well, actually I have been doing it most of the evening, along with watching the tudors and criminal minds on downloads, and providing lots of [hopeful] advice to B-I-L. Thanks for all well wishes for sister. I am hoping for the best.
We had another productive day here today, whilst I was at work, SB did some calligraphy reading and coloured in a beautiful letter. BB also did a beautiful colouring of a letter. SB did maths and handwriting practice and some sudoko. She was still sudoko obsesed when I got home, so we did some together and then violin practice. We are trying to encourage the shoulder rest – her body posture isn’t as good with it, but hoping it will get better as it gets more comfortable.
We all read a few stories, and a chip supper [word just for p2] to robin hood downloads. SB gets v concerned why people are bad. she just doesn’t ‘get’ being nasty. BB is rather enjoying watching vicar of dibley, and so are we actually!
Can’t help thinking BB would get the whole ‘being bad ‘ thing though……
P2 may dislike “supper” but I’ve been struggling to think of an alternative – that isn’t “light evening meal”. We have a supper if we’ve had a big middle of the day dinner. I can’t bear “tea” when used for a meal. Chloe and Jamie were constantly confused by my “tea” meaning cup of and Michelle R’s “tea” meaning supper/evening meal. “Would you like to come in for some tea?” would get Jamie happy becuase he thought he’d be served food here. He wailed going home once because he thought I was going to feed him! Had to clarify more clearly after that.
From Dictionary.com “Supper is a light evening meal – served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening after an early-evening dinner. Either way, it is regarded as the last meal of the day. Dinner is the main meal of the day, served either in the evening or at midday. However, in certain regions of the US (New England in particular), the words are used interchangeably for the main evening meal. Supper is the older word, dating to c. 1275, and is the less formal term. Dinner dates to 1297 and signifies the chief meal of the day, no matter what time it is served, and is a formally arranged meal, sometimes given to celebrate something or in honor of someone. Both terms derived from similarly spelled French words.”
well, it is obviously a very old and reputable word then!
And certainly in Scotland, any meal bought from chip shop, which includes chips, is called a supper. So fish on it’s own is a “single fish” and with chips it’s a “fish supper”.