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Jopsy if your going to be different then i'm going to be special. :shock: :wink:

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How special? :shock:
What is your new quote!! :lol:
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Exceedingly special, as for the quote, i think it's an older version of, don't judge a book by it's cover. Here endeth your first lesson. :wink:

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I think it was the word 'cock' that threw me :shock:
Thank-you oh cleverer one :wink:
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Cheeky Herby, but very, very true :twisted:
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Theres many a fine cock come out of a tattered bag.
The cock is short for cockerel, when they used to take the cockerels to cock fights in a bag.
Funny how words get changed, i like the word gay in it's old text. I think i'm going to liberate it, and start using it in it's right context again. :D
Sorry for getting off your subject Carole B. :oops:

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Sorry Carole
I knew what it meant Herby :wink:
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Hi Carole,
Have you ever tried reading Charles Dickens in his original text. It is absolutely fascinating and there are words used that no longer exist in the English language and you have to read on to find what is actually meant.
I picked up the complete set of Dickens in the original text for a rediculous price at a Charity Shop in Shrewsbury and there are books within books that I have never heard of. I suppose they are more essays than books.
I have laid Les Miserable aside for a while and am reading 'Over Hill and Dale' by Gervase Phinn
as a forepiece there is a poem called 'An Inspector Calls' and it seems very apt if you have been wading through an Ofsted Report! Are you familiar with Gervaise Phinns work? He also wrote 'The Other Side of the Dale' which I shall also read when I can acquire a copy.
I do hope that you have now dispensed with the Ofsted Report and have got onto some lighter material this week.
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Carole and Johnboy I have been lucky enough to meet Gervais twice!
I even have a few books signed by him
He's even more entertaining in real life
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I know someone else like him. :wink:

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now who could that be! :wink:
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Are you like me looking forward to the Rowling Pratchett collaboration when Potter moves on from Hogwarts to the Unseen University?
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Oh I do hope that happens, the Librarian, Vimes, Lord Vetanari and Carrot should sort the little idiot out.
Also if Pratchett got involved that standard of english used will soar from its current lamentably low reading age.
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By choice, "The Various Haunts of Men" by susan Hill - an excellent detective novel that I couldn't put down :D
by necessity, the handouts relating to the work course that I've just been on :?
on the way back, popped into a second hand book shop and picked up "Your Garden Week by Week", by AGL Hellyer. looks like it might be useful,altough it's quite old so most of the "treatments" recommended have probably now been banned!
PS, if you two are special and differnet, then can I be unparalleled?
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Zena, i've got "your garden week by week", i think you will get on well with it, as it's very simple to understand. :wink:
Unparalleled sounds good to me. :wink:

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