Arrival at 10.30am, having stopped at Mercer for 500g extra mature (2 yrs) Gouda.
A long walk up the forestry track and back with Renate.
Lunch - various pressed and sliced meats, cheeses, fresh breads, beer.
A visit to Ollie's "man cave" (shed) to watch an attempt at repairing a motocross bike piston.
Another beer.
A half hour walk along road and back (Yvonne and entourage opt for a one hour jog, including a crossing across a field of steers and one bull, who Angie the labrador has to have a go at).
Spa and beer.
Dinner - Christmas ham, fried new spuds, salad, red wine (9pm - slightly later than any of us are accustomed to, owing to Sarah cutting her foot open on a submerged rock in the swimming hole).
Hancock on the big screen under a sky drenched with stars (more wine).
Chatting into the short hours with Ollie and Renate, by the fireplace (vermouth and coffee).
Finish Lady Oracle to the accompaniment of some whirring insect.
Sunlight, shower, horse at the door, sudoku, pancake with banana and strawberries, chats with Stephan and Yvonne (German visitors), dishes, pack up kids, drive home (Pokeno for sausages and icecream), back to a sunbaked city, house, wife.
What is the collective noun for 14-year-old boys (there were 4 of them)? A choir? A gang? A parliament? A murder? A mess? A rebellion? A sneer?
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Shouldn't be parliament, since that's already used for something else which might imply wisdom. On the subject of owls, though, I heard a morepork last night, and I'm sure it sounded better than your little posse.
ReplyDeleteMurder and mess are also already used, but I haven't seen any crows or iguanae recently, and they don't serve well enough for a sneer (butlers).
How about a fall (as in lambs)? Pic.
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm suggests a blush of boys and possibly a rascal of boys.
ReplyDeleteI like blush or rascal.
ReplyDeleteLois has also suggested "morosity" which led me to a "cynicism".
Morosity gets my vote. Cynicism possibly for a group of 15 year old boys.
ReplyDeletei was the only 14 year old boy.
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