56!

Yes, seaweed is good, and widely used where I live (Also not an expert though). It’s best to let the rain wash some of the salt away first though.

Cuddle my cats.

All I can think of is:

• Some especially scary cat
• An escaped dog

City suburbs are prime fox territories. Where I used to live you would easily see multiple foxes per night if you looked out of the window for 5 minutes. There were many cats about (including our own), and never heard of foxes causing any issues for cats.

That’s how I still do it. My phone is too old for the app. It only comes up for larger payments though.

What?

I can still barely understand the dialect where I have now lived for ~4 years. I can just about follow the topic of the conversation if I focus hard enough. And this is in the same country that I grew up in (Scotland).

It’s a very isolated place, which has allowed the old language to survive till now, though it’s only the older people that still speak it, and even then it’s likely still closer to english than their parents spoke.

In the larger towns nearby, the dialects have turned into an accent, with a few “cool” or useful words sprinkled in. The dialect here however, has different vowel and consonant sounds, maybe 30-50% different words (I’m just guessing), and a slightly different word order. Sadly it will die out in the next decade or so.

I guess this is pretty normal in some parts of the world, but quite rare in english.