On Sunday morning mia_mcdavid and our son James left here for a road trip. They drove to Michigan, to see Mia’s mother and other relatives. I have been alone here, except for the cat, who apparently regards me primarily as her servant. So what have I been doing? Continue reading
Irish Class, May 16, 2011
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Irish Class, May 9, 2011
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Write a paragraph that describes an object, a very familiar object, so that other people can guess what it is.
You’ll read your description in class on May 9, and people can kind of play 20 questions to figure out what you are talking about.
Irish Class, April 18, 2011
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Irish Class, April 11, 2011
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Irish Class, April 4, 2011
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Irish Class, March 28, 2011
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Will passed around a copy of Cén Sórt é?:
A compendium of the varied and vast words in the Irish language to describe different kinds of people. The work was assembled using a wide range of authoritive sources and contains cross-references to these sources. It will be both a source of reference and pleasure for users of the language.
At a glance, most of the “words … to describe different kinds of people” seem to be negative. Looks like fun,
and well worth a few Euros.
Irish Class, March 21, 2011
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Encouraged by mia_mcdavid and carpe_noctum_93, and by discovering that there are two other brewers in my Irish class, I started another batch of beer.
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