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Oh yes, Jazzgirl, it's very good if you know how Cockneys speak! Like the fahsand fevvers on a froat!
That is good info you gave me, thank you.
I had a job calming my joiner down. He was all for adding fancy beading etc. to the door, but I prefer simplicity. He's a very nice fella though.
He won't drink coffee so I have bought tea bags!
Fussy Scotsman!

Ooops!
On a frushes froat!

......freckled frushes froat.



I have "Eats shoots and leaves", but I don't see the connection to the battle - is it something else?

Chris, not sure what you mean.
The North London link to Passchendaele is that is where Lyn MacDonald lives,
She wrote "They Called it Passchendaele" which is what Elle is reading now.

Hi rusty
I thought the reference was still to Lyn Truss (though is she spelled differently?)

Jazzgirl mentioned Lyn, not me, and she spelled it Lyn, not Lynne. So, I presume Jazzgirl knew it was Lyn MacDonald I was hinting at.
Lyn MacDonald lives in North London,
Lynne Truss lives ??

Sorry, rusty - I meant that I had seen some discussion on getting hold of E,S & L earlier in the thread, so I thought that was still the Lyn(ne) being referred to - obviously not!

Yes, I did mean Lyn Macdonald.
Lynne Truss lives in Brighton with her dog Hoagy,
but she was born in Kingston on Thames, Surrey

Hoagy?
After Hoagy Carmichael, maybe?
A very talented man!

Hi, Rusty!
Too many "Lyn/ Lynne" s!
I can see why Chris became confused though because Pigale and I were talking about a book on bad punctuation called "Eats, Shoots and Leaves ".
There is a story with it......

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit.
The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves"

It just shows what bad punctuation can do!!!

I think I've got that cockney clue.....( possibly because of my two cockney friends!)
Breathe sounds like breve?

Our doorbell, as I said earlier is fixed besides the door, not a part of it (no clutter on the door itself)
It isn't anything fancy, though - it just rings when pressed! and isn't mobile like Jazzy's. Very basic.
Maybe your joiner friend will have some ideas?
Why do you have to 'concentrate ' on the haddock? (You're not going fishing for it, are you?!)