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Post by Bad-Bitch on Nov 17, 2016 20:57:38 GMT
Happiest of Birthdays to you hope you had a good one  |
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Post by tomsk on Nov 17, 2016 21:19:19 GMT
Happy birthday...
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Post by bargemast on Nov 18, 2016 8:02:03 GMT
Thanks to you for your happy birthday wishes.
For different- and unimportant reasons, I haven't celebrated my last couple of birthdays.
But yesterday when I was having a shave early in the morning, and discovered a sleepy not overly happy looking face in the mirror, I'd seen that face before but didn't really remember where and when, he looked a bit like a weirdo, but it takes more than one weirdo to scare me off.
I thought to cheer him up a bit by pulling all sorts of funny faces, that he immediately tried to copy (not very successful if you ask me) and because I felt sorry for the guy, I invited him for a drink.
If the weather would have allowed we could have sat outside in the sun, drinking a glass of biological fruitjuice (as I've been a T-total all my life) but there was only rain and lots of wind, so I made us 2 nice cups of hot chocolat.
The guy in the mirror must have had more important things to do, as he didn't show up, so I had the 2 cups for myself and had a nice quite day, only disturbed by birthday-phonecalls and a swollen up laptop, that was almost bursting with birtday-mails that I had to answer.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Post by 46700 on Nov 18, 2016 8:37:21 GMT
All the best for your day now back to the routine of 364 un birthdays
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Post by patty on Nov 18, 2016 9:31:55 GMT
Oops keep missing these...so now.....
A very merry unbirthday day to uhoooooooooooooooooo
sigh still can't post emoticons but I'm sure someone will oblige............
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Post by PaulG2 on Nov 18, 2016 14:05:09 GMT
Je vous souhaite plein de bonheur en cette journée spéciale.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 15:04:32 GMT
Fijne verjaardag  |
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Post by naughtyfox on Nov 18, 2016 15:30:43 GMT
Hyvää Syntymäpäivää ja terveisiä Pohjois-Pohjanmaalta!  |
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Post by bargemast on Nov 18, 2016 15:33:00 GMT
Je vous souhaite plein de bonheur en cette journée spéciale.
C'est très gentil, et j'apprécis, mais comme vous avez pu lire, la journée n'a pas été ce qu'on peut appeler spéciale, cela dit, ça me convenait.
Peter.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 18, 2016 15:42:01 GMT
Fijne verjaardag Bedankt voor deze wens, ik dacht dat je deze taal niet sprak, maar je lijkt hem wel te kunnen schrijven, dat kan weleens van pas komen.
Just in case you don't understand : Thanks for this wish, I thought you didn't speak this language, but you seem to be able to write it, which could come in handy at sometime.
Peter.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 18, 2016 15:48:14 GMT
Hyvää Syntymäpäivää ja terveisiä Pohjois-Pohjanmaalta! Sorry to say that I've never learned a word of finnish, the lovely Finnish girl I met in Kobenhavn in the beginning of the 70's named Rita, spoke perfect English, which made communicating so much easier.
With all the fantasy I have, I make something like Happy Birthday out of your text, but the last bit looks more like Russian to me.
Thanks for your wishes too.
Peter.
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Post by naughtyfox on Nov 18, 2016 15:53:55 GMT
Hyvä = Good
Syntymä = birth
Päivä = day
Pohjois = Northern
Pohjanmaa = Ostrobothnia
lta = from
(they stick the prepositions on the end)
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Post by naughtyfox on Nov 18, 2016 15:56:43 GMT
This is where I live:
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Post by bargemast on Nov 18, 2016 16:22:55 GMT
Hyvä = Good Syntymä = birth Päivä = day Pohjois = Northern Pohjanmaa = Ostrobothnia lta = from (they stick the prepositions on the end) My partly translation came fairly close, but a big mistake I made was by thinking that : "Hyvä" would be something like "Have a" and for : " Syntymäpäivää ja terveisiä" I thought that that could have been something like a happy birthday.
I don't think that I will ever learn Finnish, as I think that most Skandinavian people will be able to speak at least some English, and that I wouldn't be completely lost if I would ever go there.
On your video the place you live looks like a fairly quite smaller village, is that river/canal/stream a navigable waterway, or is it only good enough for canoes etc.
There aren't any 5 rise-locks or anything like tha next door ?
Peter.
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Post by naughtyfox on Nov 18, 2016 17:31:20 GMT
I forgot to say that 'terveisiä' means 'Greetings'. It's a largish village - 2 food shops, a bank, camping site, hardware store, hairdressers, masseur, church, and 2 places to buy petrol/diesel. There's a small hotel with a bar, and another bar for alcoholics. Both depressing 'pubs' - have been once 11 years ago to look, not been back. Himanka could really do with a proper 'English pub'. That's the River Lestijoki - you could go down in a dinghy if you want to bump your bum a lot on the boulders! There are good things about Finland, very pleasant surprises (such as a sauna at our bus garage of just 3 buses!), but mostly it's a really boring country, just fields and forests and lakes. Bitterly cold in Winter, mosquitoes in Summer (trillions of 'em). Welcome to visit us if you like! I could give you a ride in my bus so you can see some fields and trees and very naughty little kids! ps - I've posted this before. Finland does have some locks on the lake systems. veneilya.blogspot.fi/2011/06/11-1262011-jyvaskyla-viitasaari.html |
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