To misremember is to remember incorrectly or imperfectly, or to forget. I misremember if I’ve shown you these pictures before …
Wednesday word of the week – Misremember
Author: patsy
Wednesday word of the week – Mellow
Something which is mellow is soft, rich and free from harshness, particularly where our senses are involved. If we’re mellow, we’re either softened by age and experience – or by alcohol! (A nice mellow shiraz, perhaps?)
When describing fruit it meand soft, sweet and juicy. Mellow soil is rich and loamy.
I took this picture of my and Gary’s shadows in the mellow evening light. (That’s not snow but chalk – the light breeze was mellow too.) I *may* have drunk some wine when we returned to the van after our walk.
Very friendly!
I currently have a story in both The People’s Friend Weekly magazine, and the special. In all the remains Louisa wants to do one last thing for her old friend and discovers the old lady had felt much the same way – although her nephew feels very differently.
Heart and Home is set in the fictional Moitlet Hall. Isn’t that illustration lovely? It’s even prettier than my own vision of the place!
Did you spot that Moitlet Hall is almost an anagram of Little Mallow?
Wednesday word of the week – Tumultuousness
Tumultuousness is a long word, so I’ll build up to it …
A tumult is an uproar or noise, an angry demonstration or disturbance or a conflict of emotions in the mind.
Tumultuous is disorderly, noisily agitated or making a tumult. If you’re being those things, you’ll be acting tumultuously and demonstrating tumultuousness.
Waterfalls are a tumultuous torrent of water.
Can you imagine the tumult of emotions the pixies experienced when Gary knocked on their door? He only tapped gently, but to them it probably sounded like a tumultuous racket.
Wednesday word of the week – Yegg
Go on, guess what a yegg is …
It’s a travelling burglar or safe breaker. Didn’t get it, did you?
We do a lot of travelling, but just about the only thing I take is photos. I like to think I do that with flare 😉
Just Two Months
I’m very pleased to have a story in the August 22nd issue of Ireland’s Own. It features women making enormous cakes – it’s so hard to know where I get my ideas from!
Wednesday word of the week – Flintlock
A flintlock is an old type of gun which requires the spark from a flint to fire. It can also mean the device used to produce that spark.
There were flintlock rifles as well as much larger guns which could fire shots weighing up to 32 lb on board HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar.
I didn’t get to keep any description of gun (nor that hat, sadly) but I do have the jacket and a piece of flint just like those which would have been used in a flintlock.
Wednesday word of the week – proclivity
A proclivity is a tendency or an inclination. For example, I have a proclivity to eat cake and wear purple. So much so that I even did both at our wedding – which was a little over thirteen years ago! Doesn’t seem so long.
I was able to stand unaided, we were just pretending that even wearing heels I’m considerably shorter than Gary. Why we were doing that I have no idea. Perhaps we just have a proclivity to be daft?
Care to share any of your proclivities with me?
Lee lit fest
I was one of 12 authors involved in the first ever literary festival in my home town of Lee-on-the-Solent (Hampshire UK) yesterday. Here I am watching the mayor and The Bookshop owner Sarah, open the event.
Wednesday word of the week – Concretize
Concretize means to make something concrete rather than abstract. Concrete in this case meaning ‘existing in material form’ not a mix of sand and cement.
Actually getting on and writing your story, as opposed to just day dreaming about seeing it in a bookshop, will concretize your brilliant idea into something you can submit for publication.
Concretize may also be spelled as concretise.
(This is an old photo of the booksigning for my first ever published book. It’s now available in a newer edition.)