EDP

[Bruxinha]

Thanks for the support eco/spider. However, don't "butter me up" too much, as I don't know if you have been reading the posts between Ellie and I recently, but there is already a suspicion on the forum that you and I could in some way be distantly related

[digger]

hmmm yes just as I thought ….. e/s and bruxi .. as thick as thieves

[Bruxinha]

Thieves perhaps isn't a good word at the moment bearing in mind the chat going on on the other forum topics

Anyway, we'd better stop this or we will be told off for digressing from the very serious topic of paying EDP bills...whoops

[Aardvark]

EDP have on line submission for meter reading but last time I tried they were having technical problems. You can text them your reading as per instructions on back of recent bills. Seems to work OK. Instructions are in Portuguese but easy to follow.
All for learning Portuguese but why is it when you go into a shop for one of those thingies that fits under the whatsit at the back of the doodah you can never think of the right Portuguese word. Also what hope is there when the Portuguese for pull is pronounced push and the pronunciation for dog is cow

[Bruxinha]

Then the trick Aardvark is to do what I do...use 10 to 20 words to describe the one simple thing you want...you get there in the end....that is if they haven't walked away to serve someone else with boredom

By the way if any of you have trouble with words that end in "ão" e.g. Portimão, cão, não etc, try saying the English word "frown" and take the "own" part and substitute it. Apparently I have been told the reason English speakers have trouble is because there are no nasal vowels in English. There are I believe only one or two words that are nasal in English...onion and anchor...??

Sorry, digressed again, but being an ex TEFL teacher old habits die hard