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		<title>There’s none so queer as folks [idioms]</title>
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		<dc:creator>Madeline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He accosts me in the kitchen, burbling, the same phrase over and over. “It’s not good dear. I can’t understand a word you’re saying. It’s sounds as if you have a mouthful of marbles.” He skips the next repeat, cups the palm of his hand before he spits out a large green stone, heart shaped, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He accosts me in the kitchen, burbling, the same phrase over and over.<br />
“It’s not good dear.  I can’t understand a word you’re saying.  It’s sounds as if you have a mouthful of marbles.”  He skips the next repeat, cups the palm of his hand before he spits out a large green stone, heart shaped, spittle covered, “does <span style="font-style:italic;">‘my heart’s in my mouth’</span> be meaning ‘I’m in love’?”<br />
“Yes, it does.  Why?  Are you in love with someone?”<br />
“No…..it doesn’t work &#8211; I wuz just checkin.”<br />
“!”</p>
<p>Without pausing for breath he’s off on another tangent.</p>
<p>“Ooo dats bad.”<br />
“What’s bad dear?”<br />
“Dat white stuff in yur hairs.”<br />
“Ah, yes it exploded – I was lucky not to get burned.”<br />
“Yuck it smells even badderer.”<br />
“Yes, acrid charring is never pleasant.”<br />
“Ooo dere is being dandruff all over your body.”<br />
“I think I may as well give up and change, maybe shower.”<br />
“Dere is being snow all over the kitchens – it is being like a winter wonderland!”<br />
“You would never think that three exploding Chestnuts could do quite so much damage really.”<br />
“Armageddon……..but smellier.”<br />
“!”<br />
I step to one side to retrieve the dust buster as my daughter skitters into the kitchen to whisper to her little brother, although not quietly enough:-</p>
<p>“Cun you remember what Mom said she’s cookin tonight for dinner?”<br />
“Yes.”<br />
“Well?  What’s she cookin then?”<br />
“Bad.”<br />
“No.  What’s it’s name?  Chest Nut what?  If I ask again she’ll have my guts for garters.”<br />
“No.  Not guts.  I seened it wiv my eyes.”<br />
“So what is it then?”<br />
“Smashed to smithereens&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.dah brains of small dead creatures.”</p>
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