Thanks, Holly. What a relief. "g" stands for a grin und "ggg" for a (very) big grin for want of an emoji or if you can't be bothered to insert one. It's just faster.
Oh ok..well I've learned something new today lol...I just find it quicker to click on the simple emoji's on the reply box soooo, since my guess above... are you going to say where you're situated in the world.?
Of course, I am. I moved to Leipzig recently, if that rings a bell? Small town in the middle of nowhere.
For the time being, remember this, please: ....you must promise me one thing: never shall you ask me, nor trouble yourself to know, whence I journeyed, what my name is, or what my origin... More questions to come....
@Holly, hope you don't mind my more lighthearted reply. It just sprang to my mind. The answer is yes, you might take me for a German. Just out of curiosity, what made you think I might be from Germany? And what does it tell you?
@Thomas Stearn Welcome .................................................................................................................
Nothing it, tells me nothing..lol... I lived and worked in Germany for a short time over 20 years ago...but I don't know if you're German..I'm not sure tbh, because most Germans I've known haven't been so lighthearted .. polite, pleasant but not much fun..but I did suspect you might be German because you're English is much more British than American, but you used a word that's kind of gone out of fashion in the UK..when you said in your reply to Tim Burr..''just fancy'' when talking about your bike, so I guessed English wasn't your first language ..but maybe I'm wrong..maybe you're English in Germany and just old fashioned LOL.
Yes, you're right, I may be a bit old-fashioned and should stop reading ancient books. It kind of rubs off...No, I'm not English. Believe it or not, I did have a bad feeling when I was using the expression. I should be following my gut feeling much more often. Thinking about it, doesn't the time lag also give us a clue as to where a person might be located? Seems to me that at the time we were writing the people from across the ocean were still sleeping.
LOL, quite close. Actually, I'm a bit of an ornamental hermit and a woodgnome. ... rather the former...
yep our time is different by a large margin from across the pond, but there are a lot of nightbirds too, so you never can really tell...
Some of us are more nocturnal than others. Having spent most of my working life either working the graveyard shift or, while a paramedic, working sporadic hours, it's not unusual for me to go to bed after the sun has come up. In my old(er) age, I have learned that I feel better when I go to bed around midnight and get up early in the morning but, especially when I am working on something, I often work until daylight. Since I work on my computer, that means that I am in and out of the forum throughout the night.