mikey mikey wrote:
well you can move up here with me ....I have two nice couches and a balcony and you are welcome to come up and spend some time anytime

That offer is extended to any forum member too.

In Scotland we already have free prescriptions for all, our hospitals are not run by Trusts, we have free Education and tuition fees ,

This is why we want independence, we have seen improvements since devolution

dawnbreak wrote:

I work in Dundee during the Summer and I used to live in Glasgow (ten years ago) and I love Scotland. My mum is Scottish and tbh Northumberland has more in common with Scotland than it does with parts of the UK.

I love England too and it is a real shame to see it getting flogged off in a fire sale.

Your offer is so generous and your a warm like so many of the Scots I know and work with.

As it happens I am getting more attached to the idea of staying in Italy for a good long while.

And if you ever need a change from all that Scottish , you are very welcome to stay!

belle belle bonjela (foreign languages are not my strong point)

No worries. I will teach you all by starting my own "learn Italian thread"

mikey mikey wrote:
Ahem...

I was about to invite you too but you'd signed off. "zoned out"
Anyway, I was sure I had already!

If not

COME ON DOWN!

I started German night classes when I was was 29 and the teacher told me I spoke the worst German she had ever heard in a really bad French accent .

When I clocked on I was paying £33 a month to be insulted I left and took up line dancing in the village hall only to be told I moved like John Travolta on speed

I gave up night classes after that

Italians is easier for Scots because

1) the vowel sounds are similar: "A" as in "cat", "E" as in "egg", "I" as in "ski" , "O" as in "pot" and "U" as in "flu"

that's it so its from "me mammie" to "mia mama"

2) they roll their "R" sounds like Scots.

3) they actually pronounce every consonant (except "h")

4) It's a lot more fun than effing German

It's a braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht, the nicht ya ken

It's a cold bright moonlit night tonight, you know.

(my mum likes that one! )