| Dogs and Bells [message #51047] |
Sun, 29 July 2012 21:27  |
 b_twin_1
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Dogs and Bells
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Dogs and Bells [message #51050 is a reply to message #51047 ] |
Sun, 29 July 2012 21:56  |
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Angelia
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† I said to Nice Man that my tendency to take three steps forward and two point nine nine nine steps back was discouraging, and he said that he’s been ringing thirty years and he can remember entire seasons when he was taking three steps forward and four or five steps back. He is a Nice Man.
He IS a nice man, but I would also venture to say, he is also a truthful man! Anyone who has done anything that includes learning and then performing the learned material has been through this . . . knitting (I get good [for me] when I'm doing it all the time, though there is usually a HUGE cockup somewhere); teaching (sometimes you walk out after a class and wonder, "What in the h**l was that?!), etc. We're human. (My cats tell me they NEVER make mistakes, but I'm not a cat, so I don't aspire to perfection!)
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| Re: Dogs and Bells [message #51052 is a reply to message #51047 ] |
Mon, 30 July 2012 00:08 |
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Diane in MN
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Yesterday and today we’ve had several more interesting encounters with other dogs and hellhounds have not reacted so they haven’t morphed into little paranoia machines at least—at least not yet.
My guess would be that they would not do so, especially at their age. I think it's very likely that they might decide that certain dogs--like the one that stalked you into town--demand a certain response, especially since *your* response travels right down the lead to them, but I'd be surprised if they generalized that to all dogs or even to all unknown dogs.
Scary Man—Scary Man! Who, while a really good teacher and minder who seems to know where you are before you do is not exactly notorious for patience and kindness to the mentally afflicted and the physically inept—said no, no, I’ll take the treble, you ring the two and I’ll shout at you.
He's a teacher. Clearly you're now his student. Easy deal, right? 
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Dogs and Bells [message #51054 is a reply to message #51049 ] |
Mon, 30 July 2012 02:56 |
b_twin_1
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| Audrey Falconer wrote on Sun, 29 July 2012 21:41 |
so I am off to one of the larger towers in town. Will be interesting. More bells. And they're hung anti-clockwise.
I'm terrified! I only dare go at all because their tower captain visited during service a couple of months ago and cordially assured me that I'd be welcome there any time.
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Hehe. Have fun! It's not that bad (says she who only rang call changes there). But I wonder if they have a proper rope on the treble now... they were experimenting last year... *g*
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Dogs and Bells [message #51055 is a reply to message #51047 ] |
Mon, 30 July 2012 05:44 |
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Catherine
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So pleased that the hellhounds are continuing to be their lovely selves! So annoyed by people who don't understand that a dog being friendly isn't enough, it needs manners, too.
Chloe and I got followed by a dog that wasn't merely off-lead but unattended this morning. Little, brown terrier-type wandering down the pavement, along a busy road, at us. I picked Chloe up immediately but it had twigged her and proceeded to follow us. It seemed friendly and pleased to see a human-with-a-dog, but it had no collar and I take no chances. So, I shut it up in the enclosed carpark of the Gospel Chapel and phoned the non-emergency police number to let someone know it was there. Chloe, at that point, decided her walk was ruined and she wanted to go home. Eventually the police phoned back, by which time I was nearly to work, to say the dog warden declined to collect it because it was unattended. Which I felt defeated the point of the entire charade.
The bit about you being taken for Australian is hilarious. I'm always entertained by what people guess my neither-here-nor-there accent to be.
I don't think the Abbey will show you the door, I get the impression they will keep drawing you in...
Cath
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| Re: Dogs and Bells [message #51056 is a reply to message #51047 ] |
Mon, 30 July 2012 05:51 |
Katsheare
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We saw this one at the far end of a long corridor of footpath. I cranked hellhounds in and we stopped, which some owners recognise as a request to put that damn dog on a lead.
I'm amazed that we don't run into more dogs on our walks. Granted, our family generally only goes out once a week, but we go out on Sundays, which I would think ought to be prime time for lackluster owners to take their pets out. Not complaining, though. We have a small-for-his-age nearly two-year-old who walks with us, and I do mean walks and most dogs are considerably bigger than he is. Maybe you need to start taking a small child with you. Insert hysterical laughter here.
Congratulations on going back to the Abbey. It's not easy, nor is it mandatory, but I think it showed them that you actually are serious, even if you do have, ahm, wonky days. And now you have a month to recover. Or something.
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| Re: Dogs and Bells [message #51065 is a reply to message #51064 ] |
Mon, 30 July 2012 19:54 |
b_twin_1
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| Mockorange wrote on Mon, 30 July 2012 18:38 |
I'm rather amused about the Australian thing because I am the world's worst judge of accents.
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as I was walking away I heard one of them say to another, she’s not English. No, said another of the group, she’s Australian. —I love this. I totally do not sound Australian.
SNORK.
I've noticed a few South African accents (for "Australian" characters) on US movies/TV.
Of course, a lot of other countries can't pick the difference between Australia/New Zealand.
I'm inclined to subconsciously mimic accents... So after 3-4 weeks in the UK... (I did that in Germany too. Not so much in Canada.)
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Dogs and Bells [message #51071 is a reply to message #51065 ] |
Tue, 31 July 2012 03:13 |
Katsheare
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| b_twin_1 wrote on Tue, 31 July 2012 00:54 |
I'm inclined to subconsciously mimic accents... So after 3-4 weeks in the UK... (I did that in Germany too. Not so much in Canada.)
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Whereas all of my States-side friends are disappointed to discover that I haven't developed a British accent. Which has taken effort. I'm much worse when I'm in the States. I pick up dialect like a black wool skirt picks up everything.
I had an Essex-born boss who had been about 4 years in Paris then got a Masters in Kentucky. His accent was... interesting.
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