I like Pratchett's own description of them...

The novel’s main protagonists are, in the author’s words, "like Glasgow Smurfs who have seen Braveheart too many times. There is nobody they won’t fight... and they don’t mind a drink or two".

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so i'm sitting in hospital awaiting the birth of my son. i was brought in a week before he arrived due to my high blood pressure. i ask my husband to bring me a book, any book. i'm bored with the four walls and the pregnant women.

"sure, hon, i'll bring you the wee free men, it's really good.", says he.

i bite my tongue, i don't want to read it because i haven't finished the other older books yet. but i'll read anything!!!

two days later, i've finished the book.

"that was blooming fantastic!!!", says i.

i loved everything in this book. the nacmacfeegles, tiffany, the queen. so i got hat full of sky and read it too. it wasn't as good, but i still enjoyed it.

www.paulkidby.com is selling nacmacfeegles. check out the t-shirt feegle spotting -

What a choice! No honestly, perfectly reasonable...

I always surprised myself by actually being able to read what they say, despite it being not exactly the English you learn at school...

As opposed to Doors, who didn't realize they were speaking differently until someone pointed it out to him.

Can anybody explain me what does [i:34c6d85d0c]it [/i:34c6d85d0c]mean or write this using another words. Especially greebs nad hoggets. I have no idea where can I find meaning of these.[size=9:34c6d85d0c] [yep, I'm not Ehglish ] [/size:34c6d85d0c]:

[quote:34c6d85d0c]Cloggets are a trembling of the greebs in hoggets.[/quote:34c6d85d0c]

The point of that is to be indecipherable by normal people. The idea is that it's shepherd jargon, and very local jargon at that. Hogget is a term for a female sheep. Greebs and cloggets are either very obscure, or else made up.

[quote:1606e7ff59="Ba"]The point of that is to be indecipherable by normal people. The idea is that it's shepherd jargon, and very local jargon at that. Hogget is a term for a female sheep. Greebs and cloggets are either very obscure, or else made up.[/quote:1606e7ff59]

I know that a Greeb is a type of river/lake based waterfowl, but of course this knowledge may be entirely irrelevant.

I don't have the book immediately to hand to check the context, but it sounds to me like the description of a sheep disease (cloggets) - symptoms being a trembling of the "greebs" - presumably a PTerry invention - in female sheep (hoggets) - possibly related to Licky End - normally only found in pregnant sheep, but Gaspode suffers from it!

Given the dragon diseases that PTerry has come up with, this disease sounds fairly straightforward.

Oh, and the bird is a grebe, not a greeb.

Being a Cotswolds girl myself, I thought the use of rolling green chalk hills, sheep and white horses was the best bit...


But then, that's just me being sentimental

I grew up in SA so we dont hav many hills and if we did they were in the middle of nowere, but they were anything but green, more a dusty browny color.

i have just heard from a live web chat that Terry Prachett is finashing the next book of the wee free men im so happy

thats cool,, do u know wat its called or anything about it?

The Wee Free Men are the coolest little folk around. Recently spend 9 months at work in a project room with their pic sat on my project board ( all the other stuff on the board was of little interest ).

I just started reading this book myself, not too far into it but I think it sounds pretty cool so far.