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Hello, girls. Nobody's here. Having a nice rest after an active weekend? Or on the contrary working hard after two days rest?

My daughter who lives in the Urals and her family spent their weekend exploring wonderful places in the mountains. I've just got some new pics. Here's one of them. Great, isn't it?

NatalyS

I had never been in the Urals, even so, I always wanted to go. My father family from Ural and he promised to take me there and show the family house.
So, I really appreciate your picture and waiting for more.
On the other hand, I promise to put picture of London Bridge in Arizona as soon as I have a little more time.

Моментик

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I had never been in the Urals, even so, I always wanted to go.

It's worth visiting, upon my word! Though it's not easy to live there, particularly in a big city like Yekaterinsburg: a lot of industrial enterprises hence lack of pure water and the air leaves much to be desired. Although Lipetsk is a great industrial center too many problems dealing with the environment have been settled recently.

I want to demonstrate you two more pictures of the Urals. My daughter and her family try to use every chance to see more beauties of the region.It's one of the nature-reserves.



Here you can see more pictures of the winter Urals
http://forum.say7.info/topic11349.html

Dear friends, help me, please. As a matter of fact I'm reading Danielle Steel's novel "Toxic Bachelors" now. You see I'm keen on her novels because of the language first of all, and the intrigue is always amusing too. It's but natural that the two words in the title are simple to understand separately, but the combination of them gets me, as far as the word toxic in this case might have a special meaning as compared with the original one. Is it the same as confirmed, elusive and old? Thank you.

Nataly, Danielle Steel explores the perils of dating, relationships, and love in a novel that takes us into the intoxicating, infuriating world of three charming single... men, also known as…Toxic Bachelors. They were the most daunting of bachelors.... So I guess that is why she is using the word Toxic...to keep sparks going, I guess... Also, these three men had problem with commitment until they met the right woman so their bachelorism came to the end. I think, another appropriate word to use would be "Incurable", though it got cured, good for them!

Esmira
Thank you, dear! It's great: you seem to share my fondness of the author. And you are quite right to interpret the word through the context it's used. More than that you analyze the main idea of the whole novel. I like this approach. But still are there any other meanings of the word beside ядовитый, токсичный, etc ? I'm too naughty, ain't I? Sorry.

Nataly, the word "Toxic" has no other meaning than ядовитый, токсичный when it comes to literal translation of it. However, if you would want to translate the name of the book with the meaning Danielle Steel put into it, it would be something like "Законченные/убеждённые холостяки". You see? No, you are not naughty at all, you are a good girl!

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Законченные/убеждённые холостяки".

Thanks a lot! I translated it the same way too. Great! In the context of the novel it sounds ironic, doesn't it?

You are more than welcome! Yep, it does. It should have been "Former Toxic Bachelors" then.

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should have been "Former Toxic Bachelors" then.

NatalyS

Pictures are so good! I followed the link and discovered winter Urals - really fantastic!

Esmira - interesting interpretation. Have to read this book.

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Pictures are so good!

Thank you. The winter pictures were made by my daughter and her husband. They drive to different interesting places in the area every weekend.
I think they'll e-mail more.

I'd like to share with you a very interesting history story I'd learned recently.
We were visiting Lake Havasu, Arizona and admiring real London Bridge in the middle of the desert. Well, not exactly of course... . Let say in the oasis on the Colorado river.
The story is this bridge was build in London in 1831 by John Rennie . Then, in 1962 it was sold to American real estate developer and the oil company owner Robert McCulloch, who was the founder of Lake Havasu. Who brought this bridge to Arizona!
The bridge facing stones were carefully disassembled and each piece was numbered, and then re-assembled.
The reconstruction took slightly over three years and was completed in late 1971
Here is the London Bridge.



and from another side


and how it might look in the London

Моментик
Really great! a very interesting story which proves again and again that Americans never lose any chance to bargain at the expence of Europe But they themselves did a big job too. So we can't say that they don't contribute to world culture, in this case to architecture.
Do you remember this lovely song beginning with "London bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down
London bridge is falling down, my fair lady".
I like it very much and sometimes sing it to my granddaughter Nataly.
Let's hope that this wonderful construction will never fall down.

Hello ladies, I hope you all are doing fine

NatalyS, the photos from Ural are awesome. I can imagine this is only a small part of the beauty that you can see there...

Моментик, I haven't even heard about the London bridge story before, very interesting, thanks for sharing it with us! [/b]

Irina F.
Thanks, darling! Glad to see you.

Irina F. Thank you, Irina, I thought girls from England would appreciate this story.
It is awful quite here lately... .

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You know what kind of candy? ГУСИНЫЕ ЛАПКИ from Moscow РОТ ФРОНТ!!!

Darling, it's amusing but my husband bought the candies though we don't often buy any sweets not to tempt ourselves. This is the picture.



I wish I treated you to some tasty Russian sweets in reality.

Nataly, you are so sweet! Thank you so much for your kindness! I, from the other hand, do not have any problem having candies around as I will eat only one with my unsweet tea once in a while. I also have some candies at work to treat myself with unsweet coffee. I know it sounds weird but it is coming from Azerbaijanian tradition and I am so glad I partially grew up there. My kids have the same habit because of that as well though they are Киевляне.

As to Russian candies being tasty I have no doubts. Unfortunately, our candies are not as tasty as so many other things so I treat myself by going to Russian store once in a while and making Russian fiesta after. I am buying mostly: варенье, конфеты, копчёную рыбку, гречку, сыр, шпроты... The reason I consider this as a treat because I go there only 2 - 3 times a year which is good as хорошего понемножку. Anyway, I crack myself up here and better stop. Thank you for cheering me up this Friday morning!

Esmira
It's my pleasure.

Hi, girls, I see, it still busy here in the English speaking room, I'm back!
Nataly- pictures of Ural are magnificient! Narure is so beautiful here, nothing can spoil it!
Моментик
The history of London bridge is very interesting! As I remember, Liberty monument also came from Europe to America

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pictures of Ural are magnificient!

Thank you, darling. Glad to see you!

Elita
Thank you and

Цитата:

Liberty monument also came from Europe to America

-you are absolutely right!

девочки как произносить правильно вот это слово:Tableware?

Кристина, я попробую ответить на твой вопрос. ТЭЙБЛ... скадываем губки под произношение буквы У и добавляем ...ВЕР

Тут лучше один раз услышать пожалуй. Успеха тебе.