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10:17 am
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I can´t help boasting
I am not very modest, I know - but yesterday I donated again - 64 times. Still useful! Lalalalalala!
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09:40 am
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My trip to Britain - days 5 and 6
Day five was also the last one in beautiful Wales. We visited an unbelievably posh Cardiff Castle - the guide there was the best experience for me, he was perfect, his English like dream and he was such a nice man who obviously liked his work.
We roamed in the streets of Cardiff, Niky and I spent horrible money on ice-cream but mmmm....
( A little more writing and pictures here )A glimpse of Lynton
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03:12 pm
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A trip to Britain - day 3 and four
Our third day saw us in Brecon Beacons National Park where we visited Dan-yr-Ogof, three caves discovered by the Morgan brothers in 19th century. ( Text and pictures here )Lovely walk in Tenby
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09:14 pm
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A trip to Britain - first two days
It is hard to believe I am back. It is also hard to believe that we had actually excellent weather in Britain, even too hot sometimes. Here, on the other hand, only rains, storms and floods. All is back again - it is pouring down just now.
( Read more, see some pictures )
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08:31 pm
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Back at home
Hello, I arrived back two hours ago after 16-hour journey on the bus. Huh. But - what a lovely trip I had!
I just wanted to tell you that I am back and lots of pictures with me. I only need to arrange the house ( two men alone for 9 days - do I need to explain?).
And again, I am afraid I will not be able to catch up with all your comments...
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07:53 am
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Holidays!!!
Only to survive a madness of the last library opening day today!!! Tomorrow at 5 a.m. my colleague and I, together with a coach full of demented teachers, leave for Britain! "Recharging the batteries" is a motto of this event :-)
Ah, not easy for me, we still have that horrible weather here, it has settled here like a blanket and though it doesn´t rain all the time, it makes it up with violent bucketing here and there. Our village is still safe but the water is rising. I do hope nothing disastrous will happen.
I will return 5th July in the evening. I have my camera with me and I am eager to explore every place properly!
I am excited because I will see my beloved Wells Cathedral again - I tell you, there is Something, no other place affects me like that - I just cry and cry - with happiness and relief. I may be silly or sentimental or whatever but I swear, I am not SO soft to have such release in the open. It has happened for two times. If the re- incarnation exixts, then I must have been there before.
Well, I will miss you, my friends, and I hope you will be all right. Um...I will not be able to catch up with your comments, so I apoplogise here.
See you soon!!!!
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08:47 pm
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Floods again?
I suspected something like that because the clouds looked exactly like those in 2002 and 2003 - drapes hanging down to the ground, heavy with water. Yes, we are experiencing another whim of Mother Nature. It has been raining for two days now, and it is not normal rain, it is a water attack. So far we have received 100 mm of water here because the south of CR is one of the most affected areas. Some small rivers have already flooded the villages around, the water level of all rivers is rising. We do not have a real river near here, just that system of ponds and canals I have mentioned (from 16th century). My village Spolí is situated in a kind of a "bowl" which means that water always rushes down in it from the surrounding meadows, fields and forests. All the trenches have disappeared in a wild flow. That big pond (25 ha) called Spolský is full and the warden had to let the water go via an artificial canal (also 16th century) to a big pond called Svět (World) in the town of Třeboň (8km). From there the water goes to the biggest man- made pond in Europe called Rožmberk. It can get lots of water but it has been tried too much since the last catastrophic floods 2002,2003...
The pastures on the opposite side have been already flooded and the cattle have moved up a mild slope - they are safe. Our cattle are quite safe so far , they are in a different location. The pond in front of our house is filling rapidly. I have to say that yesterday it was totally empty due to some technical work...
I confess I am scared, after two enormous floods here, I am even hysterical. Can you imagine a dam of our 25 ha pond going? It would take the whole village! We have to rely on the most perfect work of our medieval pond builders, whose perfection saved us all in previous years.
No need to say that all the farmers here (including my husband) are frustrated, angry and worried. No one will receive any refund of their loss. None of them is rich enough to be able to pay for the insurance. So we have to hope that Mother Nature will calm down in time...
All is soaked, Tygr returned from outside like a wet rug and had to be rubbed with an old towel, silly cat. He now sleeps in a plastic bag ( more silly). I made fire ( 14 °C) but the furnace makes problems, I know this, it is an atmospheric pressure and the humidity. But we have warm radiatiors. My poor garden is beaten and muddy and the strawberries are rotting. I will try to pick them tomorrow.
There will be more rain till Thursday... and on Saturday I am supposed to leave for my 9-day holidays in Britain. I do hope I will be able to leave! I am sleepy , sorry...(massive yawn), good night, be safe!
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09:28 pm
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Pre-bucketing pics
We are experiencing really a mighty bucketing - literally. The heavens opened in the morning and since then it has not stopped.
It reminds me strongly of the 2003 floods and yes, I am worried.
There is more: our hay harvest is gone. All was dry and ready to go home but there was a problem with a machinery, there was a delay and now all the work for nothing. We need hay for our cattle in winter and this may be a problem. There will be another hay harvest but there is always less grass.
We had two summer days before though. I have some pictures for you.
( Pictures here )The clouds are gathering...
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07:14 am
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Internet meme
If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
I got this from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kerravonsen
Yes, more than one and the world is a great place to live with them!
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08:48 pm
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Yum yum...
These days I have such a harvest every sunny day. I wanted to make a strawberry cake but...but we ate them all and on the spot.
There will be billberries soon, so the cake will be blue/black instead of red :-)
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08:31 pm
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Back from work...to work
Cambridge exams FCE today, 57 candidates. I had to get up at five again, and I had to go by car to the town. Ha, the advantage of being an early bird: empty roads, only some deer.I even found a luxurious place for parking.
Nothing disastrous happened but the place was cold. We were there 8 hours and we were not able to move very much, just walking here and there and watch the candidates during the papers. We had hot coffee and drank it all.
It was suny outside and I hurried home as soon as we cleaned the place and delivered the materials back safely.
To tell the truth, I wanted to put a blanket on the grass and sleep in the sunshine. Nothing like that.
First - mowing that grass, second - helping my husband with tidying some material in the garage. There was cold.
Now I have finished my fourth cup of coffee - usually I have two, which is good for my low blood pressure.
Tygr was waiting for me in the living room and discovered a new place for his grooming. This expression on his face speeks volumes.
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09:07 pm
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The Slogan Generator
| Vera. Love Every Bite. |  That pretty much sums you up! |
Aaaahhhhh...what is hidden inside me!!!!
(this one was easy to post, hahahahaha!)
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09:24 pm
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Exams!
The Cambridge Exams in our British Centre are in progress. It should have been a routine by now because I do it reguralry every June and December (8 years!) but no, I am always so nervous. It is a big responsibility. We ( my boss and my colleague and I) do not examine but the organising itself is very very demanding. There are about 200 candidates every half-year and we have to follow the strict rules and regulations set by the University of Cambridge. The exams (CEX for us) are only for the speakers of other languages - not English. If you are interested in more details, please visit www.britishcouncil.cz . Our centre is different, a small one and a Czech one, but we are very proud of it! I can´t resist to offer our own website: www.britskecentrum.cz
I have spent the whole Friday and Saturday as a supervisor, next Saturday I am an invigilator and 17th June I am a supervisor again. Lots and lots of paperwork plus normal work in the library. So far so good!
I love English! I really love English!!!!! But...I will be glad when the CEX are over...
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07:48 am
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A meme from entropy house
<!--Start Dewey Decimal Quiz Results--> <div style="padding:3px; text-align:center; width:350px; color: #646B00; background-color: #e0c000; border: 1px solid #945400"> <div style="margin:3px; padding:3px; color: #AD3D00; background-color: #FFEE8F; border: 1px solid #945400"> <span style="font-size:90%">Vera Jezkova's Dewey Decimal Section: </span><br> <span style="font-size:120%"> 999 Extraterrestrial worlds </span><br> <span style="font-size:80%">Vera Jezkova = 25810561521 = 258+105+615+21 = 999</span><br> <br><b>Class:</b><br> 900 History & Geography<br><br> <b>Contains:</b><br> Travel, biographies, ancient history, and histories of continents. <br><br> <b>What it says about you:</b><br> You're connected to your past and value the things that have happened to you. You've had some conflicted times in your life, but they've brought you to where you are today and you don't ignore it. </div> <a href="http://www.spacefem.com/quizzes/dewey" style="color: #707043">Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com</a> </div> <!--End Dewey Decimal Quiz Results-->
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07:44 pm
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One sunny day out of 10
Someone in the sky doesn´t like us here. Cold, cold, cold and rain and even snow again in the mountains. Monday was the only sunny day and I made some pictures.
( Here more pictures ),,,and a happy but still aggressive father Mulisák
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09:20 pm
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This one is for
sharpiefan :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEdGHJnnB0Q
I hope you will like it!
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08:54 pm
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Happy tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vREszfSV9k
Here is (hopefully) a sample from John Tams´ and Barry Coop´s gig - older one but still wonderfu. More on YouTube.
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01:17 pm
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Sentimental
I was cooking and watching our small TV in the kitchen. There was "Secret Garden" - a family film according to a novel I know from the library but that I always put aside as "sentimental". Ha! A almost burnt lunch, and ah, I cried soooooo nicely, what a silly, sentimental idiot I am!
However I enjoyed myself very much.
Um...these spells of "happy tears" are numerous: A nice picture, music , flowers, even a bidsong, and animals - cats always.
I hope I am not alone...or am I ? :-)
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08:53 pm
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Word meme
sallymn sent me these words, thank you, and I will try to comment on them shortly:
Flowers:
Somehow I can´t recollect the time without them. I was born and I grew up in the town but there were always flowers around. I loved - and still love! old paintings , mainly the oldest ones, that picture flowers. I wanted them around. I have built a garden of my dreams to have flowers. I love an English style of a garden, so colourful and natural! I have flowers in pots, in old buckets, and of course on the flowerbeds. There are always flowers in my flat. I love arranging flowers in various glasses or containers.
Flowers of all colours and shapes and scents. Also wild flowers, yes, these are wonderful.
I don´t need any presents but flowers. I love them.
Snow
I say that winter without snow is not a true winter here. Yes, we have quite harsh winters but less and less snow. Id it appears, then in extreme amounts. And I have to clean it.
Snow is a magic material. It is like a carpet of brilliants in the sun, bluish in the evening and pink at the sunrise. It is fluffy but also rock-hard. We build statues from snow, not only the snowmen but big animals or dinosaurs. My garden likes snow because it protects the plants against the freezing
Language
I am happy here. You use such a wonderful language. You teach me a lot! I can remember my beginnings here, I was afraid to communicate. Now I am not afraid any more. I still make mistakes - and will always, but I really try not to harm you language.
My own language is very different but also very beautiful. Pity, no one uses Czech, hahaha, of course, why. I had to laugh when one English friend of mine said that Czech language was SEXY. I have lots of films in English, TOS, B7, Sharpe, LOTR, more single ones. I am grateful for subtitles, this is very helpful.
I love songs both in Czech and English.
Last thing: If I had more time and will, I would study more languages!
Photos
My pride is a big collection of photos from my trips to Britain. My first visit was in 1996 and since then I have boon there 16 times! Photos just preserve those great moments there, lovely of interesting places and most of all people and everyday life. Only here I realised a need of a digital camera because I also wanted to post something nice or interesting. I like making photos - after all, I have got an intelligent camera, it does it all, I only choose the place or a situation.
Scifi
Aj aj, of course i like sci fi! Good old TOS, B7 my best. REally there used to be almost no chance in former socialist Czechoslovakia to find anything! I discovered TOS on Austrian TV, my poor German didn´t help much but it was enough to be smitten. And TOS was actually a true reason for me to study English. I just wanted to read the books which were not available in Czech. I have already spent a horrible amount of money on sci-fi, mainly on the zines!
Sci fi if a nice vision for me. No, no catastrophic scenario but an optimistic future including a meeting with and extraterrestrial civilisation which will be good and friendly. And still all is about people, or other beings, and their relations, I am not a technobabble fan, but i do love a good portion of clever science.
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06:58 am
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EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
3°C at five a.m., five now, the highest temperatures today are supposed to be 7°.
Some people were probably not able to switch over, I met some poor shivering creatures with bluish naked limbs. I want to be Tygr and be in bed ( he was there when I was leaving).
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