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[salty]

Just realised - perhaps that’s why I’m missing things if I’m using colander and the notes are falling through ?

Jacket ??

Yes.

 

[Everest]

Just realised - perhaps that’s why I’m missing things if I’m using colander and the notes are falling through ?

you should be using a strainer, rather than a colander, to hold in those little unimportant appointments

 

[Archev]

you should be using a strainer, rather than a colander, to hold in those little unimportant appointments

I thought strainers were fencing accoutrements

 

[siteguru]

you should be using a strainer,

I thought that was an expression describing someone with constipation?

Here I sit broken-hearted
Strained and strained yet only farted

 

[LenEV2016]

Well, as @Rolfe's away and @siteguru is a bit tardy defrosting his bus, thought I better do the "bold underline italics" thing so people don't think @salty is referring to his colander in the kitchen...

... and, for completeness:-

• there's inappropriate use of commas
• kitchen is not a proper noun hence does not require capitalisation

I'm doing alright for English as a second language

 

[Rolfe]

It's "all right". Our English teacher Mrs McConnell would have had your guts for garters for that one.

 

[siteguru]

My old English teacher's favourite was from Star Trek ... To boldly go ... oh no, says she ... the correct form is To go boldly.

 

[Everest]

And don't forget that prepositions should not be used to end a sentence with

 

[tsedge]

And don't forget that prepositions should not be used to end a sentence with

That's an old rule that is more honoured in the breach than the observance, isn't it?

 

[Everest]

That's an old rule that is more honoured in the breach than the observance, isn't it?

Yes, but... this is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

(with apologies to Churchill)

 

[LenEV2016]

Yes, but... this is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

(with apologies to Churchill)

Beyond me

 

[Ian Key]

Yes, but... this is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

(with apologies to Churchill)

 

[LenEV2016]

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Suits you sir

 

[Archev]

Suits you sir

The very man - and no Spitfires needed with lugs like that.

 

[tsedge]

Beyond me

It is a famous phrase of Churchill's that he used to ridicule those who insisted we didn't put prepositions at the end of sentences. He broke all the rules and revelled in it.