A perfect day to meet you my friends. It seems to me that an eternity has passed since the last time I wrote here. The way it is. The routine of everyday life dragged me in so much that it was not possible to write at least a couple of lines. And so I want to tell you a lot. So I want to share with you various interesting moments of my life. I hope that I will have such an opportunity.
This year has been a fairly warm winter. The air temperature is within ten degrees of heat. At the beginning of winter, we were very lucky with this when our gas boiler broke down. And before the New Year, my rose and lilac bloomed. Amazing winter. I hope that frosts will not come in March.
And during this time, while I was not here, we had another member of our family. It's a cat named "Bandit". Some people threw him out as a little boy in a field last summer, and other people found him. Then these people were looking for new owners for him. So we met with him.
And so basically nothing has changed. Work, home, home renovation. When we started to make repairs, it seemed to us that it was easy, simple and fast. Yeah. Our refurbishment is now in its second year. And there is no end in sight. But it's not scary.
OK. I have to go. Now we will mount the furniture. In the following stories, I will tell you about our adventures and travels. It was a pleasure to see you all.
Hello again!
Do you live in Slovakia or in Uzhhorod, Ukraine or somewhere else?
Ah, I read your profile further. Slovakia. Close to the border?
Hello. I live in Slovakia, far from the Ukrainian border.
I remember you talking about moving to Slovakia many years ago when we were still on the old chain.
You mentioned it's been quite warm very recently. I guess you have saved a lot on energy costs.
Oh yes!))) As it was a long time ago. And it's a pity that I don't have so much time to come here more often.
I hope your relatives and friends in Ukraine are fine.
Thanks a lot. Our relatives are fine, thank God.
I'm glad to hear that.
By the way, is it correct that most people in West Ukraine are Ukrainian-speaking? Maybe not in Uzhhorod but in general. Are you?
I've been meaning to ask a speaker of Ukrainian how well he/she can understand Slovakian without any prior study. From what I've read, Ukrainian shares 60% of its vocabulary with Russian, 70% with Polish, 85% with Belarusian and 66% with Slovakian. Is the difference between shared vocabulary regarding Slovakian vs. Russian large enough to be noticeable?
Finnish and Estonian share 45% of their vocabulary and I can tell you that having no training in Estonian, I can often tell what a newspaper article is about but fail to grasp the gist of it not to mention most of the details. It's too much when less than half of the words you can guess and the rest are all Greek.