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  1. For some reason when opening a site from my desktop shortcut they now come up as a small window (which I thren have to maximize it) rather that the full page. Any ideas how to change it back? I've been through the tools and internet options with no luck. Thanks as always guys.
  2. [quote user="cooperlola"] Yes, this has been an interesting discussion, Richard, I agree.  I'm also glad to see that Redkite is now a convert.  Way back on page 4 s/he told me that my husband and animals (those in the world I really love) did not constitute my  home, but it was where I was raised (that could be Lancashire (one of 3 houses), Yorkshire (one of 3 houses) Malta (one of 2 flats) or Sussex (1 flat)).  Now it's good to see, RK, that you concede that as my little fermette in the Sarthe, where the one I love is, is home.[:)] [/quote] Did I say that? And it's he :-)
  3. Talk about teaching your granny to suck eggs - my daughter posted this on her facebook page this morning not being aware of these discussions. 'When you are with the one you love, anywhere is home' Pretty good eh?
  4. [quote user="tegwini"][quote user="redkite"]Tegwini, read my post. That's not what I said. I said they had 'an attachment'. The same way as the US has 'an attachment' to the UK, and New York has 'an attachment' to the Irish.[/quote] Yes you originally said they had an 'attachement' (sic) but they didn't have even that, and since many of them were not even from Holland they did not, and the decades, and centuries went by and any relationship - or whatever vanished. Tegwini [/quote] I'm no historian Tegwini and certainly have little interest in a people that adopted and promoted racial superiority and slavery but, I did read somewhere of Dutch proposals to mediate between Britain and the Boers and that was what, a nudge over 100 years ago which would suggest....?
  5. I always remember my sister (who has lived in France for over 40 years) telling me that in her experience the French do not 'do cosy'- meaning that they have a more utilitarian view of the home - unlike the Brits, who tend to make their houses more warm, comfortable and welcoming. Mind you, you'd have to go to the ends of the earth to find any word better for the longing of home than the Welsh 'Hiraeth' which no translation can do ever do justice.
  6. Tegwini, read my post. That's not what I said. I said they had 'an attachment'. The same way as the US has 'an attachment' to the UK, and New York has 'an attachment' to the Irish.
  7. [quote user="tegwini"][quote user="redkite"].  By the way, my dictionary defines Boer as a decendant of any of the Dutch or Heguenot colonists who settled in SA. Now, I wonder where such names as The Orange Free State, Bloemfonten, Kiersdorp and Vereeniging Kopanong came from? Hmm. [/quote] A dictionary is NOT the place to understand hundreds of years of history. The most famous Boer president was Kruger, a German name perhaps ?  and  other names such as du Plessis, du Toit, Joubert, de Villiers, Cronje, Blignaut,  Malherbe and the famous Malan or  de Klerk are Huguenot  names.  They came from France not Holland. Strange so many are not Dutch names - I wonder why not?  Even in the language, which I can speak, there are some 'French' sounding words, and although Afrikaans seems similar to Dutch - the Dutch would disagree. Plenty of place names in SA that are not Dutch - quite a few are English - how about Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, George,                        KingWilliamstown etc.  Place names  in England some are also a bit strange, some originating with the Angles, Saxons and Vikings. It's really complicated. And to get back on thread  the Boers had little loyalty - or interest in Holland after about the 1780s. Tegwini [/quote] And the Dutch word for farmer is?
  8. Just to bring this back on course.... having spent many years travelling around France supplying services to Brits, do you know what the most common reason held (repeated ad nauseam) for leaving the UK? That it was full of blacks, asians and other immigrants. Maybe it is getting that way, but I did make the mistake once of pointing out to a client he was also an immigrant - he was not a happy bunny.
  9. [quote user="Maricopa"][quote user="Richard"]As for Brits talking French to one another, I would say in public, say a bar, that is a more polite thing to do. [/quote] I remember, not too long after we moved over here, we were shopping in a supermarket and talking English to each other.  A French woman, who we didn't know, asked (in English) if we could speak French.  Yes, we said (in French), so she asked why we weren't speaking French (in French). Whilst even now, we still speak English to each other in the supermarket, the above does back up Richard's point. [/quote] Try telling that to an Asian in the UK or even better, a Hong King Chinese in a takeaway - he'd spit on your fried rice and hand it over with a smile on his face. But hey, the French can get away with it - a bit like us getting away from definitions of 'home'
  10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8345944.stm What a tragedy, so much for assimilation
  11. In a nutshell Mel and perfectly put. It sums all I've been trying to say.
  12. Hold it there Richard. I've had French bacon and it's rubbish - usually thin, round and salty and as far their sausages go they put more crap in them than the Brits do - the contents of which is known in the trade as slurry, hosed down from the animals carcass.... which is why I always get my bacon from our local UK butcher.
  13. Really buelligan? I dont thinks so. Many immigrants to the UK remain locked to their home culture - you only have to read the papers about 'forced' marriages and it is a fact that many Asian males prefer brides from home rather those girls emanciapted through British culture. And you know what really gets up my nose? It's those Brits in France that insist on speaking French to fellow Brits! What's that all about?
  14. I just wonder if there is some sort of bias towards such claims as 'living in France and it being home'. Not surprising I suppose but some protest to much methinks. By the way, my dictionary defines Boer as a decendant of any of the Dutch or Heguenot colonists who settled in SA. Now, I wonder where such names as The Orange Free State, Bloemfonten, Kiersdorp and Vereeniging Kopanong came from? Hmm. And, I bet there are a lot of you that long for as I do, a bit of the old egg, bacon n sausage in the morning! Yum yum.
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