cara

:P :P What? I mean, pardon? I thought there were no commas. What I meant above is that that part of my life didn't add to my understanding of English grammar or spelling, as far as I know. I've remembered something, though - in my early teens I wanted to become more familiar with the King James version, because I used to read books (eg Billy Bunter) that would use phrases from it in a humorous or a poetic way, and I wanted to be able to toss out quotes like that. Teach me, I haven't read all your posts about "life" yet, and I'm not sure what you mean about it being off-topic - sorry, there's so much to read here. Life is definitely a noun though, and "to live" is a verb - hope you're enjoying it all :P These little faces are funny so I might overdo them.

Ha, ha, very quick. Though honestly, I never thought of that part of my life as having had anything to do with my being picky about English. I might spend more time thinking about this, or I might not. :)

I hadn't heard that story before, waysider. I thought those horns were related to harvest and we were supposed to be harvesting from our sowing (but then wouldn't we have been taking from them?) - must look it up. I'm fairly sure the plural should be "cornua copiae," cornua being the plural of cornu, copiae being the genitive, for "horns of plenty," at least in the two-word standard Latin. According to the one-word usage, I don't know. Hope this doesn't come across as being too pedantic, because I know I can be that, eg, wondering why people who say they are Greek scholars use criteria/phenomena as singular nouns. Normal people who don't make those claims might never have had a reason to look the words up. Sounding more grumbly than I really am, I think. Proper use of criteria should not be a criterion for judging true love and sincerity, I tell myself! I know that to be true, as well as "who am I that i should judge."

After I'd posted that I felt like a fraud, because of course I've written checks, but I was happy when I realised that when it was between me and Him it felt better. Thanks for the welcome from the Chair, ex-c, and Twinky also on the new people thread. Hey, I remember the boxes for pennies for the Biafran babies.

Ah, maybe later, but thanks very much for the offer. I never knew about coins being a problem when I and my friends were all poor students, and when I had more money I still wanted to be as anonymous as possible, having taken that bit in Matthew to heart about doing alms in secret, and not wanting to make do with a reward from men.

Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got rhubarb in my tummy. He has an impressive voice, waysider, and maybe I did hear it on the radio. It's amazing how you find those pictures and links. Sir Guess, thanks. I know "anam cara" as a description but not any history associated with it. It's got me thinking about friendship, why I ended up keeping my own counsel so much among TWIers in the later years while I can babble to strangers. I suppose it's the same with any large group of people though, you're good friends with a few, and careful of others but able to say a lot of inconsequential things.

Thank you very much Waysider. I don't know who this Jack Handy is (not the deep thoughts?) and don't have speakers at "work" but I'll google him and I'll give it a listen at home. I actually thought of cara as a name because of its meaning "friend" in Irish but figured that if people understood it as "dear," that would be nice - wonder are they both related to caritas. Thanks again! Hope I can get some rhubarb pie and a regular regular coffee next time. Oh, I'm an idiot - it's jay and the Americans (still don't know them). Bye again.

I've been reading and reading and still have a lot to read but wanted to say hello. You are all lovely people! I also have to get used to the furniture - I thought the status report would be under or would be my name - and find a picture. The photos of bluebells or of cliffs by the sea that I was thinking of are too big. I remember/recognize/know a lot whereof you speak but am horrified at the extent of some of the things I knew a little or nothing about. I wish rest to you who are troubled. And some of the posts I've read have just made me laugh. Thanks for letting me sit down for a bit!