In the paper today there was an article about the rain we’ve been having. Here’s one quote I liked that described it. “The storms that are vaulting across the Bay Area this week are moving so fast that they feel less like a drowning than a baptism — blessedly wet, but not inflicting any major flooding.”
It didn’t rain today, but I read more rain is on the way. El Nino has hit us. Finally!
I read somewhere that “dreich” is Scots’ folks favourite Scots word (if that makes sense). I wonder why??? Personally my favourite is “glakit”; I can safely use that a lot in NZ without causing obvious offense. Though, given the weather here at the moment, I think “dreich” may be getting more of a verbal outing.
It is odd that Scots should choose ‘dreich’ as there favourite word! LOL!! 🙂
And I love the idea of you using ‘glaikit’ in NZ – folk probably look a wee bit glaikit when you tell them the weather is dreich! 🙂
It’s a strange thing about my accent. When we came to NZ, I was about 6 and I “lost” my Scottish accent very quickly at school. I still spoke with it at home, and for a few years, I’d do this weird thing where I’d talk to a friend, then turn around and say something to my mother, in Scots! I was about 15 when I realised that I had started to think in a Kiwi accent (or more accurately, in Kiwi vernacular). When I go back to Scotland, it takes 2-3 days before I begin to use Scottish speech patterns again, but I don’t sound like my Fife relatives so much as having a sort of Everyman-accent. I’m not sure that even makes sense.
I usually resist “doing” a Scottish accent when people ask because I don’t like feeling like a performing monkey. But I do occasionally use it at home — much to my son’s amusement.
I love the idea of you being not bi lingual but bi accented as a teenager Su!! 🙂
I think it’s fairly usual for people to revert back to a similar accent to that of where they came from, I know my Mum still reverts back to a sort of Mancunian (Manchester) accent when she visits Lancashire, even though she has lived in Cornwall for almost 65 years now!
On a personal level, I don’t seem to have any accent, other than ‘English’ 😦 Even in Cornwall as a kid, I never really got a Cornish accent, and I’ve not picked up a Scottish accent even though I’ve been living up here for almost 10 years now.
I don’t blame you for resisting doing a Scottish accent when people ask, but I imagine your son would find your original accent very amusing!! 🙂
I think accents, like learning other languages, take hold much more easily in young children. My parents never really got Kiwi accents; and my dad has been here for almost 50 years. His Scottish accent has softened though, and compared to his family in Fife he sounds a bit English and a bit posh! I noticed it at primary school where there were quite a few British immigrant kids. The older ones never really lost their various English accents, while the little ones like my brother and I were much more likely to sound Kiwi. I guess we were in that phase of learning language generally.
The most amazing accent I’ve heard is a friend’s sister who is a Kiwi but moved to Edinburgh about 30 years ago as an adult. Talk about a mash-up! 🙂
That’s very true about kids picking up languages and accents (and most other things too!!), far better than us adults! Your Dad must be most upset if his family in Fife thinks he now sounds English with his hybrid accent! Lol! 🙂
A Scottish Kiwi, that definitely sounds like a very interesting combination 🙂
It has just turned colder here Lynz, last night and this morning the temp is about 0°C 🙂 But it would be nice to get some snow like you are having to go with the colder temps!
Love the haiku – very appropriate! Oddly enough it’s been rather dreich here in the desert this week as well. Sounds much more romantic than the usual “grey day” usually heard. Although I’m a fan either way 🙂
Thank you Meredith 🙂 It sounds like a few drier places in the US are getting fairly dreich weather at the moment, which must be a relief to you – we tend to think, ‘oh no, not more rain!!’ Lol! 🙂
I’m happy to get some snow, we’ve had so little here in Fife over the last three or four years 🙂
Mind you, it’s bound to snow heavily towards the end of next week, I’m driving down to Devon for the weekend for my parents Diamond Wedding anniversary!
Thanks Gilly 🙂 Glad you like the inclusion of some more Scottish dialect. I don’t know how Devon is fairing, but we have got a change in the weather today, it’s gone much colder, and of course with that, drier! 🙂
Dreich is such a meaninful word and I love the sound of it. It’s been one of those winters in many parts of the UK this year, but I imagine only the Scots call it ‘Dreich it weather’. Lovely photos, Andy. 🙂
Thank you Millie 🙂
Aye, I think ‘dreich’ weather is definitely just a Scottish term, and it does sound just like it means! 🙂
But I do know that it gets used in New Zealand, Su from https://zimmerbitch.wordpress.com/
uses the expression, she’s Scottish, but has lived over there for most of her adult life 🙂
I believe there are a lot of people who have Scottish roots in NZ. They have Pipe Bands and such like out there, too. Thanks for the link. I’ll hop over and have a look a little later on.
You’re right Millie, I think many thousands of the various Celtic nations migrated to the four corners of the earth from Victorian times till the 1950s/60s. And of course, they still do migrate, but not in such numbers.
Bagpipers and thistles are everywhere – so are shamrocks and leprechauns. Perhaps not so many Welsh dragons and leeks though… but dafffodils seem to be everywhere. But that’s probably nothing to do with Welsh migrations! 🙂
You can always send this lovely and cool rainy weather over to us Andy. At this stage the drought is bad and it’s very, very hot. We had some lovely rains last night and hopefully with more to come. 😀
I’d gladly do you a swap on the weather front for a day or two, but I also realise Sophia, that if we had weather like yours for more than that, we would be complaining constantly about it!!!!! The British as a whole, are terrible for complaining about our weather, which is probably some of the best weather in the world – sometimes wet, then dry, then cold, then hot, then windy etc etc. We are so lucky to have such varied weather!
Ha! I bet and yes, you would. I don’t complain much about the weather. When someone says it so very hot then I tell them, yeah, it’s summer. It should be hot, but for a few days it was really terrible. Hardly any wind, just humidity and the heat. Then yesterday we had quite a hailstorm. Broke a few windows but nothing serious and I am grateful for that. A lot of other people had serious damage. The hail was as big as tennis balls. Something we don’t usually get this side. I totally stressed about the Wasps under the vine leaf but luckily they were spared.
I love varied weather and wouldn’t mind living in Scotland at all. You are lucky indeed. 😀
We would find hot and humid weather very hard to cope with, anything over 20°C and many Scots start complaining! Lol!!
That sounds like an amazing hailstorm and I assume thunderstorm to, the sort that you associate tornadoes with. Glad that you or the wasps weren’t hurt in it though, it’s amazing to think that a hailstorm could do serious damage, our hail stones never get more than a centimetre or two in diameter.
And aye, we are very lucky with our weather 🙂
Unfortunately it’s still not snowed here yet, other than a wee bit at the beginning of December. But beggars can’t be choosers, and I’m grateful for the variety of weather we do get 🙂
Now that’s the kind of snow I was hoping to see each winter when I moved up to Scotland!!! In the last 10 years since I’ve been up here, the most snow we’ve had has been about 9 inches, I would love to get two to three feet of the stuff 🙂
I do agree with you Louise, the word ‘dreich’ is very suitable for all this dreary weather we’ve had of late! Thankfully today, we’ve actually seen the sun, albeit for just 10 minutes, but it does still exist!! 🙂
Dreich is one of my favourite Scots words but I am not fond of dreich days.
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LOL!!!! 🙂
I know exactly what you mean Laura, I too love the word but not the weather!
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Never heard of dreich before but what a perfect word to describe this weather!
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It’s very much a Scottish word Joy, and as you say, perfectly describes this weather we’ve been having 🙂
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Sums up the week we’ve had too. 🙂
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LOL!!!! Glad (sort of) to hear that we aren’t the only ones suffering with this miserable weather at the moment! 🙂
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In the paper today there was an article about the rain we’ve been having. Here’s one quote I liked that described it. “The storms that are vaulting across the Bay Area this week are moving so fast that they feel less like a drowning than a baptism — blessedly wet, but not inflicting any major flooding.”
It didn’t rain today, but I read more rain is on the way. El Nino has hit us. Finally!
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Lol!!! I love that description Deborah 🙂
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Magical dripping…it helps me to relax!
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Lol!!! You would be able to relax all the time in the UK at the moment Ann!! 🙂
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Great, then i am coming!
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I read somewhere that “dreich” is Scots’ folks favourite Scots word (if that makes sense). I wonder why??? Personally my favourite is “glakit”; I can safely use that a lot in NZ without causing obvious offense. Though, given the weather here at the moment, I think “dreich” may be getting more of a verbal outing.
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It is odd that Scots should choose ‘dreich’ as there favourite word! LOL!! 🙂
And I love the idea of you using ‘glaikit’ in NZ – folk probably look a wee bit glaikit when you tell them the weather is dreich! 🙂
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Hehe. I think most people are so stunned to hear me with a Scots accent they probably don’t pay too much attention to what I’m saying. 🙂
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Lol!!!! 🙂
I imagine it makes you quite popular too Su, the Scottish accent is brilliant 🙂
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It’s a strange thing about my accent. When we came to NZ, I was about 6 and I “lost” my Scottish accent very quickly at school. I still spoke with it at home, and for a few years, I’d do this weird thing where I’d talk to a friend, then turn around and say something to my mother, in Scots! I was about 15 when I realised that I had started to think in a Kiwi accent (or more accurately, in Kiwi vernacular). When I go back to Scotland, it takes 2-3 days before I begin to use Scottish speech patterns again, but I don’t sound like my Fife relatives so much as having a sort of Everyman-accent. I’m not sure that even makes sense.
I usually resist “doing” a Scottish accent when people ask because I don’t like feeling like a performing monkey. But I do occasionally use it at home — much to my son’s amusement.
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I love the idea of you being not bi lingual but bi accented as a teenager Su!! 🙂
I think it’s fairly usual for people to revert back to a similar accent to that of where they came from, I know my Mum still reverts back to a sort of Mancunian (Manchester) accent when she visits Lancashire, even though she has lived in Cornwall for almost 65 years now!
On a personal level, I don’t seem to have any accent, other than ‘English’ 😦 Even in Cornwall as a kid, I never really got a Cornish accent, and I’ve not picked up a Scottish accent even though I’ve been living up here for almost 10 years now.
I don’t blame you for resisting doing a Scottish accent when people ask, but I imagine your son would find your original accent very amusing!! 🙂
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I think accents, like learning other languages, take hold much more easily in young children. My parents never really got Kiwi accents; and my dad has been here for almost 50 years. His Scottish accent has softened though, and compared to his family in Fife he sounds a bit English and a bit posh! I noticed it at primary school where there were quite a few British immigrant kids. The older ones never really lost their various English accents, while the little ones like my brother and I were much more likely to sound Kiwi. I guess we were in that phase of learning language generally.
The most amazing accent I’ve heard is a friend’s sister who is a Kiwi but moved to Edinburgh about 30 years ago as an adult. Talk about a mash-up! 🙂
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That’s very true about kids picking up languages and accents (and most other things too!!), far better than us adults! Your Dad must be most upset if his family in Fife thinks he now sounds English with his hybrid accent! Lol! 🙂
A Scottish Kiwi, that definitely sounds like a very interesting combination 🙂
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Hmm, that second image looks like what I had to walk through this afternoon. Dreich this side of the country too. I ended up drookit!
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Lol!!! Not about you ending up drookit Anabel, just the use of these wonderful words!! I’m having to constantly ‘Add to dictionary’ on wordpress! 🙂
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Now that is wet!
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And we’ve actually had it drier than most people in Scotland!! 🙂
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Wow its icy here and snowy
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It has just turned colder here Lynz, last night and this morning the temp is about 0°C 🙂 But it would be nice to get some snow like you are having to go with the colder temps!
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Wow that is cold! Yes it does make you feel the cold is more beautiful. Our snow is finally melting off as we are now at 30 degrees!
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I think you may be confusing the fact that our temperatures are in centigrade, yours are in Fahrenheit Lynz 🙂
O°C is about 32°F 🙂
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oh my I forgot!! hahaha ok so you are all warm and cozy over there! hahaha
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We definitely are Lynz, relative to yourselves 🙂
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hahaha well yesterday is was around 30 here!
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Love the haiku – very appropriate! Oddly enough it’s been rather dreich here in the desert this week as well. Sounds much more romantic than the usual “grey day” usually heard. Although I’m a fan either way 🙂
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Thank you Meredith 🙂 It sounds like a few drier places in the US are getting fairly dreich weather at the moment, which must be a relief to you – we tend to think, ‘oh no, not more rain!!’ Lol! 🙂
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Another lovely Scottish word 🙂 but I think we are now in for some snow from the middle of next week, not sure if that is good after all the rain !!
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I’m happy to get some snow, we’ve had so little here in Fife over the last three or four years 🙂
Mind you, it’s bound to snow heavily towards the end of next week, I’m driving down to Devon for the weekend for my parents Diamond Wedding anniversary!
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Well there you go, its all your fault 🙂 🙂 hope you have a wonderful time 🙂
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Lol!! Thanks Lynne 🙂
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That sums it up so well, love the use of Scottish words in haiku 🙂
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Thanks Gilly 🙂 Glad you like the inclusion of some more Scottish dialect. I don’t know how Devon is fairing, but we have got a change in the weather today, it’s gone much colder, and of course with that, drier! 🙂
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Bright, breezy, cold, heavy showers, all weather really!
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Best of all worlds!!! 🙂
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Dreich is such a meaninful word and I love the sound of it. It’s been one of those winters in many parts of the UK this year, but I imagine only the Scots call it ‘Dreich it weather’. Lovely photos, Andy. 🙂
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Thank you Millie 🙂
Aye, I think ‘dreich’ weather is definitely just a Scottish term, and it does sound just like it means! 🙂
But I do know that it gets used in New Zealand, Su from
https://zimmerbitch.wordpress.com/
uses the expression, she’s Scottish, but has lived over there for most of her adult life 🙂
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I believe there are a lot of people who have Scottish roots in NZ. They have Pipe Bands and such like out there, too. Thanks for the link. I’ll hop over and have a look a little later on.
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You’re right Millie, I think many thousands of the various Celtic nations migrated to the four corners of the earth from Victorian times till the 1950s/60s. And of course, they still do migrate, but not in such numbers.
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Bagpipers and thistles are everywhere – so are shamrocks and leprechauns. Perhaps not so many Welsh dragons and leeks though… but dafffodils seem to be everywhere. But that’s probably nothing to do with Welsh migrations! 🙂
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Lol!!! 🙂
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You can always send this lovely and cool rainy weather over to us Andy. At this stage the drought is bad and it’s very, very hot. We had some lovely rains last night and hopefully with more to come. 😀
Is that doggy footprints I see in the mud? 😆
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I’d gladly do you a swap on the weather front for a day or two, but I also realise Sophia, that if we had weather like yours for more than that, we would be complaining constantly about it!!!!! The British as a whole, are terrible for complaining about our weather, which is probably some of the best weather in the world – sometimes wet, then dry, then cold, then hot, then windy etc etc. We are so lucky to have such varied weather!
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Ha! I bet and yes, you would. I don’t complain much about the weather. When someone says it so very hot then I tell them, yeah, it’s summer. It should be hot, but for a few days it was really terrible. Hardly any wind, just humidity and the heat. Then yesterday we had quite a hailstorm. Broke a few windows but nothing serious and I am grateful for that. A lot of other people had serious damage. The hail was as big as tennis balls. Something we don’t usually get this side. I totally stressed about the Wasps under the vine leaf but luckily they were spared.
I love varied weather and wouldn’t mind living in Scotland at all. You are lucky indeed. 😀
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We would find hot and humid weather very hard to cope with, anything over 20°C and many Scots start complaining! Lol!!
That sounds like an amazing hailstorm and I assume thunderstorm to, the sort that you associate tornadoes with. Glad that you or the wasps weren’t hurt in it though, it’s amazing to think that a hailstorm could do serious damage, our hail stones never get more than a centimetre or two in diameter.
And aye, we are very lucky with our weather 🙂
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I bet. Never come this side in the summer then! LOL!
It sure was and I was just worried about the wasps. Can you imagine? LOL! I am also glad they weren’t hurt either. I would have missed them. 😀
You’re lucky. In some places it looked like it snowed. Luckily we only got the last part of the hailstorm.
You sure are. Enjoy and treasure it. 😀
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Unfortunately it’s still not snowed here yet, other than a wee bit at the beginning of December. But beggars can’t be choosers, and I’m grateful for the variety of weather we do get 🙂
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A pity indeed. I do like seeing snow but when I see people shoveling it away from their doors and cars, I don’t know if I really want that job. LOL!
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Now that’s the kind of snow I was hoping to see each winter when I moved up to Scotland!!! In the last 10 years since I’ve been up here, the most snow we’ve had has been about 9 inches, I would love to get two to three feet of the stuff 🙂
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Seems you have your work cut out for you then Andy! LOL!
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I forgot, you’re right Sophia, I hadn’t noticed Jake’s footprints in the mud!! 🙂
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Ah, so it’s Jake’s footprint? So cute! 😀
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Aye, it was Jakes! 🙂
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Nice, Andy! It’s gone from dreich to snowy overnight – about an inch or so here this morning, and foggy. But I’m welcoming the change!
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Thanks Jo 🙂
Glad to hear that you have had some snow, alas it’s still raining here 😦
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I love the word ‘dreich’! We’ve definitely been having a lot of very wet weather recently. I’m looking forward to the return of the Sun. 🙂
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I do agree with you Louise, the word ‘dreich’ is very suitable for all this dreary weather we’ve had of late! Thankfully today, we’ve actually seen the sun, albeit for just 10 minutes, but it does still exist!! 🙂
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Really conveys the feeling in just those well chosen words!
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Thanks Amanda 🙂
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