Not a lot done today..housework..meh! It is ok when you can share the jobs...but needs must do it, even though it takes away from doing interesting things!!
I do like ironing though...the smell ..and the results!
So, I didn't get out to my studio until after lunch. I was nicely warm from the sun...and on the way down the garden I had a flypast..the first bumblebee this year!!
The soap dishes...became candle plates.
I've started using my collection of stamps, mainly made from clay, but some found objects too. These make a feature impression,...which helps to attach a handle soundly.
I'm working on irregular verbs...you just have to learn them! But I look at the lists...and I realise ..I don't really understand what the verb tense names mean..
Look, I had to re-sit English Language "O" level...and only just passed it. I succeeded in French with higher marks, especially spoken..
Which is odd...as I never have done much talking....
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I got my French credits after high school. It was tough.
A bumblebee flypast! They're keen to get out there and start pollinating!
I ,would be so lost, both with pot-makung and French. I think you are doing superbly well!
I do like the candle holder concept! My daughter doing English in this century is very different to my English last century. Grammar appears to be gone.
Years ago, when learning Russian I got a book called English for Students of Russian (there was the same available for French) which explained in English (with English sentences as examples) what it is that i was trying to achieve in Russian with conjugations, declensions, tenses and gendered nouns etc. Made me realize I know nothing about how language is constructed and English doesn't really have rules (read Bill Bryson's "Mother Tongue" for more on origins of grammar rules in English - and why they don't work)
I'll have to look for that book (and check if son#2 already has it!)
study after school is always tough...I remember my dad studying so that he could pass exsms to go to teacher training college. He was a technician in Southampton Unicersity's Electronics department. I used to go straight from school to there and we'd both do our homework there after he finished work.
I think it is the same in every language, even French. Although they seem to have held onto the language structure
Candle plates are pretty
I learned far more about the structure of English in my Latin lessons than in English classes - you had to know your tenses, cases etc with Latin.
You are likely the most productive person I know. Undertaking pottery and a French language course is impressive.
I like the idea of candle plates. That's fun. Well done on your French!
I had two honey bees in the house today, which was thrilling.
I haven't seen a bee yet, can't wait to see one hopefully soon.
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