HAPPY NEW WEEK!
Last week's Chat thread is here.
No time for a post or replies from me, folks. Really, really busy. I'm sending good wishes to all. Heather: I hope your daughter is improving.
Everyone have a wonderful week!
Sorry Brenda some how missed your post, must be old age. Sorry to hear you haven't been well those stomach bugs can really wash you out. So just take it easy and let hubby care for you has we can hear he is doing, and lets hope you'll feel better soon. take care from Yas
dibnlib said:HEATHER we had a 'see how they wriggle and squirm" instead of gooey, gooey worms.
hi Heather l looked the words up on google and we both seem to be right there are a lot of verses and chorus with both our words in, hope your getting better luck with your computer problems yas
First things first: The Worm Song:
The version I learnt when helping on a Brownie Pack Holiday when our girls were both Brownies (about 1978):
Nobody likes me,
Everybody hates me,
Just because I eat worms.
Long thin slimy ones,
Short fat fuzzy ones:
Lovely gooey gooey gooey worms!
Now, the wee skinny m’linky ones
Slide down easily; the short, fat fuzzy ones stick;
And when the short fat fuzzy ones stick between your teeth,
All the juice goes yyick!
(or end on some other suitably horrible onomatopoeic word!)
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Do you realise OG,Heather,Annette, There are 3 versions of this song!!! can't believe it can you? saw all of them on google with all our words in different ones. Yas
Even hotter last night: threw the duvet off completely (changed to summer one a few weeks ago) and tossed and turned all night, dozing occasionally. Still no thunderstorms here, although apparently one set fire to a distribution pole just south of Carlisle yesterday and they keep telling us we have torrential rain – must be down in the west of Galloway. I am keeping one eye out the window as we hung out some washing. Been gardening all morning: lots of little bits around the deck area. OH is now painting the bit of old fence behind the garage. I have prepared all the veg and put beef bourgignon in the oven, so he only has potatoes to do later, and I shall confront the ironing before it accumulates further!
Heather – good luck with your W10 – I can’t remember how it was without it, so can’t give you any tips! Not sure whether you should be worried or relieved to think of OH using a walking stick! Pleased the new tops fit well, I hate having to return things.
Brenda – so sorry you have been unwell; I hope you will feel better now, and return to normal energy levels – but don’t try to do much if it is hot there!
Annette – busy again, I see! Never know who lets paperwork into this house – it doesn’t help that we are getting referendum rubbish through the door, even though we have completed our postal votes. Also, the bank seems to be changing various T & Cs for the tenth time in what seems as many months, and has to write to us both every time! Puddletown used to be called Piddletown (it’s on the river Piddle) but the Victorians didn’t think that was very “nice”! It features in “Far From the Madding Crowd” by Thomas Hardy as “Weatherby”, home of Bathsheba Everdene of “Weatherby Farm”. Do you know what Tenterhooks are?
A tenter is a wooden frame, often in the form of a line of fencing, used to hang woollen or linen cloth to prevent it from shrinking as it dries. The tenterhooks are, not surprisingly, the hooks on the tenter used to hold the cloth in place. Tenters are no longer everyday objects but a hundred and more years ago, in wool weaving areas like the North of England and in Gloucestershire (Stroud, I think) where they dyed the red cloth used for military uniforms, they were a common sight on the land around the many woollen mills, called 'tenter-fields'. It is easy to see how the figurative expression 'on tenterhooks', with its meaning of painful tension, derived from the 'tenting' or stretching of fabric.
Yas – I think you are the fourth one of us on this chat thread to have Blepharitis; I use hot massage and drops from the hospital, and mine is reasonably well controlled – oh, and avoid eye make-up! Watermelon is so refreshing in hot weather, but some have too many seeds for my liking.
Well, air begins to feel thundery, so I think I’ll get the washing in – it must be dry by now, anyway.
Local police have a sense of humour:
Can't believe what I am actually about to type here. However, Met Office warning for heavy rain this afternoon across Dumfries and Galloway from 2pm through to... 9pm. Potential for heavy and thundery showers though this period which will make for difficult driving conditions. Take care on the roads, and take off those shades later!
l've just wrote a longish email and the quote thing doesn't like it so hears the shorten version.
Hi OG Said about blepharitis incase others on the site had it and my information might be of help to them, l'm hoping it's the sofa which is now covered in a sheet, and was better some what after we did this.So will see, hope you won't get has bad weather has there saying.take care from Yas
Hi Lindy have missed not hearing from you this morning, are you busy in the garden? if so don't over do it this hot weather, we have lica trees but have to keep them small to have the views and light.Hope to hear from you later take care from Yas
Morning all: Well, I guess duplicating a post doesn't count as more communication. Have no idea how that happened.
dibnlib: Puddletown definitely more a Beatrix than a Harry name.
Yas: I grew up hearing just those first few lines of "..go and eat worms" and had no idea there was more. You can Google it and find lots of versions on YouTube. Have fun. No saucy books I'm afraid - I tend to biographies with mysteries in between and some novels, but fewer of those.
Heather: I'm ignoring Cortana; I suspect she's related to Siri.
OG: I Googled tenterhooks after I typed it and yes, can easily see the connection with current usage. Love the post from the Dumfries Police - and just saw on the BBC website that a house was struck by lightning in Midlothian and that some roads in the border area are flooded, though from their map that looks East of you.. We haven't has much election mail at this point, but I'm sure we'll be fighting our way past it come November. California's primary election is today. I voted early and am wondering how on earth the "other" party is going to avoid imploding before November.
Have a couple of deadlines this week, so am grateful for gray and cool days.... Take care all
Hello, ANNETTE - I noticed the duplicated post, and thought it was quite clever than the line-spacing was different second time around!
Didn't have fun songs like The Worm Song when I myself was a Brownie - our Brown Owl was an elderly (to us positively ancient)spinster with a double-barrelled name and a grand house who made sure we behaved with appropriate decorum at all times - we were her "Gells" and had to be a credit to the movement!
Thundery rain never arrived, and you are right, the bad weather seems to be mostly East of us in the Lothians, Scottish Borders Region and N-E England (probably wet Ospreys in Tweed Valley and Kielder Forest!)
I hope nothing prevents you achieving your deadlines - are they connected with freelance work?
Yes Annette did find lots of versions to the song about 4 l think, always good to hear from you, take care from Yas ps reading a murder mysteries at the moment which we don't do much.