I'm looking forward to taking a week off next week, to meet friends (my wife not least among them!) and go paddling in Skye at the sea kayak symposium; however there's the small question of getting there with the boat.
Meanwhile...
A German friend (hi, Justus, if you're lurking!), once remarked to me that his English teacher (an Americaine) claimed that, in English, "there ain't no noun that can't be verbed!" Well, how about "porridge"? As the anxious cook looks up from the camp stove to regard the slate-grey clouds tearing from the brow of the windward hill, he reflects: "Will it rain before it porridges, or will it porridge before it rains?" No, porridge (v.i.) will not do. However, it seems that the transitive form of the verb would work: to porridge someone must be akin to custard-pie-ing them, but an altogether more gruelling experience for the recipient.
And then again, maybe the word was originally a verb, having to do with turning oats into sustenance. I must look up Dr. Johnson on the subject...
If your turn of mind is so inclined,
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I may suggest you write a doggeral,
In the style of McGonagal...
With fond memories (!) of just such weather, and amusement, walking the pennine way with blisters...
love Abi.
Having spent the entire weekend padding albeit assessing one and two star paddlers, I can only admire your level of fitness. So that’s probably in distance terms similar to a mornings paddle. By contrast I am in a very small boat.
ReplyDeleteKeep on paddling there must be a lot of us out here lurking and admiring your stamina to keep on paddling.
Uncle Steve
Forgot to say hope you have a great Skye adventure.
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