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Hello, Elle!
Your word "nesh"!
Fingers crossed it works!
http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/126236?__prclt=R8RncsVe

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, I know Chris Thompson......he is a familiar face on the running track.
Didn't he win last year, too?
And I think he won the Silver medal at Barcelona?
I thought that Gemma Steel was more of a cross country runner than a road racer?
But I could well have that wrong!
I really am sorry that I missed watching it....but I rarely check to see what is on Channel 5!
The Athletics programmes are rarely shown on there, are they?
Very breezy here, now.

Hello, Elle!
Yes, those names were slightly familiar.
It looked very breezy at Portsmouth!

Hi, Rusty!
Ooops!
I have only just noticed your post enclosing the link about "nesh".
Goodness me, what a lot of meanings!
And how very interesting!
I had no idea that the word had so many inferences.....
And I had only come across it previously used as an adjective.
I live and learn!

Hello, Elle!
"Nesh" is some word!
Some of the quotations are from many centuries ago, too.
What an awesome amount of research the OED does!
The OED Tweets me a word each day.
I find it fascinating.
A lovely afternoon here.
How's you and the bug getting on?

Hi, Rusty!
Thank you for enquiring about the bug and me!
Now, if I am honest and say I feel rotten.......you may think I am being "nesh"...... ie being a wimp!
So I shall simply admit that bug and I are not on the most cordial of terms!
Consequently, I have had a very lazy day!
Neither of us has felt like going out, so for once the dog has had to make do with just the garden - no walks!
No Sunday paper either!

Hello, Elle!
Bugs are not pleasant, therefore I sympathise!
You are doing the right thing by staying home.
I am sure you will survive without a Sunday paper!
Your Sunday 'phone call to your cousin will cheer you up, I am sure.
Or, 'phone your daughters?
I am sure they will have plenty news to tell you and take your mind off the bug!

Hi, Rusty!
I have just been talking to my cousin.
All are well up there, but they have been having very heavy winds and a lot of rain.
Fortunately, they have experienced no personal damage to self or property.
She was amazed to hear about the strange phenomenon with the red sun, and then yellow sky and ensuing "blackout" that we had!
She had, of course, heard about it on the News, but didn't realise that we had experienced it first hand.
Yes, I have spoken to both daughters earlier in the day!
We are always in regular touch!
It is most disappointing that we have had to postpone visits, but these things cannot be helped.

Hello, Elle!
That's good news regarding your cousin and the bad weather.
I read North England caught a bit of it.
No, you were very sensible postponing visits but with modern technology you are still close to them and can speak and see them.
Good news from Berlin!
Elinor Barker and Ellie Dickinson have won gold in the Madison event!
Lydia Ko was second in the Swinging Skirts golf tournament.
A South Korean woman won, Eun-Hee Ji, but she is new to me.
A good event though, and she won well.
I have finished "Die Hard, Aby".
It was very good.
"Die Hard" is the motto of the Middlesex Regiment.

Good morning, Rusty!
A dull slightly foggy morning here... and I think we are forecast rain.
I am staying at home today!
What are you up to?
The two British women did well to win the Madison cycling event.
So called, I think, after Madison Square Gardens in New York?
Well done, them!
Now tell me about "Die Hard, Aby".
Presumably about someone in the Middlesex Regiment being killed?
Was this in action?
I hope this is not a story where the soldiers are executed by their own side, for somehow "failing in their duty"?
Do you remember that terrible war book about that kind of happening?
I couldn't finish reading the book as I found it so distressing........
Now whatever was it called?
I think the word "Line" came into it?