I’d never heard of the word until my friend Anne Rainbow sent me the definition, saying she thought I might like it for this blog. She was right!

 

 

 

 

 

 

As futurity means ‘time to come’ the start of a new year seems the perfect moment to mention it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There’s also a plural form of the word – futurities – which refers to future events or prospects.

 

 

 

 

 

I do hope that 2024 holds many wonderful futurities for us all. With luck, some of mine will involve travelling to interesting historical sights.

Campervanners often have to rummage. It can mean to search untidily and unsystematically. It doesn’t matter how tidily and systematically you pack your van, that kind of approach never works when it comes to finding the corkscrew and chocolate.

A rummage can be a confused miscellaneous collection. A rummager is someone who rummages. Once you’ve finished rummaging you will have rummaged for long enough.

To rummage out is to find amongst other things. To rummage about is to disarrange. (That’s another good word)

Rummage also refers to the arrangement of casks in the hold of a ship. That definitely needs to be done tidily and systematically or the ship will become unstable. Also it’ll mean the sailors have to rummage about to find their rum.

A crag is a steep or rugged rock. Craggy can refer to a human face or the landscape and means rugged or rough textured. There are other versions of the word, for example in Scotland* the scenery got craggier as we approached the highlands, it was craggiest on Skye where the landscape is craggily magnificent.

Btw the pictures are all to illustrate craggy landscapes. It’s purely coincidental that the same photographer just happens to be in all of them not long after remarking on the size of my bum.

*yes I have been to Scotland. I have some pictures if you’d like to see them …