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Hello Forkers - February 2018

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  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410

    Snap Wonky image  Just been and topped up bird feeders too......but my dressing gown is blue image

  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541

    Second coffee due here Chicky image lovely that your seed sowing today! I've just been inspecting my mystery planter that got all the assorted bulbs that I found in it....beginning to be able to identify what I planted now! image

  • I've just sorted through my chest of drawers and thrown away all the clothes that are past it ... some in the bin and some are in the studio to use as paint rags  image  

    I had to do it because I couldn't shut the drawers image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Dove ....just rummaging through your drawers......

    and was just checking your use of the s' ....thought you guys would like this from a paddy image 

    Saw this in an old  English language book and here is why I love the language ........I use this as an example of how rich and exciting it really is

     As I (a) round the corner of the building , I reflect that our (b) round world spins (c) round and (d) round on its axis ,at the same time making a circle (e) round the sun that results in the (f) round of the season

    a ....verb ...express action

     b.....adjective ...modifies world .

    c and d...adverb .....modifies the verb spins.... 

    e.......preposition ......shows the relationship between two nouns ......circle and sun 

    f.....and finally the noun ......

  • Oh ....I forgot ....the operative word ...is ROUND ......who's ROUND is it ?image

  • Ma would continually correct people who used 'round' in conjuction with 'spin'.  You don't spin 'round', you spin 'around' ........ that's what the nuns taught her ....  as in 'Around the World in 80 Days'.  


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Dovefromabove says:

    Ma would continually correct people who used 'round' in conjuction with 'spin'.  You don't spin 'round', you spin 'around' ........ that's what the nuns taught her ....  as in 'Around the World in 80 Days'.  

    See original post

     So Dove ....you would spin me around as opposed to round your finger? image

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    I don't spin.  I pivot!  Had loads of fun with my scientists getting them to accept that English is fluid enough to make google with a little g a verb and not a company.

    Sunny here now after a very wet night - another 12mm.  

    About to have lunch and then take the doggies to the beach.

    Good to see you back again Chicky.   Love that film too LP.  Saw it at the cinema and again a couple of times since.

    Happy seed sowing and growing for all those who've started.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093

    No, Dacha, you'd be wrapped around her finger. Gordon Sumner was an English teacher so you have to take his word for it image

    Last edited: 11 February 2018 13:23:44

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Ohh my god .....you girls are making a home alone man very happy indeed .....image

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