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Haruka, Bournemouth is a seaside town not so far from where I live and popular as a holiday destination (it also has a huge number of English schools where young people come for short courses).

Pooh is a lovable bear of very little brain. I think he is from the south of England but I don't know exactly where.

Finally, you weren't dreaming. A lot of suvverners (southerners) pronounce their 'th's like 'f' (unvoiced th as in Thursday) and 'v' (voiced as in southerner - but not as an initial sound in this case...I don't think... not sure). Whaddaya fink abou' dat?

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Hello, everyone.
I think I have many responses overdue.
I taught my students "Editorial Style" which they have to follow to write an essay. I told them about indenting, paragraphing, and double space. This is why Mayumi found a difficulty on this board. Now I have tried to use magic words Jo told. I don't know if I have applied correctly.
Bournemouth? Pooh? What are they all about? I am out of the loop.
Benly.Regarding f-words, Japanese have no such counterpart as spoken so frequently like interjections. Of course we have rude utterance but it is more meaningful than English casual expletives.
Duane, let me supplement what Mayumi said. When she said "base" she meant a military base. These days, commanders are trying to make friend with neighboring citizens.
Jo, enlighten me. I was half sleep when I heard a teacher on a radio program said, Beckham as a native Sussex omits "g" at the end when he pronounces "amazing". OK, that's plausible. But he kept on saying that in pronouncing Thursday he tends to say "Fursday". It's hardly likely. I must have been in my dream. Any suggestion (except for a sleeping pill)?

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Hi Jo: Thanks for your good wishes
You can have the USA back if your promise to take The Dixie Chicks over there on the other side of the pond.
Thank you also, Mayumi. I did enjoy my 4th of July Holiday. I did not have to work. We usually go away for a short vacation this time of year but this year we decided to stay home and we had a little party at our home. We invited some friends over for a swim and barbeque and after it got dark we walked over to a local high school and watched the community fireworks show. It was a lot of fun and we all had a good time. I understand (wakarimasu)you when you say you feel a closeness to us on this holiday. I am glad to know that you feel that way. I hope that someday you can come to California and I can show you some of the beautiful parts of my country. I can help you with your English and you can help me with my Japanese.
I'm glad that you enjoyed the pictures of my neighborhood. I don't live in the big city. I live in the suburbs. It is very nice here and I like it. My home is near to Sacramento, but it is far enough away so we do not get all the traffic and noise that goes with a big city. I look forward to seeing pictures of your neighborhood on Jo's Photo Gallery.
Bye for now (Sayonara)

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I read a funny article on the paper and would like to share it with you all.

The Americans call him a eating machine, his name is Takero Tsumami Kobayashi from Japan, he is this year’s Hot-Dog-Eating champion for the third time in America.

He ate the first hot dog in only five seconds and in the first two minutes he ate 13 hot dogs. He ate a total of 44.5 hot dogs in a 12 minutes contest, that means he ate one hot dog in 16 seconds.

What surprises me is his body size, he only has 145 pounds and 5’6” tall, but the runner-up is three times bigger than him from the hot dog eating country America. He is 420 pounds and 6’6” tall, but he could only manage to eat 30.5 hot dogs in the competition and one thing, the Japanese hero only has a 30” waist. I really don’t know how he could manage to store all 44.5 hot dogs in his stomach. I suppose they came in at one entrance and went straight out at the exit.

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Hi Mayumi. This message booard doesn't recognise the paragraph breaks you put in by pressing [return]. There will be a new and better message board one day...! This message board recognises a code called HTML (this is the code you use to write webpages). You can type the 'less than' sign followed by the two letters 'BR' followed by the 'more than' sign to insert a line break. Then type the same again for a second line break to give the effect of paragraphing. Or just keep your messages short and don't worry about paragraphing! And in answer to your question, I live in Southampton. It's about a 45 minute drive from Bournemouth and an hour or so from London.

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I write to have some paragraph. But I don't have some paragraph on Internet. How do I have it? Please, someone teaches me way to have it!!