Test your skill........

[Maggi Young]

Tough, Mark! I can line up any number of Dutchmen to say he is!

[Martin Baxendale]

I dont believe Gerard Parker is there

Mark, I think Gerard Parker is the fat one in the bottom pic of Maggi's series of individual photos (hang on, it's the bottom one on my screen, but I have latest posts at the top of the page, so it may also appear as the...) it's Maggi's individual pic no. G.09 - or at about 8 o'clock on the big pic.

I think it's like the photo Kristina showed for ID on another thread - a youngish flower of Gerard Parker, with the claws not yet fully developed - but you can just about make out the mark.

[Martin Baxendale]

No, make that 9 o'clock on the big pic of the vase - just behind the Magnet flower.

[Paddy Tobin]

Referring back to the comments from Tony and Franz, some might also say that there are only two types of snowdrops: the ones I have and the ones I want to get.

Paddy

[ranunculus]

....or big ones and little ones Paddy....but I'm a Philistine!!

[Martin Baxendale]

I can't spare any more time for this little quiz. Have to get back to persuading people to buy more of my books. Ooh, I know .....BUY MY BOOKS OR I'LL SEND MAGGI ROUND TO RUN OVER YOU IN HER LITTLE TANK! That should work.

[ranunculus]

Tanks for that Martin.....

[ranunculus]

You missed one little word off the end of that underlined sentence Martin.......top!   

[Anthony Darby]

I can't spare any more time for this little quiz. Have to get back to persuading people to buy more of my books. Ooh, I know .....BUY MY BOOKS OR I'LL SEND MAGGI ROUND TO RUN OVER YOU IN HER LITTLE TANK! That should work.

My sister's bidey-in (or officially bidey-nearby) has a Scorpion tank and he's closer to you than Maggi Martin, as he lives in Essex.

[ranunculus]

Does he suffer from caterpillars Anthony?

[Martin Baxendale]

My sister's bidey-in (or officially bidey-nearby) has a Scorpion tank and he's closer to you than Maggi Martin, as he lives in Essex.
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Bidey-in? Okay, that's another one I think you'll have to explain for the non-Scots-speaking forumists. Is it a lodger?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Again, there's more than one skill being tested here .... 

[Martin Baxendale]

My favourite Scots phrase has always been (I think I heard it when I was a kid in Broughty Ferry) - "D'ye fancy a quick feelie up the close?" Explain that one to the non-Scots, if you dare, Anthony! 

[Martin Baxendale]

It has a literal meaning and a double-entendre meaning.

[Anthony Darby]

'Bidey-in' is a partner of the non-business kind - usually when a lady talks about her live-in boyfriend or vice versa.

A 'close' is a passage running from the street to the backyard in a tenement with doors off leading to the ground floor flats. Neighbours would talk about each other by saying "he/she's fae up oor close". Of course, it does have another meaning. I'll leave you to work out what the person's intentions regarding the aforementioned (or any other) passage would be.