ach nao

as i've mentioned before, we've been watching a lot of foreign movies -- Poirot, Miss Marple, Islands At War, Foyle's War, Midsommer Murders.

oh sure, they aren't exactly foreign, i mean they do speak english. but sometimes it's hard to tell it's the same language i speak.

the latest movie to catch our interest was suggested by our in-laws (son's in-laws actually) -- a scottish series called Hamish Macbeth. this light-hearted and often very funny series about life and crime in a small scottish hamlet usually causes us to sit on the edge of our seats. that intense? no. we simply cannot tell what they're saying. for example: "ach mon, et'l bey a bluidy hairdship bet weel bey doon whut we mest, yeh ken?" only it's said a lot faster, sort of like this: "akmnelbbludhrdshpwlbdnwtwmsykn?" ahh ... right.

i have to say i totally love the two episodes we've seen so far, but it leaves me exhausted -- all that straining to understand the language. and we constantly have to back it up to re-listen. but, all-in-all i get a real kick out of it. it's nice to have a change from the intensity of the other series. yeh ken?