I Trazuar: "Boisterous" In Albanian

Just In Case You Ever Need It -
BOOJUM! would hate to feel you absolutely had to know what to say to your Albanian hosts when they enquire about your dog, and the words just weren't there.
     Anyway, back to boisterous.  This word has been used to describe Edna Wunderhund, but where does it originate?
     "Boistous", apparently, an Old English word derived from the Norman* "Bustous" meaning "rough" and which was adapted into "Boisterous", meaning ""noisy or energetic".

Edna not being boisterous

Tinchebray
Why, mind, why?  Why do you throw up all these peculiar words and phrases at random?  This happens so frequently I don't have time to listen to the voices in my head.
     Anyway, "Tinchebray".  Sounds Scottish, doesn't it?

Tinchebrays in their natural habitat.  Perhaps.

     Wrong!  It's actually Norman**.  It refers to a department now called Tinchebray-Bocage, which should immediately inform you that it's in Normandy, and it was the scene of a major battle between the English and the Normans in 1106.  I am rather afraid, in these times of European harmony, that the Normans got a right shoeing, their Duke and several major nobles being captured whilst their hoi polloi were pretty much hacked down en masse.

"Fight!"

     These were the times, you see, when the English king could decide to stave off boredom by invading France, and re-establishing his claim to various bits of it.  The French usually got a proper lamping and had to accept terms with bad grace.  

Prey
The Michael Crichton novel, remember?  Finished it this morning and did jib at one phrase Mike puts in: "Glass is a liquid", which is a pretty bald assertion to make.  Conrad recalls the days when he hung out at the JREF Forum and remembers two members arguing about whether glass was a liquid or not.  They went on for pages and pages; I remain unsure if they actually resolved the question or not.  So making an assertion, Mike, is not a defencible position.
     At one point in the narrative a character mentions a "Globe check Valve" and Conrad had to check and see what this is.  After that statement about glass I'm watching you, Mike, I'm watching you.

Globe check valve; a real thing

     As I mentioned, Mike wrote this dire warning about 13 years ago and as yet we have not been reduced to an organic soup six miles deep over a dead planetary core -

 - Yet.

 Enough With Facebook's Suggested Posts!
As if the "Log Counting Software" and the "Portable Sawmills" weren't enough irrelevant silliness, there's been "Equestrian Leather Work" and "Musical Notation Software".  Now the fools suggest "Professional Dance Experience Ltd", offering dancing lessons.
     Conrad is large, ungainly and can manage to be spectacularly clumsy at times, to the extent that he would be grateful to have two left feet.
     Lessons about dance?  Are they kidding?

A mishearing of -

Tea
If you read any of the scrivel that gets posted on the blog, then you will know that the divine liquid known as "Tea" plays a large part in Conrad's daily life, especially at weekends and on holidays.

The weapon of choice

     This one holds over two pints of tea, although because the handle-seals leak it only gets filled to the 2 pint point.  One problem is that the handle can't be left in any arrangement but straight up as otherwise it won't fit under the tea cosy.
     UNTIL TODAY!

     This new, roomier cosy allows the handle to be stored in any orientation.  This good news balances out the bad:

RIP Strainer

     The weld holding it in place must have been weak, I only tapped it and it fell apart.
     :(
     I do seem to be getting through tea strainers excessively quickly.

Edna - be boisterous - 

     Dog Buns!



* Dog Buns!  Coincidence strikes again ... 
** See?