English Lesson 1 answers and an update Saturday

Well class I hope you have all tried to answer the English language lesson from yesterday and hopefully you are all correct. We have had such a good time with the language and the people, I thought we should share that part with you. So for the first round of vocabulary here are the answers:

pud - dessert from pudding, refers to all dessert on the menu, notice that I started with that!

veg - all vegetables on the menu, served separately in their own bowl, not included on the plate with the meal

brilliant - great, terrific, fab idea

WAG - this is annoying, Wife and girlfriend, think Prince Charles

concession - the discounts given to us as OAP's always referred to as the concession, has a nicer ring to it doesn't it?

Toucan hump crossing - we have no idea, something to do with driving and a cross walk but we have yet to figure it out.

sorry - always used instead of excuse me in any and all situattions

whole meal, or the brown, - whole wheat bread or toast

spotted dick - sponge cake, figure that one out!

cuppa - cup of tea

cream tea - tea and scones in the afternoon accompanied by clotted cream and jam, yum!

As you can see most of my language acquistion has to do with food, no real explanation that I can think of to explain that one.

Today we are outside of Warick, in a B and B out in the countryside. It was quite a feat to find this place, let's just say we drove in circles for quite a while, finally stopped to ask for directions and this lovely man (lovely is another word overused here) took pity on us gave us great directions and led us part way here. Thank goodness or we would never have made it.
The last 2 days we were in Moreton-in-Marsh at the Horse and Groom, an old rooming house from the 1800's. Tom, our host, was wonderful and fun, his brother was the cook and it was fantastic food. Even has been written up in the Good Food Guide. We had this dessert last night, meraguine toffee cake sort of thing, Tom would not give out his mom's receipe, I guess even Better Homes and Gardens is after it. We drove all over the Costwold's exploring some great old towns and would love to come back and do some walking on the "public footpaths" of which there are many, many miles. The Brits love to "walk about", it has been too cold and the paths too wet for much of that this time.
We have been lucky with the weather, it has been cold, but that has notstopped us from trudging about, only a little rain, the most rain was on the day we were traveling by train and car so it didn't bother us at all.
Tomorrow we are going back to the Cotwald's from Warick, we will tour the castle tomorrow morning, the story behind not staying at this B and B will have to wait until we get home, then off to Windsor, more castle touring and home.
We may not be so lucky to have another chance at a computer, but we hope to add to the blog at least once more, but if not, it has been hard getting wi fi.
Miss you all, anxious to get home, but loving the trip too.

Respectfully submitted,

Diane offical WAG scribe, the original version not the Brits version and her traveling band of OAP's Bev and Patti