Dukkhaboy

And it was a BMW 🙃

a u-haul truck is sitting in the middle of a busy parking lot . Alt: Huge non-moving traffic jam

Anyone else drove west on the A303 this afternoon?

And the photo is ♥️

Gisele Pelicot being applauded and supported by women around the time of the trial of her husband

This popped up on my phone and I remembered the respect and awe I felt in the presence of such dignity and bravery
I hope her life is now opening up some peace and freedom to her

A comment published is a comment published
Also got a text out the blue from MHu who had to e comment and asked if it was me!!

My message was posted on bbc cricket - I wrote “Re Martin @ 11.53:1am welcoming back Gus Atkinson. He has 55 wickets in 12 tests at 22.3. I think that's probably a better average than any current England bowler.”

Fame has come my way #thecricket

My youngest came home from 5 months travelling a week ago today and it was a beautiful thing. Letting them go is not a choice but I think of you can do it well they will come back in ways that warm and fill your heart

Motherfucking wind farms…

Who's Talking J.J. Cale · Travel-Log · Song · 1990

Songs with a groove that works whether you’re up very late and flagging or up early and flagging #JJCale open.spotify.com/track/2xijkd...

Love this and the replies

Always thought my time at Four Elms village cricket club qualified me to play for England men’s test team. But apparently not

Good eh?

Blueberry escort 💋

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬

‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

Pi (2018 Remaster) YouTube video by Kate Bush - Topic

Happy birthday Kate Bush.
My son can be like this song describes too youtu.be/kRd2kfZO_wA?... #pi

He was the bass player with Bon Iver on ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’

It’s of birds I heard with the Merlin app this morning - part 1

It’s of birds I heard with the Merlin app this morning - part 2

It’s of birds I heard with the Merlin app this morning - part 3

It’s of birds I heard with the Merlin app this morning - part 4

Nothing new for me today but an arrowhead of 40 noisy Canadian geese was good

Discombobulated.
and don’t worry I am more than happy with my life now

Hahaha. I’ve been saved from more than that

What is weird is realising that today would have been your silver wedding anniversary but you separated 6 years ago #solitaryman

And so his business model continues #griftPLC

To my bank,
Sending me an email with the title “keeping your money goals on track” is not a great way to inspire interaction from me
#Corporatebollocks

It’s certainly confusing. What should I think about people starving to death ??

Wondering if Lucy Bronze is related to George Headley……

BREAKING: At least 43 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces across Gaza since dawn today, including six aid seekers, sources in Gaza hospitals tell Al Jazeera.

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When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

A dragoman was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish-, Arabic-, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts. A dragoman had to have a knowledge of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and European languages. In the Ottoman Empire, Dragomans were mainly members of the Ottoman Greek community, who possessed considerable multilingual skills, because Greek trading communities did substantial business in the markets of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. To a lesser extent, other communities with international commercial links, notably the Armenians, were recruited. In Arabic the word is ترجمان (tarjumān), in Turkish tercüman. Deriving from the Semitic quadriliteral root t-r-g-m, it appears in Akkadian as "targumannu," in Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic) as ትርጓም (t-r-gw-m), and in Aramaic as targemana. Hebrew makes a distinction between מתרגם (metargem)—referring to a translator of written texts—and מתורגמן (meturgeman) referring to an interpreter of spoken conversation or speeches. The latter is obviously more closely related to the other languages mentioned, though both are derived from the same Semitic root. There has been speculation of a Hittite origin of the term. During the Middle Ages the word entered European languages: in Middle English as dragman, from Old French drugeman, from Medieval Latin as dragumannus, from Middle Greek δραγομάνος, dragoumanos. Later European variants include the German trutzelmann, the French trucheman or truchement (in post-Tanzimat French, and in modern French it is drogman), the Italian turcimanno, and the Spanish trujamán, trujimán and truchimán; these variants point to a Turkish or Arabic word "turjuman", with different vocalization. Webster's Dictionary of 1828 lists dragoman as well as the variants drogman and truchman in English. The plural in English is thus "dragomans" (not "dragomen").

What's the oldest word in the English language?

It's 'dragoman', a rare term that refers to professional translators (Agatha Christie used it).

English borrowed the word from the Turkish 'tercüman', which in turn was borrowed from the Akkadian word 'targumannu', first written down 5,000 years ago.

I am moving to south Devon for a yearat the end of the week. Won’t be using my phone as much I hope but I will still be getting this app out! I will be living much more ‘out of town’ and so hope to hear and notice the bird life

Always good to hear a new one.

Quiet morning for me as I got up late and didn’t loiter as it was raining, but I did add a green woodpecker to my list