Wordwizard

For some reason I can't upload the picture, but this link should take you to it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/155026089 ... 906168172/

I met an old friend from New Orleans the other night.
He told me that he had joined a band singing songs about the Mississippi going down to the sea.
It’s a tributary band.

I think that spooning in the cuddling sense is far more likely to come from the way that two spoons fit together rather than the Welsh lovespoon. It is true that they were given as love tokens, and in fact I have carved several in my time. I now make them in ceramic, the one I made Margaret is espec...

It would be better to say, "The tree was uprooted in the storm".

They don't.

We would be very pleased to see you.

I cant wait to drop that one into a conversation.

"I wanted a good guard dog".

Erik told me that my link in the previous post didn't work. I have sorted it now.

Most people would work out what you meant without too much thought.

Yes, but most are a bit cumbersome.

Thanks everyone. I did consider Plwc of course, but I can't find that word either. The area was a dreadful mess until relatively recently. I will have a search around and see if I can show you some then and now pictures. I actually remember the area without a blade of grass because of sulphuric acid...

Not bad Steven and with two small changes either will do the job.

1. Whoever gets there first should find a table and keep our spot.
2. Whoever gets there first had better find a table and keep our seats.

Steven, you have just come across another peculaiarity of the English Language.
It isn't, "there are a yellow thing, a brush and a black dish on the board".
It is, "there is a yellow thing, a brush and a black dish on the board".

Not at all possible Tony.
I hadn't come across pluck as lee before, and that is obviously a possible derivation.
Thank you