Longer in the translation, you don't know the half because I sure don't.
It took about an hour to write in a moment of weakness and has taken over two to translate the following and that was with the assistance of the lexicon. OK, aid of the dictionary.
straw splints Straw is what remains when wheat or rice has been harvested. It is the stalks of the plant as well as the empty heads.
A splint is usually a piece of wood or something rigid that is used to make something stronger, give it support and stops it from moving so it mends properly. When a leg is broken a splint is taped to the leg and this gives it support making it strong enough to use for walking.
Mishaps Accidents.
Crow Carriers Inc. The delivery and despatch Company run by the crows
Worm bellygraph. Teleghaph. A type of communication system in the animal world.
Wiley. Usually means crafty, clever.
Weasels. A small animal related to the Stoat. They have long bodies, necks and tails. They differ from rats because they have very long necks.
Wanderlust Vacation. A discovery holiday where a someone tries to discover who they really are because they have a great desire to travel and see the world.
Dandelion Clock. The Dandelion is a plant with a yellow flower head. The head goes to seed when it had finished flowering and turns into a huge white head of tiny seeds that blow away in the wind and then form the next dandelion plants when they fall to the ground. In England a seed head like this was blown to tell what the time was, not accurately though! The seeds are soft and fluffy. When a Dandelion stem is broken it has a white substance inside which is sticky and looks just like milk. The seeds also look like tiny wings.
Fairy wings. Very fine seeds from the dandelion seed head.
Rapidly set. Went hard quickly.
Rapidly. Quickly
Set. Went hard or turned solid from a liquid state.
Frantic. Wild, irritated, worried.
Offending. It is something that should not be where it is. It causes irritation or hurt.
Mixture. A blend. Offending Mixture is a blend that was somewhere where it was not wanted or should not have been.
Stuck fast. Glued firmly.
Weasel Wanderlust Tour Guide. The person in charge of a people on a Wanderlust tour or holiday.
Tool of Freedom. The instrument that was used to free whatever or whoever was caught or trapped.
Faraway Forest. A large wooded area that is a long way away. It is a name for this forest.
Caring. Someone who is thoughtful or worries about others safety or wellbeing is a caring person.
Courier. Tour guide. Leader.
Similar manner. In a similar way or fashion. In a way that is nearly the same or similar.
Barley beards. As straw is left from the harvesting of grain crops so is the husk or empty seed heads. Barley is a type of grain which has tufts growing with the grain on the seedhead. These tufts are called beards.
Dizzy-O-Therapist. A person who stops anyone going around in circles.
False and real feelers. Replacement and original whiskers.
Recriminations. When people blame each other this process is called recrimination.
Culprits. The guilty person who is the cause of the trouble.
This is only excerpts from two chapters so the light at the end of the tunnel is a long way off whereas 23rd February is nearly upon us and the reason for this frantic translative flurry.
Well, it would help if people on Slap and Tickle could understand, "I do not do Tickle anymore" rather than send me messages they never bothered to send before in the course of the last six months. I will never understand human nature or the English language, so there it is, the whole thing is soul destroying trying to do just that. Well, I needed a break and where better than a friendly bar
