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Re: poetry

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:06 pm
by Bunnylump
Mine sort of winces when I approach him with yet another puzzle. He's quite good at solving things which I'm hopeless at and vice versa. The hard part is managing to catch him when he's not snoring on the sofa!! :roll:

Re: poetry

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:10 pm
by LAT
Mine will not admit to any interest in puzzles at all. He did have a look at the "Reading the signs" but I don't think he actually came up with any answers on that either. So I'm left here battling on my own. :(

Re: poetry

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:40 am
by strep98
Mine looked at the posters and :o :o , got the one we all got first, the one with the words on, then came up with all sorts of weird and wonderful answers (I think he does it to try and put me off). When I told him the right answers, he said that I should be thinking of something sensible and not daft puzzles and he's the one with the degree :!: :!:

Re: poetry

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:14 pm
by kingsley
Bunnylump wrote:Wasn't that the one she found under your bed?? :lol:
I don't know, there are lots of books under my bed! I still haven't got round to do this puzzle yet though. The books under my bed are irrelevent (except the poetry book).

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:10 pm
by christina
Hi im still stuck on this can i pm somebody with my words please.
I took the advise left it alone went back to it still nothing leapt out,gave it to my husband no idea!!
cheers Tina

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:56 pm
by giraffe
PM me if you like.

Re: poetry

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:26 pm
by kingsley
Finally done this puzzle. It took me a long time and I had a wrong word at one point.

Re: poetry

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:29 pm
by chazzie
Well done Kingsley - how far have you got now?

Re: poetry

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:38 pm
by kingsley
I've just got baroquen and the surrealism crossword left. I've done quite a bit of baroquen but not much of the crossword! :(

Re: poetry

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:50 pm
by Bunnylump
You're doing really well!

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:03 pm
by kingsley
I'm getting through the puzzles at a slow but steady pace. I haven't really had the chance to do much since half term, but I'm getting on with it slowly.

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:38 pm
by Bunnylump
What? Have you been doing something good like concentrating on homework or something? :lol: Truly impressive. It's such a shame they don't do GCSEs in puzzling, isn't it?

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:43 pm
by kingsley
They never seem to set much homework! :lol:

No, it's just when I come in from a day at school I can't be bothered to exercise my brain again. I've mainly been working on puzzlebrains a bit later in the evening and at the weekends. In the half term I had nothing better to do than puzzles! At least the magazines are bimonthly so I get longer to complete the magazine! I hope to be done quite soon anyway!

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:05 pm
by Bunnylump
They never seem to set much homework!
I'll have to send a copy of this quote to your teachers; I'm sure they would be delighted to remedy this situation!! :mrgreen:

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:07 pm
by kingsley
One of my teachers actually said to us today that she thought homework was completely pointless,, so we asked her why she gave it to us. She said that the head says she has to! :lol:

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:19 pm
by Bunnylump
Actually, I totally agree. I don't want to come home from work and do more work, and I don't see why young people should either. I can see the benefit of independent working, but surely they could build that into a school day if they thought about it enough?

I'm a firm believer of children and young people having time to do their own thing in their own time, playing, watching tv, doing sports or music or vegging out staring at a wall!! As long as it doesn't involve antisocial behaviour or crime, or getting to bed ludicrously late, then whatever floats your boat!

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:20 pm
by giraffe
:shock: :o

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:29 pm
by Bunnylump
As you can see, my children have grown up and gone to university, so I don't have to nag them to do their homework any more!! YIPPEE! However, I'm having great fun inciting your children to stare at walls instead! :mrgreen:

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:40 pm
by giraffe
giraffe wrote: :shock: :o
This was a reply to Kingsley not Bunnylump. :lol:

Re: poetry

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:45 pm
by Bunnylump
Ah good. I thought I was going to get told off for a moment then. :lol: