Mutterings - March 31

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

1. Mailbox :: Post (either what goes in it or what supports the traditional US form)
2. Creamy :: Yogurt
3. Deal :: Fair
4. Eyeglasses :: Sea view
5. Bag :: Grab (as in 'to bag' something)
6. People :: Individuals
7. Candy :: Man
8. Orange :: Chocolate
9. Frosting :: Lemon
10. Surrender :: Hands-up

Mutterings - March 24

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

1. Taco :: Bell
2. Serve :: Table
3. Cubicle :: Computer
4. Moonlighting :: Grimes (I've just heard the Britten 4 sea interludes with it's invocation of moonlight on the sea)
5. Creaky :: Bones
6. Bittersweet :: Coward (Nöel)
7. Hop :: Beer
8. Install :: Script
9. Quick :: Dead
10. Hybrid :: Plant

Teaser Tuesday - Mar 19

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 yellow medallion on the carpet was glowing like a jewel. Kitty, wearing a long peacock-blue evening dress with a pendant hood, was gazing at me.

And back to Murdoch's A Word Child, her novel on forgiveness viewed through the eyes of a deeply difficult individual - there's times when you really want to shout at the 'hero'. Just before this post I got directed (by @christineburns) to this article on the NHS website picking up the forgiveness theme.

Bollington

Bollington, a photo by rajmarshall on Flickr.

This afternoon we had Sunday lunch at the Vale Inn and the a walk around the village using one of the routes in their walk book. We were researching a route for a walk I'm leading in May, I think it'll need a bit cutting off the route if it's to fit in the constraints of an evening walk (followed by chips!) - but I think a shortcut will be straightforward!

Mutterings - March 17

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

1. Sweetpea :: Trellis
2. Fuss :: Bother
3. Stocky :: Build
4. Reason :: Loss (of)
5. Humble :: Monk
6. Purposeful :: Determine
7. Week :: End of
8. Intimidate :: Bluster
9. Choice :: Free
10. Coming home :: Joy

Teaser Tuesday - March 12

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!

Yes I know it's not tuesday and not 12th March - I've been away and I took this book with me:

It was this realization along with the fact that he was in M. Dupont's room, presumably addressing this most crucial personage, that caused me to stop my hand from knocking, and continue to listen instead.
The bedroom doors of Dartington Hall are of a certain thickness and I could by no means hear complete exchanges, consequently it is hard for me now to recall precisely what I overheard, just as, indeed, it was for me later that same evening when I reported to his lordship on the matter.

What the butler heard.. from Kazuo Ishiguro's getting under the skin of the 1930's English ruling class in The Remains of the Day -our book group book of the month.

Mutterings - March 10

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

1. Align :: Planets
2. Collar :: Feel
3. Orphan :: Annie
4. Program :: Start (or should that be begin?)
5. Waves :: Make
6. Accident :: Ambulance
7. Offices :: Corrupt
8. Corrupt :: Absolutely (I don't think my eyes drifted down with the previous association!)
9. Tears :: Fears
10. Family :: Home

Mutterings - March 3

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

1. Schedule :: Work
2. Guest :: Table (George Herbert also lurks!)
3. Stall :: Horse
4. Cold :: Ice
5. Editorial :: Column
6. Striped :: Pajamas
7. Curtains :: Death
8. Cramping :: Style
9. March :: Rhythm (and Death again!)
10. Folder :: Filing