Mutterings - 29th April

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Background :: Music
2. Performance :: Art
3. Husband :: Preserve
4. Scaffolding :: Contractor
5. Third :: Man
6. Stirring :: Soup
7. Slogan :: Shout
8. Odor :: Eater
9. Accent :: Foreign
10. Suspicion :: Paranoia

Evening light on the Liffey

Evening light on the Liffey, a photo by rajmarshall on Flickr.

Last weekend we spent in Dublin - the first visit over there for us. Two days were spent seeing the sights of Dublin fairly gently. Then on Sunday after a trip round the National Gallery we had a drive down towards Wicklow seeing the coast and the hills.
We ate twice (so the re-experience was welcome) at one of Wallace's Italian winebars close to the Liffey (the Taverna)and one evening at 101 Talbot - which had a good mix of meat and veggie on the menu. More pictures from the trip on flickr!

Mutterings - 15th April

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Message :: Bottle
2. Underground :: Magazine
3. Hurting :: Working
4. Glasses :: Passes
5. Wholesome :: Food
6. Garden :: Plants
7. Plants :: Feet
8. Windows :: Light
9. Beard :: Fur
10. Encryption :: Pass Phrase

Teaser Tuesday - 10 April

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

She scanned the note that came with it. Rainer wondered, following on from their meeting at the Residency, whether Nerys might be free to visit him at home for a drink?

Following on from last week, another teaser from Rosie Thomas' The Kashmir Shawl - you'll just have to guess what 'it' is!

Mutterings - 8th April

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Justice :: Court
2. Catching :: Flies
3. Date :: Easter
4. Horoscope :: Bewlidering (this is a quote from Britten's PeterGrimes)
5. Jerry :: Can! (definitely British news here)
6. 21 :: Party
7. Paper :: Scissors
8. Holistic :: Therapy
9. Ghostly :: Shape
10. Movie :: Old

VAT and Listed buildings

The recent budget is proposing to remove the zero rating of VAT on alterations to listed buildings, this is going to cost some churches a lot of money, Wakefield cathedral is having to stump up another £200000 before their current work can proceed - enter the youtube above and Pamela Greener, the wife of the dean with a song - I posted this on facebook but if you don't know me there - here it is! For UK voters, there's a petition on the govenment website!
I kept expecting a hard-hatted chorus to enter from behind the singer....

Teaser Tuesday - 3rd April

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

The tantrum abruptly faded as curiosity took over. As soon as she had the little girl's full attention Mair drew a breath, gathered herself up and executed a standing back-flip.

Our latest book group (BATS) book Rosie Thomas' The Kashmir Shawl - a tale of travel and family history. Here's a review and here's the author writing about a visit to the pashmina workshops in Kashmir.

Mutterings - 1st April

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Whispering :: Bob Harris
2. Braided :: Hair
3. Ruin :: Castle (and une ruine coquille vide (Eluard))
4. Parasite :: Tick
5. Mineral :: Water
6. Engines :: Fearsome (no I see that should be Feersum - Iain Banks)
7. Buddy :: Support
8. Tic :: Twitch
9. Small :: Empty
10. Tackled :: Rugby