How super were the talks today!? Lovely book selection! Bronnie is so lovely with the boys and we also felt that having a man enthusing about the books set a great example. That was a MUCH better quality of fair and I am sure the sales will go well. (Ms RC, teacher)
Thanks so much for your lovely message and for everything that you do with Book Wagon. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do.David Litchfield, author and illustrator
I am not a huge fan of EATING hot cross buns, but it was lovely to wallow in the depictions and the history of the effervescent everpresent first recorder tune that every child in our district learns in 2nd grade! I especially enjoyed the pagan Oestre cross info. Thanks for the time and effort you put into these post, Jama, and Happy Easter to you!
At Baby Squids we use a lot of songs in our swimming lessons to help children feel at ease in the water, but also to make the lessons enjoyable for both parents and children. Along with some of the traditional songs and nursery rhymes, we also have some of our own songs and adapted versions of traditional songs that we use.
That would be tricky enough, but there's a second twist that makes rhyming slang even harder to understand: usually, the word of the rhyming phrase that actually rhymes gets dropped. So even though "stairs" rhymes with "apples and pears," someone using the slang in conversation would just say "apples." To say "go up the stairs" in rhyming slang, you would say "go up the apples."
Other common-if-kitschy rhyming slang words include "trouble," which means "wife" (trouble and strife = wife); "butcher's," which means "look" ("butcher's hook" = look); "dog," which means "phone" (dog and bone = phone); and "barnet," which means "hair." (Barnet fair = hair.) And there's "berk," an insult. When I first heard it, I thought it was perhaps a reference to the well-known 19th-Century Edinburgh murderer William Burke. But according to Green, Berk is short for "Berkshire hunt," which rhymes with ... not a very nice thing to call someone.
Lost Horizons received mostly positive reviews from music critics, although several critics critiqued the album's near-constant mellowness. Stuart Mason of AllMusic called the album "a delightful but slightly faceless blend of lounge pop, subtle beats, found sound, with mellow jazz influences."[13] A reviewer for Entertainment.ie praised the band for approaching electronica from a new angle, writing, "this London-based duo employ Playschool pianos, acoustic guitars and sprightly beats to create laid-back instrumentals guaranteed to soothe even the most restless of souls. [...] What really marks Lemon Jelly as exciting new talents is their quirky sense of humour, which they use to brighten up their sound with skilful use of nursery rhymes, brass bands and offbeat samples."[21] Pascal Wyse of The Guardian wrote, "Everything is approachable and purely crafted, but Lost Horizons cheats banality with some choice quirks: Magnificent Seven strings, astronauts chatting, panoramic sound effects."[9] Chris Dahlen of Pitchfork felt that the album was a little too saccharine at times, but that it is "the perfect disc to throw on after your four-disc Ultrachill Dub Groove Mix has put the whole party to sleep. It's like eight flavors of ribbon candy, beach balls hitting the ground like hail, and a big plastic clown face that blows helium."[10]