Humpty, regional English dialects fascinate me. If I dropped into a local Derbyshire dialect someone from a neighbouring county may undersatnd me reasonably well but someone from a couple of hundred or so miles away would hardly undersatnd a word. Being used to Derbyshire I can place people to the town even though they are only a few miles apart by odd words they speak. Surely, in Russia you must be able to pick a person out from the region they come from by what they say.
Anyway, we are slightly off thread. I have just been sorting out my dates for the forthcoming pheasant shoots. Although the season starts on the 1st. October the first shoots aren't until mid November. We tend to take our time here and rarely rush out on the first day of the season. I think it is because the seasons are long no one seems in any hurry. Lagopus.....
