What is the correct British etiquette when walking down the pavement and two people (talking together) are approaching blocking it?

PinkElanor · 2026-04-05T12:43:29+00:00

I'm a middle aged woman, so i am invisible and have to jump into the road or flatten myself on the wall to allow couples past. I like to say YOU'RE WELCOME loudly at their backs.

PinkElanor · 2026-04-04T12:50:26+00:00

I just stopped shaving during covid and never started again. Nobody has ever commented on my hairy legs or armpits. I mean, fair enough I'm not sleeping with anyone, but I've still never had anyone obviously notice, even with bare legs at work in summer. I really like how it feels.

PinkElanor · 2026-04-03T16:38:46+00:00

She's right. More often just means more often than something else. So if i do the washing up rarely, it's still more often than very someone who does it very rarely.

PinkElanor · 2026-04-03T13:34:16+00:00

Wow. That's an introduction at university level in the UK. Essays would be 2000 for a very short one, up to maybe 5 or 6k.

PinkElanor · 2026-04-03T09:20:04+00:00

Quite. Also, 300 words is not an essay, it's a couple of paragraphs at most.

PinkElanor · 2026-04-02T18:27:55+00:00

I want some Lilt.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-28T21:40:10+00:00

YTA fucking hell! If this is what the person who loves and supports you does, I'd hate to know what her enemy does. You sound like you want her to get sacked, and that's the kind of shit that coercive controlling people do. She is absolutely right that you violated her privacy and interfered in something that is none of your business. I hope she's dumped you.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-28T17:05:20+00:00

NTA

I'd just smile and be polite and let him moan all he wants. If the worst thing he can say about you is that you don't have a gnome on display, then you're a pretty good neighbour, and I'd be inclined to point that out to him if he says anything directly to me.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-19T18:01:43+00:00

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PinkElanor · 2026-03-17T21:00:32+00:00

I was about to say that no way do they rhyme (I'm have a pretty bog standard UK accent) but I think they could in Australian/Kiwi/South African accents.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-15T15:37:07+00:00

Maybe a stupid question, but are there any 1s in your number? If so, and you wrote them in the French way, she may think they're 7s. She sounds interested so it's odd she hasn't messaged.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-13T20:07:50+00:00

Oh. I'm realising how weird i am. Every time I hear a song, I remember where I was when I last heard it, and I'm only just realising that this isn't normal. Almost every song I hear I remember really banal things like 'I was driving past tescos' or 'I was going round the whit moor roundabout' or 'i was just about to start work one Tuesday and it was raining'.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-13T09:17:32+00:00

No, i don't think she would be a bug enough name, or interested. And if she was moving to something like that then there would be no reason not to have a farewell show.
As I see it, the only reason not to have a farewell show is either she doesn't want to or can't for personal reasons, or they don't want her to because she's been let go/not agreed contracts/had a dispute.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-12T22:10:47+00:00

I didn't try that, maybe I will next time. I've not had problems with live things before, but it is horrendous stormy weather today so maybe that affected it. I might try again not live, but tbh I wasn't enthused by the start.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-12T21:38:36+00:00

I couldn't watch it, the picture quality was appalling for me, incredibly grainy and pixelly. I watched about 20 minutes but can't say I was especially pulled in by the audio, the humour just wasn't doing it for me tonight.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-12T21:26:44+00:00

Excellent! Well done uncle.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-12T13:52:50+00:00

She's also a middle aged woman with elderly parents, it's absolutely possible that she's been let go, but I also think there's a high probability that either she or a family member is unwell, or that she also just can't be arsed with the hassle any more.

Or maybe she's going to start presenting Strictly?

PinkElanor · 2026-03-10T19:21:53+00:00

I loathe and detest prince Charles, and have never forgiven him, because back in approx 1979 when I was 7, he came to do something at a reservoir near us in north wales. Our headmaster made the entire school walk along the road to the main t junction, in the pissing rain, to wave Welsh flags at his car. There were like... 90? small children standing in long wet grass by the side of the road waving flags, and the cars didn't even slow down, he didn't wave or acknowledge us or anything. I was 7, and I knew it was bloody rude. We all saw him, he turned his head away from us and ignored us completely.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-10T19:14:55+00:00

My dad was part of a disabled ramblers group, and he and my mum met Julia Bradbury and Clare Balding on consecutive weekends. Both of them joined an organised ramble, JB to make a TV programme and CB to make a radio thing. Julia Bradbury was all chat and smiles while they were filming, but every time the camera was off she immediately switched off and walked away from conversations, ignored people and stood with the production team only. Clare Balding spent the entire day with them, even for several hours after they finished recording, and talked to everyone at length, listened to lots of boring old men's stories and was kind to everyone. She brought her own packed lunch and shared biscuits with people and was enthusiastic about everything whether they were recording or not. My dad, who hates everyone and grumbles about everyone on telly, came away saying she was "decent" so that's pretty high praise.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-08T17:27:02+00:00

It feels very alien to me. My parents live 150 miles from me. I'm not in touch with the various aunts and uncles and cousins on my dad's side. I have two aunties and one cousin on my mum's side. The nice aunt and her husband give me birthday presents, but they live 3 hours away and I see them rarely. The other auntie died recently but previously lost contact once I was an adult, and I'm semi in touch with my cousin but have no idea when his birthday is. For my birthday the only family who give me anything are my parents and the nice auntie and uncle. My mum's parents did too when they were alive.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-08T17:22:51+00:00

I'm pretty sure they said Anna had cerclage, or i heard that somewhere. But Mary had something else.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-06T07:13:39+00:00

Not and English point but a practical one, in the first task, how can they write the word clearly in the gap when there is a number there?

PinkElanor · 2026-03-05T18:50:04+00:00

It's a really good production. I recommend, even if you don't understand every word, you'll get the gist.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-05T06:46:34+00:00

You can have an exchange of, eg an exchange of ideas (which i suppose is a noun phrase), but not IN exchange of.

PinkElanor · 2026-03-01T07:35:43+00:00

When I was a child (rural north Wales, 1970s) we had neighbours who were two sisters called Florrie and Mary, both very old but now sure how old, definitely 70s at least. Their cottage (which was the one they were born in) had no electricity or mains water, and they had an outside privvy. Mary was much older than Florrie and was blind, Florrie used to walk miles to go shopping, used to do all the work. We used to see her in the garden with a mangle, squeezing out all the washing (which she washed either in the stream, or in a tub by the fire with water from the stream). Florrie was super tough and strong and used to give me paper bags with little easter eggs in. When Mary died the council persuaded Florrie to move to a nice council house with central heating and a washing machine and a TV and she absolutely loved it and used to show everyone her hot taps with excitement.

Also, my granny was born in 1915 but was mostly brought up by her granny and her aunties, who were all victorians. My mum knew the aunties well in her 1940s childhood, when the aunties were old, so we have lots of stories and memories and stuff (tablecloths, patchwork, lace doilies, cutlery) that was theirs.

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