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Franny Had A Little Yam - 10/10 thingummies :o)

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TooTicky · 26/07/2008 23:01

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FrannyandZooey · 27/07/2008 18:21

don't be daft, you'd have to charge £245
then people would REALLY rate you

ahundredtimes · 27/07/2008 18:21

[considers renting village hall and printing up posters]

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TooTicky · 27/07/2008 18:22

Okay 100x, you can trial your methods on us.

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TooTicky · 27/07/2008 18:22

Village hall here only costs £5 per hour....

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ahundredtimes · 27/07/2008 18:24

Well I think I've explained my methodology below TooT. [superior]

Actually, I did a thread once on parenting using my puppy training book. Got to say, bloody marvellous actually.

Might use that for sort of extension work or something? That'll be £500 for a one to one session.

pinkspottywellies · 27/07/2008 18:24

Oh Franny, you'll be fine! I can imagine it must be scary though!!

No TooT we have the plastic stuff We were bought a set and decided to build on the same collection rather than having loads of random stuff. It's nice though and the trains are die-cast metal.

FrannyandZooey · 27/07/2008 18:25

This is the beginning of ds's sea story:

"Once upon a time there was a sea kelpie. A boat was going to get stolen by the sea kelpie and the sea kelpie was very scary. He had big sharp fangs and look at his face - look at the spikes. His horns are very sharp and they have poison blobs on the top.

The boat was taking silver and gold and water to Africa. The sea kelpie tried to steal the water and gold and silver, so it could buy and drink as much as it wanted, and the big barrels of juice that were on the boat, that I haven't told you about yet. But then a whirlpool came up, and unfortunately, on the top of the boat the gold and silver and water was being stored, and the boat went down, down, down into a whirlpool which was deep, dark and full of shark, and the boat floated away."

I particularly like "deep, dark and full of shark." He was most specific that it was just shark singular, otherwise it didn't sound so good.

ahundredtimes · 27/07/2008 18:27

lol. I particularly like 'and unfortunately' and also like 'look at the spikes!'

FabioThatFirggingCat · 27/07/2008 18:27

[agog]

What happened next what happened next what happened next what happened next what happened next what happened next what happened next what happened next?

He should be on Jackanory. Top tale.

FrannyandZooey · 27/07/2008 18:31

well to be perfectly honest I feel it loses focus after that bit
I mean I can see the author's intention but I am not convinced he carries his message through - the flim flam about the people of England, though poetic, is particularly poorly executed IMO
and the ending lacks conviction

maybe you could run story telling workshops at the same time 100
you could just put a different hat on and charge slightly less I would think

anyway here you go:

"The boat was all right because the top closed. It had a very special close, because when it started sinking fast, it goes SLAM! and the boat floated so far down that it sunk right down, deep, deep, deep, into the sand and it was never seen again.

And at last, at last, when every person of England had died, and the Romans far far along had died, it sailed far far away. So it was seen by the water kelpie every time he came up, but he had died by then, and all the sea creatures had died and they had different sea creatures then. But the people of England never saw it again.

It sailed straight into a dam but then it just easily came up again, because it was still a submarine and its top wasn't broken at all by the stuff coming off, because there was a sail on top of the boat, in the crows' nest, and the gold and silver and water was stored on top of that. When that wasn't working they had oars to row the boat along. The boat did get to Africa in safety but nothing happened, it found all its gold and silver while it was in the dam, and it just got there."

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TooTicky · 27/07/2008 18:34

Great stuff!!!!!!

Deep, dark and full of shark would make a wonderful title.

Puss, who are you?

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FrannyandZooey · 27/07/2008 18:34

I know
I know
I know
I know

FrayedKnot · 27/07/2008 18:35

I had that idea to beging with, Pink, that we'd just have wooden Brio witha couple of Thomas engines.

So we had wooden but then someone gave us a plastic set too and then we have miscellaneous non compatible trains (die cast metal collectors from second hand train shop) and well...

The house is just awash with the bloomin things

I love DS1's story, Franny, it's fabulous.

I bet Boco could do an amazing illustration of a whirlpool full of shark

Just thanking goodness I made moussaka yesterday to eat today so just had to heat it and garlic bread and salad and everyone was happy

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TooTicky · 27/07/2008 18:35

If you loved me you'd tell me.

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FrannyandZooey · 27/07/2008 18:40

Fabio save me
I'm getting the hardcore emotional blackmail here from TooT
(TooT I am impressed, you went straight for the jugular there)

BBBee · 27/07/2008 18:40

how nice franny - how nice and normal for him.

FrannyandZooey · 27/07/2008 18:41

TooT there is a smashing poo crumb thread active now that you would probably appreciate the horror of
I won't expect the rest of these barbarians to be impressed by it

ahundredtimes · 27/07/2008 18:51

Yes, his work does suffer from hard to keep this going, tricky middle bit doesn't it? You can tell him he has all my sympathies.

FabioThatFirggingCat · 27/07/2008 18:52

I thought it built up to an unexpected denouement, leaning heavily on influences from Spielberg (AI) and The Beatles. I think the moral is clear - don't let a kelpie near your boat.

pinkspottywellies · 27/07/2008 19:05

Come and help me oh wise veggers.

filthymindedvixen · 27/07/2008 20:17

I fel like I have been away for ages but was only 24 hours. Fran, he is positively edible...

Cat, either introduce yourself proeprly, give us a clue or feck off. I don't like talking to people who have the advantage of me.

Had a wonderful weekend but amd a bit burned and very PMT...

BBBee · 27/07/2008 20:23

hi filth

did you do lying on boats or locks?

I think someone should go out and buy you a double decker.

filthymindedvixen · 27/07/2008 20:29

no we did beach, as I insisted. Twas gorgeous.n Haven't eaten nything more wholesoe than a scone with raisins though with jam. And strawberry ice cream.

pinkspottywellies · 27/07/2008 20:31

Any cream on the scone FMV?

BBBee · 27/07/2008 20:39

raisins
strawberry jam
strawberry icecream

that is fine - PMT is like a joker card in its a knockout and times everyhtin by three anyway.

Oh god have got on one of those affair threads and am taking a bit of a beating - i got in these pickles when i first started mning and then realised which threads to avoid but seem to have forgotten.