Listen very carefully because I'm only going to say this twice.

"Biometrics is very important. Biometrics is very important." That's what the coach said to the kids Friday afternoon and again today.

Hmm... Bio- means "life"; metr- means "measure"; -ic is just a suffix we English-speakers put on the end so we don't sound like the French, who tend to swallow the last syllables of their words -- and no puns about "swallowing your r's"; this is a high-class blog, thank you very much.

Oh, who am I kidding? Around here, the more puns, the better -- or is that the more puns, the badder?

It looked more to me like a group of athletic campers, not wildlife campers, to me. What does measuring life have to do with sports? Oh well, maybe they were exercising before an annual bird count or something. Then again, if you're going to count lions or something, it might be very important that you're in excellent physical condition. (And, if you can't outrun a lion, at least you'll provide good muscle for her to eat.)

The coach also told them to do "power skips", which have to be "explosive, explosive, not like you're skipping through the flowers, through the flowers".

First, he reminded me of the Currie sisters in the Hamish Macbeth mystery series. One of them always echoes the end of everything her sister says.

Then I thought of Tiny Tim (the singer, not the Dickens character). Except, instead of tiptoing through tulips, more like this...