James emailed me to agree that a group of monkeys was a troop or troupe. However, he added that I had of course missed a barrel of monkeys, as in "more fun than a barrel of monkeys?" of course. How could I forget that? Silly me. Anyway, thank you James, oh and sorry that I'm a bit behind in emailing you, I will reply soon.
And This one says band or troop. Hmm, definitely looking like Troop.
Right, I decided to try Ask Oxford to put an end to my ponderings and as interesting as a machination of monkeys sounds, it does seem to be wrong, the terms provided here for the name of a group of monkeys are: cartload/tribe/troop or wilderness, which it says is possibly fanciful.
Helen has been talking about me again, so I thought I'd better reply, she said:
I didn't say I liked Blur, I just said that I do like some Blur songs, that I don't necessarily hate them, I wouldn't go as far as to say I liked Blur. I think I thought you were mean because you were assuming I won't like certain music when I haven't actually heard it. I might. I mean, admittedly you're usually right, but it's possible that I wouldn't hate something. However, it's entirely possible that I didn't really think you were being mean at all and was just whinging for the sake of it. Yes, I'm an annoying whingebum.