Zymology is the scientific study of fermentation.
I don’t do this, but I do sometimes study the results in a very unscientific way.
Cheers!
Wednesday word of the week – Zymology
Wednesday word of the week – Hobbledehoy
A hobbledehoy is a clumsy or awkward youth. I was one of them a loooong time ago, though I don’t recall being referred to as such.
Is there a term for a similar adult? If so, that’ll be me now.
I won a literary prize! (sort of)
I haven’t won a prize for my own writing (not lately anyway, although I have entered a few competitions so maybe I will). Instead I’ve won a selection of books by Margaret Holbrook, who ran a draw on her website.
When Margaret offered to post the books to me I explained we were on our travels in the mobile writing retreat / campervan. We realised I’d be passing fairly close to where Margaret lives. As that’s near RHS garden Bridgewater that seemed the ideal place to meet – they don’t just have plants, but also a coffee shop with cake.
I hope you’re impressed with how well we co-ordinate with the planting scheme. I can’t tell you why I look windswept and Margaret doesn’t. I can’t tell you about the books as I haven’t read them yet – I’m looking forward to doing that. I could tell you how many chocolates are left from the box which was also part of the prize, but I’m not going to!
Wednesday word of the week – Misremember
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 – 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.