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May your fingers never falter.

It's hard to believe this is only your first forumbirthday!

Happy first forumversary!

HAPPY FORUMVERSARY
MAY YOU LONG CONTRIBUTE TO THE FORUM!!

Wow, a year already. The time has flown by.
Keep on stitching!

Regards

Richard.

Wishing you many many more years of beautiful stitching!!!


Carole

Happy Forumversary, Podolyanka!

Thank you all for your kind greetings. The year really has flown away very fast. It seems only yesterday I was reading your welcome to the Forum words. This is a nice and busy place- every day one learns something new- in my case apart from stitching secrets I have learnt quite a few new words and expressions (can't help it- a foreigner never stops learning the language). This Forum is also very helpful, caring and supporting. And it is people that make it special. On the occasion of my first anniversary I wish you all many happy and healthy decades of crafting ahead.

It is rare, very rare, for you to write anything that reminds me you're not a native English speaker. Your English is so good that it doesn't even have the 'very correct' feel of someone who is knowlegable but not comfortable in the language.

I so wish I was as fluent in a language other than English. I can 'communicate' in French, but that is the best I can say; it's hard work for me and the person I am communicating with.

Regards,

Richard.

HAPPY FORUMVERSARY LYUDMILLA

Gosh that year flowed by quickly, I hope you will be around for many moe anniversaries.

Thank you, Sally. To me this year also has flown away like a minute.

Richard, thank you very much for your kind comment. You are the first person who has touched upon this theme. And my request to you and to the rest of the Forum inhabitants- if you see a mistake (not a mistype, but a real mistake) in my posts, please, be so kind as to let me know. Explanations are welsome and will be highly appreciated.

Happy stitching!

richardandtracy wrote:It is rare, very rare, for you to write anything that reminds me you're not a native English speaker. Your English is so good that it doesn't even have the 'very correct' feel of someone who is knowlegable but not comfortable in the language.

I so wish I was as fluent in a language other than English.

Just want to echo Richard's feedback about your English. He is especially right with his comment that it doesn't have the feeling of being "very correct". It sounds very natural. You must be able to think in English when you are posting. I once was pretty good in Spanish, but now I'm sure I wouldn't be able to communicate in that language at all. And I certainly wouldn't be as fluent.

Carole

Thank you, Carole, for your kind comment. And yes, when you have to speak and listen to/read English, you start thinking in it.

I am sure that if you meet some Spanish native speakers and simply have to talk with them, you will be surprised how quickly your knowledge and skills in Spanish will be back.

Happy forumversary

Thank you, Vanessa.

I do hope some day (in this life) we will have some orange juice at the pub in front of the duckpond in Aldbury or round the corner of their old school in Berko. If we meet at the "Three Horse Shoes" near a swinging (correct word for the bridge which turns?) bridge in Boxmoor, we will feed swans and ducks without standing up from the table. Or we may run into each other accidentally near or in the Hobbycraft in Bedford. As a Ukrainian proverb goes, "Mountains never meet, people do".

Happy Forumversary, Podolyanka!

Thank you, Karen

Congratulations