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My biology teacher once wrote "Try to avoid anthropomorphism" on my essay on bees, ants and wasps. And I have xx

Your biology teacher wouldn't have liked Beatrix Potter, then !

Hello, Elle!
I was trying to remember the clue.
"Lame" and "game" can mean the same thing, as in limping with a bad leg.
Sorry for confusing you with "halt"!
Is that better?

Hello again, Elle!
Just to convince myself that "game" can mean "lame" (it does), I looked up "game" in Chambers, and discovered that it can mean "a group of swans".
New to me!

Elle, sorry to ruin your romantic convictions - I don't see why
Laddie should remain faithful if Lassie is behaving like a
"courtisane' - unless she was having her own back on Laddie's
behaviour in the first place......? Who knows.....

Hello, Elle and Pigale!
What you are witnessing is Nature in the raw.
It is not a Mills and Boon romance at the loch!

rusty
That is the best laugh I have had all day!

Hello, Jazzgirl!
I am beginning to worry about those two!

Hi, Rusty!
Not to worry, we sorted it in the end!
"Game" meaning "lame" is new to me, although I know "gammy."
I, also, did not know that "game" referred to a group of swans.
I 'd known "bevy" or "herd" as a general term, and "flight" or "wedge" when in flying.
We have just finished dinner - spag bol - and the boys have just gone to get ready for bed.
I think a game before they finally go to sleep might be in order.....
I forgot to put the recorder on, to see if there is any Athletics!

Do not worry about Pigale and me......we are but talking "tongue in cheek"!

Hello, Elle,
I was beginning to wonder if Pigale and you would be knitting wee bootees for the baby birds!
Or cosy wee matinee jackets!
"Gammy" comes from "game", Elle, says Chambers, but they don't know where "game" comes from.
Any time I looked in on the Games, there was bowls, or netball, or another sport.
Hardly any athletics!
What kind of game will you play at with the family?