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Reading through an old thread, which ended as per the quote below, got me wondering whether we could have a new party game variant on our hands:

 

Here's how the thread ended, guess how it started.

 

I liked "Billy Budd" there much better.
Jim, I'm afraid you've now cross-pollinated this thread with the Sweet William flower thread of Wendy's.

Oh, where have you been, Billy Budd, Billy Budd?

Oh, where have you been, charming Billy?

I have been to see a frog; he was sitting on a log;

He's an old frog, and soon he will be croaking.

............:)

Back in 2004, Hugo made the initial posting under the title:

 

How Much is a Jeffries Worth..............

 

Can anybody out there help me? I am considering selling my Jeffries anglo which is in perfect playing condition as I am considering downgrading to a lesser model. I paid a high price for it a couple of years ago as it was and still is in perfect condition. I am wondering what it would be worth now if I should put it on the market? No photo available at the moment. 30 buttons C/G 7 fold bellows.

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Talking of Spring

I have just cut my lawn for the first time this Year.

Mr and Mrs Starling are back in the nest I made for them.

The wild daffodills are out on the bank of the stream that runs at the bottom of my garden.

My favourite time of the Year.

Al

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There's a bit on the end of Anne's fiddle bow that's called a frog, for some reason. Talking of fiddles, have you noticed that when a fiddle is played slightly out of tune the sound clashes with the sound of a concertina more than with other instruments?

 

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Talking of Spring

I have just cut my lawn for the first time this Year.

Al

Wot! Before Easter!

Never sir, A mans lawn mowing season is his castle. Throw ye not the gauntlet early, lest the evil grass rallies the troupes of wasps for the barbeque season. Ye hath been warned :ph34r:

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Talking of fiddles, have you noticed that when a fiddle is played slightly out of tune the sound clashes with the sound of a concertina more than with other instruments?

 

Chris

 

That I have Chris :( ! By the end of an evening I've curled up me big toes up so hard that it sets the gouty one off on a real roar :ph34r: .

 

 

I wish Peter hadn't mentioned frogs and mowing. My pond frog, who I so enjoyed watching (been with us for three years) jumped out from under a row of hostas next to my pond right under my mower. I thought I was over that...I'm not. No more frogs in my pond. I can't take even the memory of it.

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My pond frog, who I so enjoyed watching (been with us for three years) jumped out from under a row of hostas next to my pond right under my mower. I thought I was over that...I'm not. No more frogs in my pond. I can't take even the memory of it.

Talking of mowers, does anyone remember the B-list tough-guy English actor Patrick Mower? Because I played darts against him in a pub in Kensington in 1976, and I thought you'd all be interested. Go here http://homepage.ntlworld.com/johne.redfern/mower.htm to find out more....

Incidentally Mark, do you have the same problems in Milford, MA, with slugs eating your Hosta plants as we do here in Glossop? It's so bloody damp here. The lawn's actually been under water for most of the past week (drought, what drought?) so no chance of getting the mower anywhere near it.

Brian

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Incidentally Mark, do you have the same problems in Milford, MA, with slugs eating your Hosta plants as we do here in Glossop? It's so bloody damp here. The lawn's actually been under water for most of the past week (drought, what drought?) so no chance of getting the mower anywhere near it.

Brian

 

I do indeed. There is a solution, but involves poison and being so close to my pond out of the question. Would like to import some nice English hedge hogs for I understand they just love slugs. I could keep a family of them fat and happy. Thank you Brian, that made me feel much better.

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"have you noticed that when a fiddle is played slightly out of tune the sound clashes with the sound of a concertina more than with other instruments?"

 

Perhabs because it's a sustained note instrument, just like concertina, and a one voice too. So the two clear voices definitely clash. Other instruments might be plucked, or strummed, like a guitar or balalaika, which is the instrument I'm looking for my daughter to learn on.

Does anybody know where to get a reasonable balalaika Prima in Bay Area California?

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Would like to import some nice English hedge hogs for I understand they just love slugs. I could keep a family of them fat and happy.

I'd be delighted to bring a few over with me when I visit New England in June, but I think there might be difficulties with Customs. Besides, we do get hedgehogs in Glossop, but even they can't eat the slugs fast enough.

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Drift over here to have Fun with Thread. I made this tartan reminiscent of (2-dimensional) music notation and call it The Waukin of the Fauld, after my favorite strathspey.

 

Oh, where's Spindizzy when we need her?

 

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who me!?!

 

I had an email just yesterday from someone looking for a welsh weaver to weave them the Evans tartan - aargh! - what is this thing with tartan - are they obligatory for all celtic nations? The Welsh wear red flannel, black and white check and tall hats and sit in front of spinning wheels (usually the wrong way round) for photographers.

 

Now I think I'd better go into hiding again ... I'm only about 15 miles from the welsh border here, well within range of a well thrown leek.

 

Chris aka spindizzy

(is this thread drifted enough yet :lol: )

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Incidentally Mark, do you have the same problems in Milford, MA, with slugs eating your Hosta plants as we do here in Glossop?

Slugs, eh? Wish I'd known that some years back. The hosta in my garden (from a previous owner) was about as encroaching and ineradicable as kudzu. Tried to strangle everything else. Well, at least it didn't climb trees. (For that we had poison ivy. Europeans are lucky they don't have that beauty!)

 

Would like to import some nice English hedge hogs for I understand they just love slugs. I could keep a family of them fat and happy.

Have you considered throwing them on the barbecue and inviting the neighbors over? You could bill it as a "slugfest". :ph34r:

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Now I think I'd better go into hiding again ... I'm only about 15 miles from the welsh border here, well within range of a well thrown leek.

Hmm. If a couple of Welshmen grabbed you and walked off in opposite directions, would that be a "taffy pull"? ;)

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Speaking of upside down apples....... when I was a kid I hung (hanged, did hang? hung doesn't seem right somehow) upside down from the top of a garden swing frame and ate an apple to see if it would go uphill to my stomach. And it did.

 

Well, it interested me at the the time!

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