Comments on: Not Sally, Carrie Anne or Peggy Sue

By: simon smith

simon smith — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:54:37 +0000

Trouble is….

There was one,but it`s been Photoshopped out any case they lose sponsorship.

By: Neil G

Neil G — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:49:32 +0000

My goodness. I’d forgotten that they used to play football in mud baths. All that’s missing there is a dog on the pitch.

By: simon smith

simon smith — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:20:24 +0000

Just a doff of the cap to NB’s google-proof genius for the Ronnie Boyce line. My wife asked if Ronnie, being a 60-s/early 70-s footballer, was in the thrall of hallucinogenics. I informed her it was a cute reference to Boyce retorting to a lacklustre (if still forty yard long) goalkick from the hands of Man City’s ogre/lummox Joe Corrigan with an insouciant volley straight back into the middle of the goal that Joltin’ Joe was still five yards to the right from. It may even be on YouTube.

It is. It’s here at 0:36-0:43. Quite far out.

By: Swanaldo

Swanaldo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:28:32 +0000

Their glade.

Trellis in.

Undecided on the ‘bad gets worse’/'back gets worse’ argument now. (Yes, I’m backing down)

Great song though, and makes it onto a lot of my ‘in the car’ CDs, along with ‘Restless Legs’

By: chesneywold

chesneywold — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:30:10 +0000

isnt it ‘their’ glade. It belongs to the fauns like. Man what a beautiful song it is. As dense and fecund as i imagine the glade to be. i hate the arctic monkeys, make me sick.

By: Swanaldo

Swanaldo — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:04:59 +0000

I prefer the “When the back gets worse” argument, conjuring up a matronly physiotherapist by the name of Joyce.

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:47:46 +0000

I’m sure it’s “busy with trellis in the yard” Not sure why there’s no a or the. I would also go with “bad gets worse” rather than “back gets worse.”

Maybe Nigel wouldn’t have written the song if he’d checked out “After Bathing At Baxter’s” by Jefferson Airplane, which includes a splendid track called Rejoyce,

By: Chris The Siteowner

Chris The Siteowner — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:18:32 +0000

Listened to it again, and “with” still sounds right to me – and “busy with” + verb is pretty standard, at least where I come from (which is much nearer Chatteris than NB57′s house, it’s true).

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:35:58 +0000

If it was ‘trellising’ there wouldn’t be a ‘with’, surely?

“I was busy trellising the yard” would be ok, but “busy WITH trellising the yard” seems a bit awkward grammatically. Another vote for “trellis IN the yard” from me.

By: Neil G

Neil G — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:06:06 +0000

I have to disagree with Dave F. regarding ‘trellising’. I accept that trellis can be used as a verb but its meaning, according to http://www.yourdictionary.com/trellis is

1. to furnish with or train on a trellis
2. to cross or interweave like a trellis.

Since you cannot train a yard or interweave a yard, I’m sticking with ‘trellis in the yard’.