Yesterday I had my first french lesson. I know I've been in France since last October, but the problem with learning a new language is that you learn it based on its grammar. There, however, is the problem! I wasn't taught grammar at school (as it wasn't that sort of school!!!!) and so trying to understand French grammar and relate it to English grammar...well you can understand my predicament.So, for the last 6 months or so I have been trying to learn about the different elements of grammar (if that's how you would describe it) so that I have a better understanding of how to construct grammatically correct French sentences.
My French as it stands today is still pretty pants. I know lots of words, particulary nouns such as Dog, Tree and Car. Conversation wise, just saying nouns doesn't sound too intelligent, so hopefully after a few (thousand) lessons I should be able to understand French speakers and then I'll know when is a good time to say my nouns!!!!!
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
DanDiggins.co.uk Goes Live
After months of being representing by a list of folders, DanDiggins.co.uk has officially gone live today.
This is the first phase of my site which is a collection of some of the assignments and the Masters Project that I did on my Computer Animation MSc degree at Bournemouth University.Friday, September 15, 2006
Wedding Anniversary
Today is our 10th Wedding Anniversary...Wow.
Ahhhh...Bewdeeful
Those years seem to have flown past.
Some of the things that have happened in those 10 years (in no particular order)...
- Had 2 jobs.
- Had 3 children.
- Moved house 4 times.
- Had loads of cars.
- Had identity stolen by some crook/knob'ead.
- Did an MSc at Bournemouth University.
- Left the country!
- Lost a large portion of my hair!
Monday, September 04, 2006
Swim in Lac Annecy
Well after nearly 9 months of pressure from my French neighbours, I finally took the plunge (pun intended) and went for a swim in the lake.
Everytime I spoke with my neighbours, they could not believe I had not been in the lake. Everybody who lives around the lake also spends a big part of their life in the lake too...apparently! So after a really sweaty day gardening I decided I'd go and do it.
To say the water was cold was an understatement...I waded in (without wincing as there were loads of people around) and just dived in. The cold literally took my breath away, I couldn't even swim, all I could do was float around. I did manage to sort of breast crawl/half drown my way about 30 metres from the shore where I found the water was quite warm. The warmness didn't last though as there were pockets of freezing water drifting through...so I make a quick dash for the shore and exited (still trying to look sort of cool) to the warmth of my towel.
Everytime I spoke with my neighbours, they could not believe I had not been in the lake. Everybody who lives around the lake also spends a big part of their life in the lake too...apparently! So after a really sweaty day gardening I decided I'd go and do it.
To say the water was cold was an understatement...I waded in (without wincing as there were loads of people around) and just dived in. The cold literally took my breath away, I couldn't even swim, all I could do was float around. I did manage to sort of breast crawl/half drown my way about 30 metres from the shore where I found the water was quite warm. The warmness didn't last though as there were pockets of freezing water drifting through...so I make a quick dash for the shore and exited (still trying to look sort of cool) to the warmth of my towel.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Back to School
Yesterday I spent the day at Emily and Sophie's school! Not to study, but to try and salvage as many working computers from a pile of old second-hand (scrapped) machines. With a new school year starting and with new admissions the sharing rate for the machines was 2-3 pupils so they were needing more computers. With the school being very small and privately funded thay used old business cast-offs for their hardware.
There were 28 machines to go through, ranging from old Pentiums to Pentium IIIs and had all sorts of Operating Systems installed (Win 95, Win 98, Win NT, Win 2000 and Linux). As most of the machines being used at the school were still Win 98, that is what we decided we would stick with, however, most machines had win 2000 on and the password was unknown so I am going to have to attempt to wipe win2000 and install win98 (I took a machine home to give it a go). Looking in the newsgroups it doesn't sound like its an easy job...but I always like a challenge.
By the end of the day I had 5 working machines that were networked and ready to go, which was lucky as one of their current machines packed up while I was there so I swapped it for one of the salvaged ones.
Hopefully if I can de-install win2000 and get win98 working, they should get at least another 6 working machines.
It was interesting being at the school all day, I sat in the headmasters classroom where the older children are taught. It sounded like a fun class (didn't understand anything as they were talking Franch). During the breaktimes I saw Emily playing , which was nice.
There were 28 machines to go through, ranging from old Pentiums to Pentium IIIs and had all sorts of Operating Systems installed (Win 95, Win 98, Win NT, Win 2000 and Linux). As most of the machines being used at the school were still Win 98, that is what we decided we would stick with, however, most machines had win 2000 on and the password was unknown so I am going to have to attempt to wipe win2000 and install win98 (I took a machine home to give it a go). Looking in the newsgroups it doesn't sound like its an easy job...but I always like a challenge.
By the end of the day I had 5 working machines that were networked and ready to go, which was lucky as one of their current machines packed up while I was there so I swapped it for one of the salvaged ones.
Hopefully if I can de-install win2000 and get win98 working, they should get at least another 6 working machines.
It was interesting being at the school all day, I sat in the headmasters classroom where the older children are taught. It sounded like a fun class (didn't understand anything as they were talking Franch). During the breaktimes I saw Emily playing , which was nice.
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