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Wyn Drabble: Still in search of penguins
19 May, 2021 06:00 PM
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Wyn Drabble is on the lookout for penguins. Photo / NZME
NZ Herald
In his book Land of Two Halves, Joe Bennett said, Oamaru is Timaru with penguins.
Well, not any more. Timaru has its own penguins and they are at the port end of Caroline Bay. Timaru s penguins even have a website and from it I learned all the collective terms that can be used for penguins. I can t vouch for their accuracy but I m willing to take the list at face value (please don t write in).
The most common collective is colony but apparently you can also use parade, crèche, huddle, parcel, rookery, muster, formality, icing, march, pride, shiver, waddle (on land only) and raft (in water only).
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Original mods liked jazz. That’s where the word came from: modernism. In Britain, the beef between mods and rockers had been prefigured in the 50s by modernists – fans of modern jazz – vs traditionalists – acolytes of trad, Dad. I don’t know if this amounted to bike chains on Margate beach (BAM! SOCK! WHAM! THAT’S FOR PLAYING 42 CHORUSES OF TIGER RAG!) but the argument was heartfelt. I’m not quite old enough to remember this in person, but my musical memory stretches back as far as my mum and dad buying the Acker Bilk & His Paramount Jazzmen album with the multicoloured typography, and I can just about appreciate the smiling style of Kenny Ball. But if I had to choose a side, my jazzy sympathies would lie with the modernist fraternity.