Comments on: yufopens! http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/ veda hille's occasional foray into podcasting. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:13:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Andrew Berry http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1136 Andrew Berry Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:26:35 +0000 http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1136 Hello Ade! Still using long words in an attempt to sound intelligent? Sandwiches eh? - how things change. Still, be lovely to catch up if you are in London anytime? Relive the old days perhaps? Duncan, I think she charges now? Hello Ade!
Still using long words in an attempt to sound intelligent? Sandwiches eh? - how things change.
Still, be lovely to catch up if you are in London anytime? Relive the old days perhaps?
Duncan, I think she charges now?

]]> By: Duncan MacKenzie http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1135 Duncan MacKenzie Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:19:55 +0000 http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1135 She was nice to me. I was nice to her. She was nice to me. I was nice to her.

]]> By: veda http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1134 veda Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:58:28 +0000 http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1134 well, i have to say i like the idea of this blog being a reunion point for grade 3 classes from the 70s. anyone from my grade 3 class out there? well, i have to say i like the idea of this blog being a reunion point for grade 3 classes from the 70s. anyone from my grade 3 class out there?

]]> By: Adrienne Jolly http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1133 Adrienne Jolly Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:58:51 +0000 http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1133 Don't ask how I got here, and the etiquette of imposing oneself in the middle of a conversation about collective nouns is a trifle rude (please accept apologies), but I do have to back Duncan up on the malevolence of terns, although there was something thrilling about the sea that day, and I remember more my being hauled away from the boat's edge by a teacher than a tern taking turns on my sandwich. Hello, by the way. Don’t ask how I got here, and the etiquette of imposing oneself in the middle of a conversation about collective nouns is a trifle rude (please accept apologies), but I do have to back Duncan up on the malevolence of terns, although there was something thrilling about the sea that day, and I remember more my being hauled away from the boat’s edge by a teacher than a tern taking turns on my sandwich. Hello, by the way.

]]> By: Duncan MacKenzie http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1132 Duncan MacKenzie Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:21:38 +0000 http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1132 In my mind's eye, my disturbingly lifelike dreams and every song I've ever written, he's always - ALWAYS used Powerpoint. I'm looking forward to my summer holiday this year. We'll be staying on the Northumberland coast and will make a point of taking a boatride to the Farne Islands, a starkly beautiful wind- and sea-swept group (sorry, but I don’t know the correct collective noun) of craggy islands which is home to one of the world's great flops. And an impressive raft of puffins. And a bazaar of guillemots. And a flight of cormorants and depending on their specific circumstances, several (diving) doppings / (in flight) plumps / (on water) paddlings / (familial) flushes of eider ducks. The dread of arctic terns has to be witnessed first hand to appreciate its sheer malevolence. I went on a school trip there around 1975 and the scalps of several small children in my class were punctured by divebombing terns. And poor Adrienne Jolly (whom I admired greatly as a 9 year old) had her cheese sandwich stolen. Bustards. In my mind’s eye, my disturbingly lifelike dreams and every song I’ve ever written, he’s always - ALWAYS used Powerpoint.

I’m looking forward to my summer holiday this year. We’ll be staying on the Northumberland coast and will make a point of taking a boatride to the Farne Islands, a starkly beautiful wind- and sea-swept group (sorry, but I don’t know the correct collective noun) of craggy islands which is home to one of the world’s great flops.

And an impressive raft of puffins.

And a bazaar of guillemots.

And a flight of cormorants and depending on their specific circumstances, several (diving) doppings / (in flight) plumps / (on water) paddlings / (familial) flushes of eider ducks.

The dread of arctic terns has to be witnessed first hand to appreciate its sheer malevolence. I went on a school trip there around 1975 and the scalps of several small children in my class were punctured by divebombing terns. And poor Adrienne Jolly (whom I admired greatly as a 9 year old) had her cheese sandwich stolen. Bustards.

]]> By: veda http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1131 veda Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:30:57 +0000 http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1131 i think the correct term is a "flop" of seals. and who are we to judge the equipment needs of the tropical st nick? i think the correct term is a “flop” of seals. and who are we to judge the equipment needs of the tropical st nick?

]]> By: Duncan MacKenzie http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1130 Duncan MacKenzie Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:47:00 +0000 http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1130 And is that a slimline Santa doing some sort of marketing presentation for next Christmas's long awaited return of the snorkel parka as an essential fashion accessory? And is that a slimline Santa doing some sort of marketing presentation for next Christmas’s long awaited return of the snorkel parka as an essential fashion accessory?

]]> By: Duncan MacKenzie http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1129 Duncan MacKenzie Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:40:53 +0000 http://vedahille.com/2007/03/28/yufopens/#comment-1129 May we assume, from the pose of the polar bear, that the story features a group (sorry, but I don't know the correct collective noun) of disrespectful seals? May we assume, from the pose of the polar bear, that the story features a group (sorry, but I don’t know the correct collective noun) of disrespectful seals?

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