Drinking tea? The thin end of the wedge?

jeni, my dad would have approved of you dictionary prize. Why? He was always grumbling that his scientists couldn't write English.
(Present company excepted of course.)

“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around,
And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.”
William Cowper



He said' I said a few words mainly beginning with the earlier letters of the alphabet

Hey! I've just done my first copy and paste.

alie that's why I chose it! I had 'the Oxford companion to English literature' for the best results at O level prize.

Now, I remember. Even then I thought he was being priggish.

I don't think it would have been allowed at my school otherwise!

jeni my profile page is right except i'm now a year older than the page. I think we all took exams young in that form-I remember three of us having to resit part of the 11+ because we had passed it young.Called out of the class as tho' we had been naughty. I don't think I've lived up to my earlier promise.I would do a sad emoticon but i'm not serious about that

I'm 68 just born in December.
Where did you go to school?