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Okay. I confess. 'The girl collected a small squadron of paper planes from the classroom floor.'
Thanks all. Thanks Ashlea. I like 'squadron'. :)
Third Man Girl
Reminds me of the child who examined a finger that had recently been poked in its ear, and said, "Look! An ear wak!"
*Johnson's Cotton Buds - for those stubborn ear waks.* :)
Third Man Girl
Is there a word for a collection/group of aeroplanes?
I've tried a hangarload/a windfall/a flight, but I need a word for a bunch of grounded planes, in the open, undamaged.
Help, please (again) :(
Third Man Girl
Thanks Jojo.
It all sounds rather complicated, but interesting. And it certainly beats our method of naming boys after the eleven members of a favourite football team, and girls after the latest celebrity actress. :(
Thanks again for your help
Third Man Girl
All US school kids drive their own cars to school.
I have fond memories of a boy in my year driving a bus to school. I believe he was expelled. :D
Third Man Girl
How Blue?
As blue as a whale,
As blue as a snail,
As ice-white blue
As a bridal veil?
As blue as pale smoke,
As blue as a joke,
As blue as hot coke
When you give it a poke?
As blue as a cold,
As blue as bread mould,
As blue as a gem
On a band of white gold?
As blue as the...
Oh, I didn't write it. And I've no idea who did. My father used to say it, repeatedly, when I was little.
Here's another he used to quote:
Fuzzy Wuzzy wuz a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wuzn't fuzzy,
Wuzzy?
He died ten years ago, today. Happy memories, Dad. :)
Third...
Current favourite things:
The mahogany-brown leather of my little ankle boots.
Driving to the sound of the White Stripes ‘Ball & Biscuit’ – the guitar, the lyrics and that thrilling, threatening voice.
Third Man Girl