This is just say a BIG thank you to everyone who made this event so special.
Thanks to all those who came.
Thanks for all the wonderful food that people brought.
Thanks for the great company of this very special group.
We hope you all enjoyed it and found it a relaxing evening.
Have a great summer, love from
Paula y Bob
A friendship and language group based in Chiclana de la Frontera. Un grupo de intercambio de idiomas y amistad en Chiclana de la Frontera.
viernes, 2 de julio de 2010
jueves, 1 de julio de 2010
"Jacob's Join". The history!
This is a term not widely used outside Lancashire. This is what the website "Worldwide Words" has to say about it:
"Eric Partridge describes it as “the eating equivalent of a bottle party”, in which each participant brings along as much food as he or she is likely to want to eat, but puts it into a common stock for the communal meal.
The term Jacob’s join is well known in and around Lancashire. Eric Partridge and Nigel Rees both record that people from that English county have told them about it. However, nobody seems to know where it comes from. This is hardly surprising: there are many such sayings, often with quite wide circulations, whose origins are totally obscure. In this case, the connection is presumably with the biblical Jacob, he of Jacob’s ladder. Could it refer to the mess of pottage (a dish of stew, in modern language) for which, the Bible tells us, Esau sold his birthright to his twin brother Jacob?"
There were many Methodist villages in rural Lancashire and it is my theory that the term comes from there. These communities did not have any pubs as they didn't drink alcohol so probably socialised by organising a Jacob's Join.
"Eric Partridge describes it as “the eating equivalent of a bottle party”, in which each participant brings along as much food as he or she is likely to want to eat, but puts it into a common stock for the communal meal.
The term Jacob’s join is well known in and around Lancashire. Eric Partridge and Nigel Rees both record that people from that English county have told them about it. However, nobody seems to know where it comes from. This is hardly surprising: there are many such sayings, often with quite wide circulations, whose origins are totally obscure. In this case, the connection is presumably with the biblical Jacob, he of Jacob’s ladder. Could it refer to the mess of pottage (a dish of stew, in modern language) for which, the Bible tells us, Esau sold his birthright to his twin brother Jacob?"
There were many Methodist villages in rural Lancashire and it is my theory that the term comes from there. These communities did not have any pubs as they didn't drink alcohol so probably socialised by organising a Jacob's Join.
¡Qué buena pinta!
A pesar de los problemas de recortes presupuestarios, va a celebrarse. Siempre, al lado de la música. Y si es de Mezclas...más.
sábado, 19 de junio de 2010
¡¡¡QUÉ MACHISTAS!!!
Estoy muy enfadada.

Sara Carbonero es una profesional. Ya trabajaba en esto antes de salir con Casillas, qué tiene que hacer, ¿Renunciar a su trabajo? ¿Qué forma de pensar es esa, del siglo XVII?
Dice el Times que en España había polémica con este tema, qué mentira; en los medios españoles lo que nadie podía creerse es que un periódico SUPUESTAMENTE SERIO que nunca se acuerda de nosotros para cubrir noticias culturales o positivas pueda publicar una chorrada así ¡¡¡En primera página!!! Sólo se ha hablado de esto para decir lo que el Times decía. Alucinando.
Sí: Sara Carbonero pondrá nervioso a un estadio entero lleno de machotes machistas, que la expulsen de la profesión. Es demasiado guapa y les distrae, se pierden el partido. ¡No te fastidia!
Alguien puede explicarme qué le pasa a la prensa inglesa??
Saramago
Los escritores no se mueren nunca, afortunadamente. Los encuentras una y mil veces en sus obras, releyendo sus palabras. Con la desaparición de Saramago se va un hombre coherente, incómodo para el poder, brillantísimo y valiente, un intelectual absolutamente comprometido.
En Portugal nunca le perdonaron defender la utopía de unir nuestros dos países en una Iberia imposible; en estos años de su exilio voluntario en Lanzarote se erigió en una figura indispensable de nuestra intelectualidad.
Para los que estudiáis español puede ser difícil afrontar un libro con frases que pueden alargarse toda una página, mediante comas; pero es nuestra forma natural de pensar, de seguir un hilo...Los ingleses con vuestras frases cortas, directas, podéis tener algún problema. Pero merece la pena.
Su discurso de aceptación del Nobel http://saramago.blogspot.com/2004/10/discurso-de-aceptacin-del-premio-nobel.html
Opiniones en su blog http://cuaderno.josesaramago.org/category/el-cuaderno-de-saramago/
lunes, 12 de abril de 2010
miércoles, 7 de abril de 2010
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