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« Reply #2700 on: 20:43:27, 13-11-2007 » |
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"Tell Jarvis, Dorcas is willing."
A phrase that has stuck in my head. Was it Great Expectations? I think it was possibly 'Peggotty' and 'Barkis' and 'David Copperfield' but otherwise, yes.  Ooh, and I'm green with envy at both the barn owl and the stag too. How wonderful! (Though I'm still worrying a bit about the word 'hindsight' in connection with seeing the stag  ) I've never ever seen a barn owl for ANYTHING LIKE that long. Brief, precious, silent glimpses at the most. And they are incredibly silent when they fly, aren't they, even when very close like that? Something to do with the, er, feathers. Oh envy, envy, envy (in the nicest possible way of course). |
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« Reply #2701 on: 21:45:46, 13-11-2007 » |
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Mary Chambers, what a lovely picture of a Barn Owl Ive ever seen. Where was it taken?
I've no idea - I found it on Google Images, a site called www.blueskybirds.co.uk. I think you can buy the photos. It is wonderful, isn't it? |
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"Tell Jarvis, Dorcas is willing."
A phrase that has stuck in my head. Was it Great Expectations? I think it was possibly 'Peggotty' and 'Barkis' and 'David Copperfield' but otherwise, yes. I think you are right George, but who is this Jarvis and Dorcas what is lodged in me head? Am I thinking of Jarvis Cocker? Was he a character out of Bleak House or did he record This is Hardcore? Life is complicated sometimes. |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #2703 on: 23:00:24, 13-11-2007 » |
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A comment from my teaching assistant made me  today. After a child had accidentally confessed to a minor offence, my TA turned to me and said "Oo that was a bit of a fraudulent slip wasn't it!" Still not sure if she meant "Freudian slip" or not - anyone here ever heard of a "fraudulent slip"? |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #2704 on: 23:03:51, 13-11-2007 » |
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A teacher friend of mine always talks about "the sun shining on the riotous". I never know whether she's joking or misquoting..... |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #2705 on: 23:33:56, 13-11-2007 » |
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Aaaah. I realised a couple of months back that the lenses of my glasses had gone beyond the point where I could see really clearly through them - no change from my eyes, not even scratches on the lenses themselves, but some coating or other had worn down to the point where everything was blurred. During my frantic chalumeau-tidying I found the lenses that these lenses had replaced a couple of years back. Same prescription; I'd had the old ones changed because of a couple of scratches and the same problem with the coating but only in its beginning stages (and only at the edges whereas on the newer lenses it was spreading to the middle). So I've just replaced the newer ones with the older ones and everything's much clearer now. I'll need new ones soonish anyway but this is a very acceptable intermediate stage. |
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« Reply #2706 on: 11:10:35, 14-11-2007 » |
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A teacher friend of mine always talks about "the sun shining on the riotous". I never know whether she's joking or misquoting..... Milly, I had to think about that one for a while before the penny dropped  I think I prefer it to the original. I must try it out on someone soon |
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« Reply #2707 on: 11:23:37, 14-11-2007 » |
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A teacher friend of mine always talks about "the sun shining on the riotous". I never know whether she's joking or misquoting..... ... or just misprununcing, I suppose.  Re Jarvis and whatisname, it reminded me of: - Now we must choose, said Mercier.
- Between what? said Camier.
- Ruin and collapse, said Mercier.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2708 on: 11:30:32, 14-11-2007 » |
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I've not posted a picture of these chaps for a while. |
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« Reply #2709 on: 11:32:54, 14-11-2007 » |
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Gorgeous ! Ron, your photos are superb.
Mary, the Barn Owl pic was fab too....I saw him again yesterday evening x
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« Reply #2710 on: 11:35:36, 14-11-2007 » |
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A comment from my teaching assistant made me today. After a child had accidentally confessed to a minor offence, my TA turned to me and said "Oo that was a bit of a fraudulent slip wasn't it!" Still not sure if she meant "Freudian slip" or not - anyone here ever heard of a "fraudulent slip"? A former colleague of mine used to say the same thing. He definitely meant "Freudian slip"! I was amused by the irony of the error, as I was by a standard form we used to use at work on which the one misspelled word was "anomallies" (sic) |
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« Reply #2711 on: 11:40:48, 14-11-2007 » |
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Jan,
That's really great news about your owl: I've not seen one for ages, though they're certainly about: I hear them often. We're awash with buzzards here, though recently I've seen an increase in the smaller raptors. I'm just hoping that the private introduction of Red Kites about a hundred miles away will be sucessful: I miss them more than anything else from down south, and if we could have them here I'd be overjoyed.
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« Reply #2712 on: 11:44:28, 14-11-2007 » |
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fraudulent slip: an underskirt that gives the impression it will prevent strong light from shining through the garment, but actually completely fails to do so.
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« Reply #2713 on: 11:59:29, 14-11-2007 » |
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I'm just hoping that the private introduction of Red Kites about a hundred miles away will be sucessful They're really privatising everything these days, aren't they. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2714 on: 15:38:39, 14-11-2007 » |
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... or just misprununcing, I suppose. Please enlighten me TIN. How does one misprununce? |
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