Hello All

Work done. Weekend ahead. Whooppeeeeee. What a lot of wubble-yous/ewes/yews……add your own!

First stop: deliver  Thursday’s ‘The Scotsman’ to my friend AW. 

Its just a little token for the lifts from the station she gives me every Wednesday and Friday. Thank you AW.

Then it is Latin time! As I have already mentioned almost every fortnight for more years than we like to mention my friend AH and I get together to trample over the latin language. 

This Saturday’s ‘homework’ was the dreaded ‘Practising the language’. It lies in wait at the end of every chapter and means GRAMMAR!!!! I know I’ve been here before but grammar? really? Yikes….  Over the last couple of weeks we’ve tortured ourselves with verbs in the future tense and relative pro-nouns. This week…..participles. Now if anyone can explain to me – in VERY simple language –  how you decide the ending of your latin participle and what it actually means in translation I would be most grateful.

Luckily there are always biscuits and good conversation to keep us going. 

A recent discovery – yummy Polish iced ginger biscuits filled with apricot marmalade – helped us through the challenge of participles. Another piece of good news. A little birdie (my original latin tutor) tells me we are almost there and with Book V under our belts can go on to read lots of fun latin texts. I already have one waiting in the wings…meos pretiosus….

Until next we meet. Moke

P.S. We are all still cracking along with the Minimalism Game. Well done all. Mxx