Palaver: idle talk; also, to talk idly.

SUPER NANNY HAS BEEN USING "PALAVER" THE WRONG WAY ALL THIS TIME.

I don't think I'm all that good at palaver, to be honest. I presume I have a well of life experiences stored away inside me somewhere, but it never seems to be accessible as I'm engaged in conversation with some new and therefore SCARY person. It runs dry in seconds, no matter how frantically I lower the metaphorical bucket to ensure I have something pertinent to say when the other person finishes their completely engaging tale about that time they had to spend a night sleeping in a park in Tokyo and all I end up with is how I quite like a bit of eel now and then.

This was meant to be some sort of free association writing thing where I get a word and then write about it to go off on some exciting tangent, but that didn't happen. Which just goes to show how bad at palaver I really am.