tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post3688493152220530587..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Bizarre Trouser Accident - Joan LennonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-9226201273669072142008-10-10T22:04:00.000+01:002008-10-10T22:04:00.000+01:00Or we home school...and encourage its development ...Or we home school...and encourage its development profusely!LynnHChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01748651754823966254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-81450696655280640212008-10-09T14:55:00.000+01:002008-10-09T14:55:00.000+01:00Past particle of fit = fat!!Wonderful.And enormous...Past particle of fit = fat!!<BR/>Wonderful.<BR/>And enormously revealing about the way we learn language. We don't just learn it, we create it for ourselves as we go. We all go through a stage of being as ingenious as Keats (or summink). Then it's off to school to have it beaten out of us.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307045090887391553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-81052139591216754902008-10-09T10:30:00.000+01:002008-10-09T10:30:00.000+01:00"Biscuit carpenter"! Fantastic!One of my favourite..."Biscuit carpenter"! Fantastic!<BR/><BR/>One of my favourite offspring quotes was from my son at age 2: "Do you think that lorry will fit under that bridge?" he asked, and then moments later chirruped delightedly, "It did! It fat!"<BR/><BR/>And I love "Austentatious", too.John Doughertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11937505376169411724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-42691672317676555352008-10-09T09:37:00.000+01:002008-10-09T09:37:00.000+01:00Have been there in the tangled trouser leg/falling...Have been there in the tangled trouser leg/falling over scenario myself...thanks for telling me!Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-38514275636443009292008-10-08T19:37:00.000+01:002008-10-08T19:37:00.000+01:00Re. details of the Trouser Accident, I would love ...Re. details of the Trouser Accident, I would love to be able to say "I've been sworn to secrecy" because of the way it would immediately get your brain churning with wonderfully weird possibilities. In fact, she just fell over getting dressed ...Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-6804552071206748832008-10-08T14:57:00.000+01:002008-10-08T14:57:00.000+01:00Austentatious is the best new coinage! I'm going t...Austentatious is the best new coinage! I'm going to have to start using it :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-76275632583508259942008-10-08T09:46:00.001+01:002008-10-08T09:46:00.001+01:00Start writing them now, Nick, or you will forget t...Start writing them now, Nick, or you will forget them - never mind the lost ones, there will be more in the futures. <BR/><BR/>I love 'Austentatious' - that has to be the most fabulous new word of the day, thank you Joan.AnneRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02886295208140507100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-36313230976428794502008-10-08T09:46:00.000+01:002008-10-08T09:46:00.000+01:00Oh, Joan! You've cheered up my morning. Thank you...Oh, Joan! You've cheered up my morning. Thank you. But I SO want to know exactly what happened in the 'bizarre trouser accident'--or are the details too gruesome for public consumption?Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-8147862659664377472008-10-08T09:29:00.000+01:002008-10-08T09:29:00.000+01:00And that's without mining the vast reserves of wha...And that's without mining the vast reserves of what younger children come up with. My three-year-old son recently wanted to stop by the baker's, but forgot the word for it. He said, 'Can we go to the... the biscuit carpenter?'<BR/><BR/>I should write them all down; there are dozens like it, but tragically I forget them...Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307045090887391553noreply@blogger.com