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I think that some have. But I can't think of any off-hand. The idea of planning a murder is pretty chilling.The best fiction murder would have to be the Simone de Beauvoir one-completely undetectable.
It's true about poor old Santa. But what else could he say ? "Ho ho ho' is about the only laugh sound anyone could make that doesn't sound witless. It's a full, rounded sound.I marvel anew at some peoples' filthy minds. These people see dirt everywhere.Our big Santa in Auckland has been revamped. He had a beckoning finger & winking eye & these made him look like a giant kiddy-fiddler; distinctly creepy. Nobody liked him.At least poor Santa hasn't been verboten as he was in Germany.I can't help feeling that it's a tainy bit insensitive to make oneself even taller and thus focus all the attention upon oneself. Mrs O is a beautiful woman who doesn't need to do this. She did it with our PM & his wife as well; Mrs Key looks as if she's finding it a bit irritating. I see a pattern emerging here. Maybe as time goes on she'll see that towering over everyone-including her husband-isn't diplomatic. Without the heels & beehive she's a tall, beautiful woman. With them she looks like a giantess.Oddly, it's often-usually-always ?-the teachers who are old-fashioned disciplinarians who are most popular, as they can have fun with their pupils once the boundaries are set. And they say when the joke's over. And they're fair. A teacher friend who was being wheedled to let the class out early on the day before the Easter holidays said he would if someone gave him an Easter egg...and someone had one. So he did !I think that teachers who dress like the school cleaner-as one girl I know does-are fools to themselves, as it requires a lot of personality to overcome this. There was a new teacher at our local high school who was straight from university & dressed like a student. She looked like a teenager & had about as much authority as one, poor girl.I still remember with quaking, shamed mirth poor Mr McCartney, the maths teacher, being driven to near insanity by my maths class's stupidity. This normally kind & gentle man walked in with our test papers and banged them down on the desk.'I've got news for you girls. (controlled)You're all going to fail School C. (still controlled-just)AND SERVE YOU RIGHT !!!! (finally losing it)JUST LOOK AT THESE MARKS !!! 11% ! !9% ! 21% ! 9 %!!!' and so on, to a petrified, silent class.Oh dear. I marvel at his optimism in thinking-and saying-that I could ever pass SC Maths.
There's a picture in our local paper of your Premier & his wife at the White House. Michelle Obama towering over everyone in her high heels & beehive hairdo-I envy her her height, but hope that I wouldn't emphasise & exaggerate it so. The Premier's wife looks as if she doesn't like being dwarfed any more than the rest of us would.With the idea that correcting childrens' grammar, spelling & punctuation inhibits them...what about maths ? I was an absolute fool at this. How nice if my teachers had decided that poor little Hermione shouldn't be discouraged by being told that 4440 divided by 4 isn't 355. A friend tells me that red xs are verboten in scholls somewhere in Australia because it's aggressive-both red & x. Silly me, I thought that red was used because it stood out. But as I think it's the same state ( can't be bothered to check its name which has escaped me) that forbade Santas to say 'Ho ho ho' because of the rude meaning of ho one must wonder what sort of people run it. What's he suppposed to say ? ha ha ha ? Hee hee hee ?
I am such a Luddite that I use standard English in texts ! Oh dear !
I have seen '4' for 'for' or maybe 'fore' in Edward Lear's letters !I really hate the patronising attitude of educators who think that it's not necessary to correct Johnny's appalling spelling, grammar & punctuation errors in case it inhibits him...that does seem to be changing. I learned correct English & it didn't inhibit me. Nor you, obviously. Thank God-and I mean that-my teachers were not of the generation who think that as long as someone can be understood nothing else matters.
I hope that India was spared the insanity of 'communication is more important than grammar or spelling' . The gentile/genteel thing shows the witlessness of this. Or a former estate agent favourite, the sort after neighbourhood.It could be worse, I suppose; a former neighbour was a Malaysian who used to dread letters from his semi-literate father as it took all day to decipher them. Oh my. Poor Mike.His wife was a Kiwi, so she couldn't help. At least with languages that use single symbols there's a limit to how incomprehensible something can be. In theory, anyway.
Considering that I go through this madness twice a year, you'd think I'd have learnt to get the work out of the way beforehand, wouldn't you? But I haven't; if anything I've regressed; I'm going to be up all night every night for these three days.
Been meaning to tell you how lovely you're looking. Did you do something different to your hair?
I am forever swooning over the chantleirs, pastles and such things on TradeMe, where I am trying to find a kerosene lamp.A house here is for sale- 'elegant and gentile'. I have seen this before.Gentile, forsooth. They obviously have no idea that even 'genteel' is not exactly a compliment-but this poor house is indeed genteel. All matchy-matchy and net curtains on lovely lead-light windows although nobody can see in. The first thing I did was remove all the nets from this house-we look out at hills and a farm. Who's looking in ? Nothing genteel or gentile about this house.I wish I could see this page. Whot didd thay doe, spel evn yuo & mee rong ? Pleas tel mee tht ths wsnt on shalferi.
Surely a-ss could never be as rude as those.
The worst type of photo book cover-to me-is a biography which has been filmed, with the actors of the film as the characters...I saw this done with CS Lewis & his wife. I have seen Jennings-the series with laminated covers-done with photos. But as the books were 30 years older than the photos, it was very jarring.Then there are the books of the films of the books. I have a horrid feeling that this has been done with Narnia-ouch. I didn't see the films, as I don't think that I could ever believe in Narnia again if I did. No more hopeful opening of old wardrobes...
If I send some rude words through to test them, will you delete AT ONCE ?????
They let 'arse' but not 'a-ss' ? Words fail me.
Having gone arse over elbow in the road yesterday I feel very sorry for myself, and a complete a-ss (just seeing if this will go through).I am on the trail of the Puffin 'An Old-fashioned Girl', I hope. I found a new copy of 'The Little White Horse'-with a very glam creature who looks nothing like Maria on the cover, forsooth. This is like having a glam Jane Eyre. My copy may be old and shabby, but at least it's got the Hodges (?) illustrations. My windows are open, and the baaaaas of the sheep across the road opposite fill the house. There's one goat amongst them.
I'm so sorry you were on the shelf for so long, Lady Dee. And happy that I found you there.
Happy anniversary, Lady Dee!
And how is Poona? The instant you left it began to drizzle, drizzle, drizzle -- and in November! Something's rotten in the state of Maharashtra, and I don't mean the Shiv Sainiks. Climate change, the home ministry of R R Patil and eventual rule by the MNS are looming, I tell you.
Arrey, teri phone, c'est phir se morte. We must speak before you leave!
Goodness. Enjoy your Priyankas.
No one's ever accused you of too little imagination.
