long ride, woot!

[winterbadger]

Beautiful day for a bike ride! 9.8 miles, from Prosperity down to Lake Accotink Park and back. More later.

Comments

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Wow! Impressive!

[winterbadger]

And what was cool about it was that, while the last mile or two were a little tiring, it didn't seem like that much of a stretch. I was tired afterwards, but no exhausted.

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't that be: "but nae exhausted"?

Gotta practice the dialect ;)

[winterbadger]

Ah've spent yearz readin' George MacDonald Fraser and listenin' tae Billy Connolly, Robbie Coltrane, John Hannah (*sigh*), Ian Bannen, Bill Paterson, Robert Carlyle and, for the matter of that, Annette Crosbie and Maggie Smith (who is a Sassennach from Essex, but does a good imitation of a hoity-toity school marm from Auld Reekie--and I don't mean Professor McGonigle). I honestly think I could fool a native Glaswegian for, oh, at least five minutes (he'd think I was an incomer frae Stirlin' :-) But one of my deepest fears is that after six weeks I'll start acquiring a bit of a lilt, and then anyone I meet will think I'm "putting it on" and apeing the locals. I'm enough of an *Anglo*phile to know that everyone has their place :-) and that as an American mine is somewhere between the kerb and an Australian ;-)

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

"kerb and an Austrailian" you are hysterical! Actually, I was told that we Americans are as good as Scots, and are in fact almost the same country. They still seem to like that fact that we KICKED THE BRITS ASSES ;)

Ok, you said Sassennach. If you tell me you are a fan of the Outlander series, I may just melt.

[winterbadger]

Are you suggesting I might be Jaimie to your Claire? ;-)

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Good Lord, that statement actually made me BLUSH. I'm such a geek!

(Only if you can chop wood while quoting Marcus Aurelius in latin)

;)

[winterbadger]

I can chop wood (I've split about half an oak tree that we had to take down), and I can quote a few Latin tags, plus the begining of the Aeneid. Does that count? :-)

"Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primas ab oris...'

I sing of the arms and of the man who, first from Trojan shores...

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

It only counts if you can do it at the same time ;)

[winterbadger]

Mel Gibson must (sadly) count twice, as an American who pretands to be an Australian and pretends to be Scottish (in Braveheart), kicking English butt (in BH and the Patriot) wherever he goes...

I always hoped the director's cut of The Patriot would feature an alternate ending, when Mel Gibson is captured, drawn and quartered *again*, and Tom Wilkinson watches as he is burned at the stake (or something). Guaranteed to sell thousands of copies in the UK and to British reanactors in the US. :-)

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Don't make me burst out laughing! I'm in the library!

Well, its the fine arts library, maybe I can get away with it...

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Oooh! That icon looks really good on your page!

[winterbadger]

Gallia est omnis divisa *whack* in partes tres *whack* quarum unam incolunt Belgae, *whack* aliam Aquitani, *whack* tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, *whack* nostra Galli appellantur. *rests on axe*

[winterbadger]

Je suis un soldat d'Angleterre, main avec un coeur d'Ecosse.

[winterbadger]

BTW, that icon is the definition of The Look. ;-) ("Oh, puhleeze." aka "Yeah, right." ;-)

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Impressive... hmmm...

(Impressed with myself too, I actually understand that passage).

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

I'm more of a "Whatever" person, I hate to admit.

Consider it an "I dare you" look ;)

[winterbadger]

BTW, I adore that you are such a geek. I could only fall in love with a geek. :-)

[winterbadger]

Ah, but dare me to what? ;-)

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Quelle surprise...

Un Ecosse qui parle francais...

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Actually, I prefer the term "bluestocking".

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

That will have to wait until the chopping and the quoting commences ;)

[winterbadger]

I am also impressed. I admit freely that I had to look up the second half (OK, De Bello Gallico was *over TWENTY-FIVE years ago*...)

[winterbadger]

Ah, Harriet...

(Bunter, could you lay a fire in the drawing room?)

[winterbadger]

C'est un [consequence] de la alliance vielle...

[winterbadger]

:-)

Let me just figure out which airline will let me bring a few wild boar and a menhir or two with me, and I'll be out directly...

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

C'est vraiment...

De la rose et le crux?

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Ha!

[winterbadger]

Eh, de la rose et le croix, peut etre, mais j'ai pense de l'Ecosse et la France. Que dans l'Ecosse ils appelannt "the Auld Alliance".

[winterbadger]

Keep this up, you know, and I'm going to be moving over by winter, just so I can spend Hogmany with you and occupy myself making you baked beans on toast in the morning and having your tea ready in the afternoon when you're done with your lectures. :-)

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

I have clearly exhausted my command of French at this point, especially since I've said crux and not croix, as I should have known.

But again, impressive ;)

(Good to know I can still read it, though).

Oh, and...

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Check your mail :)

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Tea sounds lovely...

I don't do the beans on toast though... I'm a "parrich" girl.

[winterbadger]

Duly noted. :-)

[sun-in-splendor.livejournal.com]

Congrats. Sounds like a good day out.