The Locksley-Oakenshield Academy of Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy

[ComeIntoTheSinisterGardenMaud]

All specialisms catered for. We offer courses in

Hairdressing, whether for long hair or a more conventional short back and sides

Manicures

Skincare: facepacks and other beauty treatments

Body art

Advice on styling and personal grooming, ranging from
formal evening attire to casual wear, with specialist sessions on military uniform.

Yes, but I had to pretend not to, in order to post that, err, peachy pic

Admiring your grammatical exactitude, by the way.

::collapses in wailing heap in corner::

Nooooooooooooo!

This is my friend's DH. It's wrong.

Although there is a solution. If I can position him so the sun glints off the beard I may catch sight of a rogue nose hair and go off him again.

::sighs with relief::

You need to hone your critical faculties, LadyD.

This is a horny-handed son of toil and

This is a denizen of the village shop

Ooh blue boiler suit and hat - what chaRActer is that?. The beard one I can sympathise with lady d - I was not at all interested in them before!

I've got a great picture of your local village full of farmers, tractors and tall dark men in blue overalls! I imagine a bit like midsomer murder villages are so archetypically English - they can't possibly exist really!

Spiro the strike had crossed my mind. I'll be stumped I'm afraid - unless I bring DD with me for an educational on what happens if you start speaking to strangers on the pooter and then agree to meet them outing!

Indeed, Maud, sloppy grammar is a thing up with which i will not put.

Well, quite, Massive. I do detest a dangling participle.

I too hate sentences that end with a proposition preposition but they do sound so clumsy and dare i say it almost old-fashioned when writing them correctly!

John Standring from Sparkhouse, Vampy - or has Spiro explained already?

In all seriousness, one of the shop women looks exactly like your denizen pic, Maud. She also smells like she's just walked out of a slurry pit which makes for an, ahem, interesting shopping experience.

John Standring from Sparkhouse, Vampy - or has Spiro explained already?

Nope but she was just about to - I do like a horny handed son of toil, as you all well know ladiez!

Dangling participles? Oooh, i'm telling! Maudie was rood.

Thanks massive!

Right to bed I must go! Will investigate more of mr standridge tomorrow - he is new to me!. I do like having a new study subject to waste the hours away when I should be doing chores!

I do like a horny handed son of toil

I prefer a stompy-booted son of a b*tch, me

You're welcome, Vampy. Night night.

Au contraire. Dangling participles are terrible things but actually we're talking about dangling prepositions, aren't we?

Massive !

Vampy - I warn you now - you may have usurped my claim on Sergeant Porter by virtue of being a proper Army wife, but John Standring is mine...all mine!

One is allowed to end on a preposition these days, I think. You can split infinitives, too...

LOL @ Benny-from-Crossroads :)

C'est tout.

Massive. Me too, but he isn't available then a horny handed son of toil will do.

::looks back::

I thought we were Maud but then I am but of little brain!

Don't worry Spiro - I'm not at all convinced he'll be my type !

Indeed, Maud. never let your prepositions dangle.

I see them all the time and they drive me mad.

Twiggy - that's why it sounds so old-fashioned to write proper like! Our language is constantly evolving and not always for the better!

Just you wait Vampy...

He is the least obviously attractive of all the chaRActers but...you just have to see Sparkhouse and you'll know what I mean.

Mr S has just come up and I need a hell of lot more sleep than I got last night so am going off comms.

Sweet dReAms.

Except its the participles that make me cross . Silly e.Sorry for the mix-up, , i've had a hard day. And Spiro, i know what you're going to say to that .

Ralph John Standring is an utter sweetie, Vampy.

Twiggy, I know that in these lax and grammatically degenerate times, some people consider that a preposition is something that you can end a sentence with. But I don't.

Did you see what I did there?

But I agree that the dangling participles are worse. The dangling prepositions are ugly, but the dangling participles make nonsense of the meaning.