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Sometimes you end up having the most bizarre conversations – a couple of weeks ago we were chatting to this young man and the conversation got on to what he liked to do with his free time, and what was he going to do the following day, which happened to be a Sunday. His reply rather took us aback, he said he liked to go pulling on Sundays. Really OK we replied. Yes he said – he always went pulling on Sundays until 5pm. We were both thinking along the same lines, and didn't really want too explore to deeply as it seemed a bit personal and why the 5pm cut off. He then asked if we liked to go pulling, I think we both looked a bit blank at this stage, so he proceeded to demonstrate his pulling technique – it turns out he was talking about.......... pool. He actually likes to play the game of pool on a Sunday and the pool place closes at 5pm. We felt a bit more able to join in the conversation then.

And then this afternoon on the way back from the butchers, this gentleman started chatting to me and said so you are footing then, you like to take exercise – I realised then that he meant "so you are walking". We did then move on to the subject of football, and he assures me he is going to be supporting England in the world cup, after all we all speak English. There is no point in him supporting Spain as they don't speak the same language.