Comments on: An eventful day http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/ Just another WordPress blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:52:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Alison http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/#comment-9529 Alison Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:14:49 +0000 http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/#comment-9529 My kids are mostly through a long phase of tying things to other things (I only recently removed a tights' leg from the bannisters, which has been there for years), but the other day I was in the garden hanging out the clothes when down came a blackbird and pecked ... no, no, start again .... hanging out *some washing* when I suddenly noticed a Barbie car being lowered out of Violet's window. Later when I looked, the car had gone, but a Barbie doll was suspended a couple of feet from the ground. We watched an anaconda (iirc) giving birth once (on telly) - quite amazing. My kids are mostly through a long phase of tying things to other things (I only recently removed a tights’ leg from the bannisters, which has been there for years), but the other day I was in the garden hanging out the clothes when down came a blackbird and pecked … no, no, start again …. hanging out *some washing* when I suddenly noticed a Barbie car being lowered out of Violet’s window. Later when I looked, the car had gone, but a Barbie doll was suspended a couple of feet from the ground.

We watched an anaconda (iirc) giving birth once (on telly) - quite amazing.

]]> By: Bob http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/#comment-9519 Bob Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:02:14 +0000 http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/#comment-9519 Excellent quotes from the wikipedia entry on accordions: Famous anti-accordion comments include: "A gentleman is a man who can play the piano accordion... and doesn't", "The best way to play the piano accordion is with a pen-knife" (attributed to Christy Moore) and "An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of the assassin" (From Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary). Excellent quotes from the wikipedia entry on accordions:

Famous anti-accordion comments include: “A gentleman is a man who can play the piano accordion… and doesn’t”, “The best way to play the piano accordion is with a pen-knife” (attributed to Christy Moore) and “An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of the assassin” (From Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary).

]]> By: Beardie http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/#comment-9518 Beardie Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:57:11 +0000 http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/#comment-9518 Surely a REAL grammar pedant would have an omelette of which one managed "not to" make too much of a pig’s ear. Latin didn't have split infinitives, so neither should we. As the old saying goes, it's too much up with which to put. (Sarcasm). Lest there be any doubt (would that there were no doubt at all!) - indeed, with all doubt having been eradicated - I'm not actually a great fan of Latin dictating what we supposedly "should" do in English. Re accordion: am completely out of touch/practice (and never was much good anyway), though I keep threatening to get it out of the cupboard for our little one to liven us up with. Oh, sorry, with which for our little one to liven us up. No, no, up with which for our little one to liven us. See, it doesn't work... Surely a REAL grammar pedant would have an omelette of which one managed “not to” make too much of a pig’s ear.

Latin didn’t have split infinitives, so neither should we. As the old saying goes, it’s too much up with which to put. (Sarcasm). Lest there be any doubt (would that there were no doubt at all!) - indeed, with all doubt having been eradicated - I’m not actually a great fan of Latin dictating what we supposedly “should” do in English.

Re accordion: am completely out of touch/practice (and never was much good anyway), though I keep threatening to get it out of the cupboard for our little one to liven us up with. Oh, sorry, with which for our little one to liven us up. No, no, up with which for our little one to liven us.

See, it doesn’t work…

]]> By: HelenHaricot http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/#comment-9517 HelenHaricot Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:06:52 +0000 http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/#comment-9517 I am often tempted by an accordian. I have a friend that was a world something or other at the accoridan, and she was fab, but I always felt intimidated by it. I would like one to learn carols on!! I am often tempted by an accordian. I have a friend that was a world something or other at the accoridan, and she was fab, but I always felt intimidated by it. I would like one to learn carols on!!

]]> By: Sarah http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/#comment-9515 Sarah Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:56:49 +0000 http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2007/09/25/an-eventful-day/#comment-9515 ooh piccie of the accordian please! we have a child-sized one too but it is very small and limited with the chord buttons (only has C, G, F and D). My dad (and I learnt as a teen) has a huge one, comes in very handy at carol singing time of year :) ooh piccie of the accordian please! we have a child-sized one too but it is very small and limited with the chord buttons (only has C, G, F and D). My dad (and I learnt as a teen) has a huge one, comes in very handy at carol singing time of year :)

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