March 20

Stand up against cancer

Last week he ran 30 k

When he came down the stairs he felt an ache in his legs.

She was sound of mind= clever

Pilgrimage >> pilgrims

He did the pilgrimage twice

The hills of Halle

850 teams with 3400 runners

Starting fee was more than €2500 per team

You have to pay in advance

They want to be sure that they get their money

One minute of silence for the cancer victims

The sense of oneness, belonging, connectedness

The money goes to cancer research to increase the chance of survival.

To cheer >> cheerleader

They can sing along

The weather was nice, no rain.

Ukrainian wooden eggs

 A bib = bavette

A ribbon for in the hair >> hairband

A wooden block for the pin of the cello

Shove >> slide

Wellies >> Wellington boots

Choir members pass away >> the group is thinning out.

They have not worked since last month

Many lorries (UK) = trucks ( US)

Lory is a typical name for a parrot

To mend clothes = sew up the holes

Afterschool care

Start anew >>  Clean up the cobwebs

The harbour >> the port

A dredger = ship that works with the bottom of the sea

Sea pilot = loods

The tides of the sea >> high tide / low tide

An offshore support ship

A ship crew works in the engine room

It is automatised

They make trenches

They can shatter small rocks

Morocco has many solar panels

Robotised

Sea quake >> earthquake

They can sabotage the cables

Generators for electricity

The postal pigeons are still very popular.

The graveyard shift = working at night, the night shift

I stepped with my big toe on a garden fork. It was bleeding heavily. I needed a tetanus shot.

Safety shoes

Safety goggles and earplugs and a helmet and a hairnet.

 Fabric = stof

Upholster = stoffeerder

Someone who covers frames of chairs and furniture

Christoforus =

George Ferris is the founder of a ferris wheel

Penny-farthing is a type of bicycle

A school assignment= school commission

bandage

I went to Ostend. My boyfriend turned 60 and we had breakfast and went to Ostend to an exhibition about Arno

We went for an hour and the n went to Bruges for a walk.

I drove to Germany to the factory.

A friend of mine

My heart skipped a beat

Invoice = factuur

A quote / quotation = offerte

German factories are specialized in gliders ( planes)

To fold the wings

Crossroads >> intersection

Roundabout

Cars that are not properly parked.

I taught him how to fly.

They filed a complaint

Gas explosion in an industrial zone

The tracing of the pipes

To excavate >> an excavator

He scratched the edge of the pipeline

You could smell the gas

Crane man >> crane operator

The pressure is 60kg per square cm >> cm2

Injuries

Firemen

Odorless >> you can’t smell it

In pipeline transportation, pigging is the practice of using pipeline inspection devices generally referred to as pigs or scrapers, to perform various maintenance operations.

The ratio

Steel burns

Spiral welded piper

The valve = ventiel / klep

Hydrogen = waterstof

Adapters

To extinguish an electric car

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