12:24 Jul 7, 2011 

Maybe your broadband's a bit slow today. Mine is pretty much every day. It comes with the scenery, but the scenery's worth it. Try one of two things: either click the link then pause the vid and do something else while you leave it to download a while, or just type "Everything is ok"+"montage" on your search engine and see if you can get a better download on some other video site. And sorry again if I drove you nuts with all the pointless remarks the other evening. :O)

10:44 Jul 7, 2011 

- at least I can't get it to work on my PC. The page comes up but the vids don't play... do you need to subscribe or something?

20:41 Jul 5, 2011 

Wonderful stuff.
Sorry I've missed all the fun here. Family duties (school holidays are hard work).
About these grapes (remember them?): I was doubtful about the Italian "bric" interpretation, partly for the reason Pat mentioned some hours ago: normally wine grapes and table grapes are different things. However, if there's an Italian connection in the ST it sounds a bit more plausible. In fact I'm not sure whether "bric" is actually a variety (like Shiraz or Tempranillo). In a glossary of terms used on Italian wine labels, I find this:
"Bricco, Bric (bric’ coh; brick) — northern Italian dialect for “ridge” or “slope,” presumably to indicate a superior location."
http://www.winewordswisdom.com/italianwines_old.html
So maybe "bric", to an Italian, means a quality that grapes have because of the location where they're grown, and maybe that quality is applicable to table grapes as well. This is probably irrelevant by now, but still.

18:42 Jul 5, 2011 

But don't smile too much. Remember, it's bad for the economy!
Better shut it now, Neil's going to hate me.

18:10 Jul 5, 2011 

I have absolutely no idea why you posted that link, but I thought it encapsulated the best and worst of England, and it brought eight minutes of happiness to my otherwise joyless existence.

17:51 Jul 5, 2011 

;)

17:41 Jul 5, 2011 

for some of the better wasted minutes of my day today. I shall be walking the same streets on Saturday, hope they are still there!

17:08 Jul 5, 2011 

17:06 Jul 5, 2011 

I dare you... :O) I've actually found that Italian is in fact almost exactly the same as Spanish providing you've got enough alcohol in your bloodstream.

16:06 Jul 5, 2011 

Too many "rayos UVA" last weekend, I'm afraid. That's nothing - this text also includes 2 whole sentences (62 words) in Italian. Not one of my working languages but which I'll tackle with Google and customary aplomb. This (French) client actually once asked me if I would translate from Italian, saying "it's more or less the same as Spanish"... :))

16:05 Jul 5, 2011 

Should we report it? :)

16:01 Jul 5, 2011 

less speed when multi-tasking. I confused pat with eski from another query I looked at earlier. And why are you using Alvaro's photo?

15:52 Jul 5, 2011 

:P

15:49 Jul 5, 2011 

This grape de primera?

15:36 Jul 5, 2011 

Are for eating fresh, not making wine.

14:51 Jul 5, 2011 

now that you mention it, it probably does mean the Bric variety, which I was unaware of, being more used to Spanish wines. The grower in question is from Puglia.

14:41 Jul 5, 2011 

There is an Italian red wine grape variety called Bric, but it seems a bit doubtful whether it could be referring to that...