"You're making a racket, children, settle down", groaned the teaching
assistant. "But I don't know how to make a tennis racket", responded Jaxon.
"I need to explain", the teaching assistant replied, "'making a racket'
means being noisy. It's what's known as an
idiom, where a phrase is used to to conjure up a picture
describing what's happening." "Oh, I get it", said Jaxon, "so you could
also have said 'you're all at full blast - calm down'". "Absolutely, Jaxon,
well done, 'at full blast' is another idiom for being noisy", replied the
teaching assistant, delighted to see Jaxon grasping the concept so quickly.
The teaching assistant had to get the noisy classroom to settle down
Alfonso was good at the long jump. But he was annoying sometimes when
he would swank about being able to jump
over the local chasm. One day he decided to
go and check it out, only to discover it was at the limit of his best jump
and the approach was far too uneven. He had to set about to
quash the boasts he'd made, making out he'd only been talking
in theory.
Alfonso was convinced he could jump this - until he checked it out!
Lois wAs an aRtist. To create the effect she wanted on
her latest work she separated some egg yolks from the white to make the
glair with the egg white to give it the
sheen she wanted. The effect was just right, with the shiny ice, the rippled
water effect and the magnificent polar bear looking straight
at the viewer. Satisfied she headed to the kitchen and had fried egg yolks
for lunch.
Touch Rugby is a gentler form of Rugby, though it can still be
noisy, especially if there is a crowd of
spectators cheering on their respective sides. It's a popular, inclusive
sport that emphasizes skill, agility, and teamwork, and can be
played by people of all ages and genders.
HERoutinely took the path around the curve, and past the
gorse bushes to his great-grandparent's
house to take in the scenes, scents and sounds of his origins. Rather
unfairly, some people gossiped about him heading off to spend time with his
whore. In fact one was so curious that she
bought a drone to observe what he was up to. But she didn't
have the knack to control it properly and it fell into the nearby lake and
was lost forever! This had been going on for months when his relative
(see 1441 - BORNE)
arrived at the location at the same time as he did. They were amazed to
discover their mutual journey purposes and swapped contact details so they
could get acquainted.
The new drone fell into the water and will probably not work again
The times weRe when the young men in their beefed up pickup
trucks would line up at the traffic lights on the
strip, revving their engines, and trying to
impress the gals. They would then roar away and try to be the first one to
get to the sharp corner and get their vehicle into a
drift as they rounded it. But that has all
changed now since the criminal gang dominates the area trying various types
of grift to swindle this one and that. Police cars regularly
patrol the area and the chances of playing the old game are long gone.
Although thE supermarket was open, it might as well have been closed.
They only had emergency power and that was prioritised to keeping the
chillers and freezers running. It was chaos at the checkouts with no power.
The staff shone a torch to enable them to
read the barcode since they couldn't swipe them across the sensor.
This had been ongoing for an hour because the member of staff who knew how
to restore power was on a skive and they were having to wait for
someone from another branch to get there. The staff were having to write
down each barcode number on a piece of paper. They then had to agree an
approximate price with the customer and write down their details to enable
them to settle up later. When each bill was agreed, it was put on a
spike. Most of the customers simply left
the store and went elsewhere. At last the person from the other store
swaggered in, dressed in a long raincoat with suede shoes,
looking very pleased with himself. He quickly got the power restored, but
then the poor staff had to go about entering all the bar codes in and
generating all the proper till receipts and attempting to contact the
customers to settle any differences.
Lois and Louis had snuck out of bed and crept down to the deserted kitchen
for a snack. They really fancied some ice-cream with walnuts on top.
Unfortunately the walnuts were still in their shells and it turned out to be
a noisy process as they started to
shuck them. They had only just finished and were about to tuck
into their secret snack when Mum appeared, having been disturbed by the
noise. Mum was none too pleased, but allowed them to enjoy their snack
before sending them back to bed, making it very clear that this would be the
last time this would happen.
The famiLy were having a lovely evening, until Grandma complained
that she was suffering with some colic,
which prompted young Tommy to say that he was convinced he was getting
polio. So much for the lovely evening. Dad
had to go and print off a folio leaflet on the symptoms of
polio so that Tommy could see that he had nothing of the sort. Getting back
to the 'lovely evening' proved rather difficult after that.
He was convinced there was a LARge fire nearby and charged off to
raise the alarm. But as he stepped outside, he realised it
was just the setting sun reflecting off the neighbour's front window. He
felt rather foolish and hoped no one noticed his panic.
ThERoute to her great-grandparents abandoned cottage was not
something she was sure she wanted to follow. She had an
eerie feeling that it would not end well.
She followed the instructions: "around the
curve and between the
gorse bushes". So far, so good. But should
she go further? There was this battle between the eerie feeling and the
desire to see the place. In the end, her desire was what she was
borne along by and she made it to the abandoned cottage. It
turned out to be not the least scary and she was glad she'd visited, being
able to see a few of the rooms and the odd piece of crockery and broken
furniture here and there. Her curiosity satisfied, she could return with a
sense of achievement.
Teresa was shocked to hear someone saying "You
noisybitch
". She turned round and saw a man and woman together and was so
incensed that she was about to give the man a shove into the nearby
ditch. But just then this barking dog did
pitch up with a stick in its mouth and Teresa realised the man
had been referring to the dog!
ALfred and Gertie lived next door to a large family of with six
lively children. "Why do they have to be so
noisy", exploded Alfred one morning, "it
makes me livid". "You were young and noisy once", responded
Gertie, "Calm down for the sake of your heart".
Alfred was livid with all the noise from next door
GRace had just been equipped with a violin by her school. She was
dying to show how she could play it to Mum and Dad and carefully applied the
rosin to the bow. Although Mum and Dad
applauded and smiled, deep down they groaned at the prospect of more of the
same! Dad particularly was forever seeking new ways to drown out the
screeching sound that Grace made as she practiced each night. One night, Dad
even pretended he'd not noticed Grace was practicing and put on headphones
and loudly sang in a croon style until Mum
gave him a hard dig in the ribs. But once Grace had grown a
little, the music she made became quite melodic and Mum and Dad could relax.
IT was a long time since he'd walk this bit of the path. It was now
very stony underfoot and the vegetation
either side was very thick. This meant that
the width of the gap left to walk along was
very small - it was only on his fifth attempt that he made it
through the gap.
BArnEy still lived at home with his paRents. His
parents were not happy about this and you can understand why. Whenever they
came home, Barney's music would be very loud and they would have to go into
his room and turn down the fader. Barney would be observed as this
vapid lump doing, well, not much really. Mum and Dad despaired him
ever forming a family with the prospect to spawn another Barney! They
were never quite sure if Barney was on a skive, or genuinely between
jobs. At lunch time he might appear to get some food. "Do you want some
cottage cheese with chive shoots fresh from
the garden", she might say, but Barney would typically reply "No, it's ok, I
have plenty of fudge upstairs", as he would
grab a packet of crisps and a can of coke. (As you can imagine, Barney was
not particularly slim!) In desperation, Dad said to Barney one day - "I'll
wager you £100 that you won't find a proper
job within six months" "You're on", brightened Barney as he went back
upstairs more lively than usual. That evening at the party, he was asking
anyone he could about getting work. Then he spotted a guy wearing a
pager and he pressed him for job
opportunities. The guy replied "Well, you're a bulky lad and this party
looks like it's going to become a rager and
might need some strong-arm tactics to restore order. Can you do that?" "Oh
yes", Barney quickly replied, delighted with the outcome. Before long some
party-goers started causing a stir when they swaggered in dressed as
jager with rifles and German military fatigues. Barney took control
and soon had them evicted, rather to Barney's surprise it must be said. That
night he earned two hundred pounds! He was determined to prove his Dad
wrong, so rather than spending it all straight away (as he usually did) he
felt the sager thing to do was to open a savings account with the
earnings. Before he could land the job that would satisfy his Dad, he
knuckled down to his biology studies. Today he was learning all about the
different types of gull. He was surprised to learn of the jager gulls
who effectively lived as bullies, chasing other gulls and making them
regurgitate their food for them to feed off. A week later, a contact from
the party contacted Barney telling him of a job as a trainee
gager. Barney was eager to do
this and went off for the job interview the next day. Mum and Dad noticed
the changes in Barney's behaviour and Dad had that sinking feeling that he'd
be coughing up the £100 pretty soon!
The birthday party had been noisy as was
bound to happen. At times like these, when the kids were finally
asleep, she liked to climb onto the
mound at the back of the garden and listen
to the 'magic' conch shell. Tonight as she
listened she was sure she heard the distant sounds of a
bongo being played and the soft voice of Inspector Mooney
talking through the impossible set of circumstances with his team.
Listening to the shell was a great stress reliever
As thE cook came back into the Room, she spied the
young lad put the last grape into his
already bulging mouth. "You rascal", she shouted as she started giving
chase. But the lad knew of a narrow chare to run down and which the
cook found was too crowded, and so he escaped - for now. As the cook got
back to the kitchen a bit out of breath she was muttering "I
sware that lad will feel the back of my
hand the next time I see him". "Did I hear you threatening violence cook",
came a voice from the doorway. "Oh sorry vicar", the startled cook
exclaimed, "I was not aware you were there". She felt
chastised and an uneasy truce ensued between the cook and the lad.
ThE hall was very noisy - and no
wonder, since this was where nurses were at work approaching each already
anxious baby to imbed a sharp needle into
the bicep of the child who promptly burst into loud yells. How the nurses
put up with this all day long, I can't imagine!
LEnny had decided to learn to yodel,
although his explanations to his wife seemed very tenuous. After the first
session, his wife demanded that he was out of the house when he practiced,
so Lenny headed to the garden shed. The first time he went there to practice
he spotted a piece of dowel that was just the right size to
fix the piece of bedroom furniture that had been wonky for 6 weeks. So in
the end, Lenny's wife was rather grateful for the yodelling!
"WhAT did you havE for breakfast, Oscar", Kevin asked. "Oh,
today I treated myself to an Aussie breakfast with
steak and eggs. What did you have". Kevin
replied "I had a piece of toast with yeast extract on top."
ThERe was much joyous laughter as the old folk talked about
their past. Observing a younger woman with her baby-kit heading off to
change a disposable nappy, they talked about the
terry-towelling nappies, nappy pins,
boiling the soiled ones, drying them on the outdoor line. "At least we
didn't generate so much waste in those days", one of them mused. Another one
started talking about the food they ate. "You know, tripe made
for a really fulfilling meal, even though the smell of making it was not all
that pleasant." And so, the conversation wandered through the recollections
of the past.
"Mark my words, there's going to be LAshings of rain in 10 minutes
time". "Oh, don't be so silly, it's a
lovely balmy evening with not a cloud in the sky". It was a
long 10 minutes as they stared at each other to see who would be correct.
Balmy Evening Landscape - Serene Painting by Gabrielė Prišmantaitė
As the workers toiled away, a military plane passed overhead sending
down a sonic boom. The workers shook their
fists at it, convinced it would hamper the growth of the
cacao pods. One of the workers, a
macho looking fellow called Carlos, threw his stick at the
aeroplane in a vain attempt at attacking it. All he achieved, however, was
to almost give a fellow worker a nasty clout as the stick fell back down to
earth!
All was quiet havesting the cacao pods until the military plane showed up
"I sTill can't get my head aRound you wanting to go out in
this driving rain to go fishing", remarked Mel as Gavin donned his
waterproofs and made his vacuum flask of tea. Gavin didn't reply - the
solitude and not having to explain to her in detail what he was doing were
part of the reason this was an ideal day! After three and a half hours, the
rain cleared and the fishing conditions became ideal. It wasn't long before
he'd caught a sizeable trout. He weighed and measured it, and
got someone to take a photo of him holding the fish before releasing it
back into the river.
The new employee wAs Told he had to sit at the machine and
watch as a batch of satin was woven
and rolled onto a cardboard core and eventually cut to length. And then it
would start all over again without anyone having to touch it. He was
beginning to wonder why he had to watch this, seeing as it appeared to be
all automatic. He quickly took a look round and saw the other employees
laughing at his expense. He realised he'd been quite the
patsy and had been taken in by their 'joke'. He hoped his new
job would get better after that!
The new employee was told to watch this automati machine
Mum hEard a loud noise from
upstairs. She crept upstairs hoping to work out whose room it
had come from. But both the kids were keeping as quiet as a mouse, hoping
that Mum wouldn't see what they were up to because they knew they'd be in
trouble if she saw them! But after two minutes, Sophie couldn't hold onto
the shelving unit any longer and she had to let it completely collapse.
Sophie was in trouble …
Sophie couldn't hold onto the collapsing shelving unit any more
GAvin was sTarving so hE tucked into his
steak with great gusto. Also, he needed to
revise for his upcoming maths exam and finishing his meal early meant he
could get back to studying his diagrams and making sure he knew just what
each α, β, γ, θ, φ, etc meant (that's alpha, beta, gamma,
theta, phi, etc). After 4 solid days of
studying he'd now become quite adept and was fairly confident
as he walked into the exam room.
He was pLEased to get back to woRk. He was aware that only he
could complete what he had started, so he picked up his screwdriver set, his
hammer and his plier wrench set and headed back to the mechanism. It
was here that, two days ago he realised he was
iller than he'd cared to admit first thing
and he'd had to get some medical attention. Now he could get back to the job
and swap out the idler gear for a new one and get the machine
back working again.
