dialectic variants. I lack that type of fluency.)
I failed to understand what my little cousin once removed had said, for my best guess made little or no sense. I have kept the sounds she made alive in my memory for all these years and play them back from time to time. This playing back is something I do a lot, I always have. People say something to me, I hear sounds, sometimes all the words, but commonly one our more word will be missing so I replay the sounds to give it another go, if all else fails I may ask the speaker to repeat themselves.
Not long ago, I finally made the jump from her sounds to the critical word, and I laughed out loud.
I had thought what she said had sounded like:
"Mummy, why has he got a towel", when in truth she was querying her acute observation by saying "Mummy, why has he got a tail".
The linguists amongst you may recognise the etymological clarity of her thinking for we have pēnītus (furnished with a tail), as a likely origin for penis.
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Post by OnlyMark on Feb 9, 2024 11:15:32 GMT 2
I have kept the sounds she made alive in my memory for all these years and play them back from time to time. This playing back is something I do a lot, I always have. People say something to me, I hear sounds, sometimes all the words, but commonly one our more word will be missing so I replay the sounds to give it another go, if all else fails I may ask the speaker to repeat themselves. However, as things often balance out, I bet a music memory is a skill you have that is better than other people's.
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