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Born Wimbledon... Ex-lorry driver... Moved from UK to France 2002... Now teaching English ESL (TEFL Qualified)... DELF B1... 300/600 points towards my OU Degree... I registered with Uclick in 1997...

Recent Comments

  1. 43 minutes ago on Monty

    the Brit “Top of the Pops”

    The British Broadcasting Company (Nothing called Brit Broadcasting Company) Top of the Pops and Independent Television’s (ITV) Ready Steady Go.

    We didn’t have the internet then. Anything not on BBC or ITV, didn’t exist…

  2. about 1 hour ago on Monty

    this is the first time you’ve encountered the name of this national holiday/internationally

    We’ve a similar Bank Holiday, but ours is called New Years Day. So, no, I’ve never encountered it.

  3. about 1 hour ago on Monty

    is the rock you reside under located in the Milky Way solar system?

    I could rattle off a couple dozen celebrity names, that you’d never heard of either, requiring a Google search (or Ask Jeeves), but what would the point be? I would consider it less insulting to your intellect. Better to use names most readers would recognise, rather, in our opinion, totally obscure, possibly even fictitious names…

  4. about 1 hour ago on The Born Loser

    Être = to be

    Avoir = to have

    Faire = to make or do

    Aller = to go

    Je = I

    Tu = you (2nd person, singular)

    Il, elle = he, she, it

    Nous = we

    Vous = you (2nd person, plural)

    Ils, elles = they

  5. about 5 hours ago on Monty

    Been in my neighbourhood for over 72 years… Your spelling of neighbourhood leads me to suspect that you’re my neighbourhood too…

  6. about 5 hours ago on Monty

    Never heard of anyone of them…

  7. about 5 hours ago on Monty

    Monty Python ?

  8. about 6 hours ago on Loose Parts

    Shaun is woollier…

  9. about 7 hours ago on Monty

    I guessed that old friend. Hence my “educated” comment…

  10. about 7 hours ago on Loose Parts

    You meant “Shaun the Sheep”, but I understood and agree…