Byeeeee! Ex-mystery man off on holiday

I'll be with you again in roughly a month. Tomorrow I set off for Harlech in North Wales with stops in Antwerp (Belgium) and Dover, Peterborough and Cambridge (England).



Dennis

Are you married?

I was asked if I were married. (You can see I was a teacher..) I was asked: "Are you married?"

Yes - to the lovely Anke.

This is a recent photo of Anke, me and Nils too.

Nils too? Who is Nils too?

Nils too is the twin brother of Nils. (See below). You will be hearing more about Nils too in due course.

Questions and answers

Your mystery guest as he looked in 1951 - 2nd. row from the back, 3rd. from the left, next to the boy with glasses


Questions and answers
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My first name means 'God of wine', which explains why I like it so much. My version of the name has 6 letters, two of them are the same and the fifth letter is i

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DENNIS
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2. I live in the country that produced three great cars.
a. Clue :'Yesterday' 'Will you still need me, when I'm 64?'

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BEATLE - sounds the same as BEETLE (VW - Volkswagen)
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b. Clue: Two back RQTUEJG

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PORSCHE
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c. Clue CREEDS ME

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MERCEDES
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3. So? The country is: ANGRY ME-----

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GERMANY!
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4. I was born and went to school in: ...g....-----

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ENGLAND
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5. My favourite food is:GYVVC
Clue: minus 5 -----

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CURRY
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6. One of my favourite groups is "Female ruler of an independent national state."-----

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QUEEN
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7. I love SPRUCE TOM (and my wife, of course.)

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COMPUTERS
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The Mystery guest

aka (also known as):

Dennis John Newson

A few more details at:

Carla's CTJ students star in new film

Meet Nils too

You've met Nils, so I thought you might like to meet his brother - Nils too.

Nils - a bit of harmless nonsense

A bit of nonsense. Something I made for my granddaughter.

SECRETS OF GOD OF WINE REVEALED!

There is a saying in German that may shock you. Roughly translated it is:

Guests are like dead fish. If you keep them too long, they begin to smell.


Well, I don't know about guests, but so-called secrets aren't very interesting after a while. I have been appearing here in cognito
long enough.



READ ALL ABOUT HIM!
SECRETS OF DENNIS GOD OF WINE REVEALED!

Go to:

What's it like living in Germany?

Brandenburg Tor Berlin 2006

Here is one way of answering the question (Sergio's?) - What is it like living in Germany?

Here is a Bubbleshare presentation. Make sure your sound is on.


A Saturday morning in Osnabrueck

I go on holiday for three weeks next Sunday

The photo is of the estuary in Harlech, Wales where I'll spend most of my holiday

Erika and Carla and all the 'Carlaites'.

I just wrote this in reply to a comment from Erika, but thought you might not all find it there. So this is a version to appear in the main part of the blog.


Sergio, I think it was (and apologies if it was someone else) asked me what it was like living in Germany. So I took my camera with me when my wife and I went to the market in the centre of town yesterday and I'm putting the results in a Bubbleshare presentation, a link to which you will get later today.

A week today I go off to England and Wales for three weeks on holiday.

I think I must lead you to the answers to my quiz.

(1) "Minus 3" or "Plus 5" is a very simple code. To see what the words are you go backwards or forwards in the alphabet.

TVOEBZ (Minus 1) means go backwards one letter in the alphabet:

SUNDAY

Got it? (This is what young English kids say all the time, meaning: "Do you understand?)

(2) The rest of my questions, I think, are anagrams, the letters of the word re-arranged haphazardly (in no particular order). Don't fry your brains trying to guess the answers, just go to:

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

type in what I have written, and you should be able to find the word or words that are the ones I mean in the list produced.

Mince pies

Did I really mention mince pies?


Mince pies

Here is what they look like.

Mince pies


And here is how they are made. They are very popular in England at Christmas. They have got nothing to do, not any more at least, with minced (ground up) meat.

And you need to know how to make mincemeet.

Mincemeat recipe

For those of you with a thirst for information, for more knowledge , Mr. Google (search) will definitely be able to quench it.

Dennis the mystery man's favourite food

My favourite food

Here we are. I'm almost TELLING you what my favourite food is.

It tastes much nicer than it looks.

Dennis the mystery man

Our Top Flex Group

The students in the Video:

Sérgio, generally not shy! A respected psychologist.

Antônio, the drummer and a wonderful student.

Ramon, the biologist and Carioca (from Rio de Janeiro)

Rodrigo, the funniest guy ever. Just joined the group.

Carmen, who loves the postal service! She's dying to know about your favorite food...

Salejandra, the advertiser, a very funny woman!

Karen, the architect and a very nice student.

José Henrique, a very dedicated student and also an architect.

Alexandre, who is reading the Economist!!! He needs to learn English fast for professional reasons.

Lísias and Marina were not in class, and Leolita was shy to record the video! I'll see if I can record a video with them. They are fantastic students!

Our Top Flex Group - Saying Hi to the Mystery Guest

Welcome, Mystery Guest!

Dear students,

Our mystery guest is here and your task is to solve the riddle. You can ask the mystery guest questions to find out who the person is, where the person comes from, what the guest likes, etc...

Let's start and have some fun!

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1. My first name means 'God of wine', which explains why I like it so much. My version of the name has 6 letters, two of them are the same and the fifth letter is i .

2. I live in the country that produced three great cars.
a. Clue :'Yesterday' 'Will you still need me, when I'm 64?'
b. Clue: Two back RQTUEJG
c. Clue CREEDS ME

3. So? The country is: ANGRY ME-----

4. I was born and went to school in: ...g....-----

5. My favourite food is:GYVVC
Clue: minus 5 -----

6. One of my favourite groups is "Female ruler of an independent national state."-----

7. I love SPRUCE TOM (and my wife, of course.)


The Mystery guest