Nutterings - Sep 29

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

1. Spirits :: Vodka
2. Admit :: Entrance
3. Gift :: Wrap
4. Barry :: Wales
5. Dredge :: Bucket
6. Pajamas :: Nightie
7. Cheating :: Unfair
8. Information :: Table
9. Ivory :: Tusk
10. Past :: Life

Just spotted the typo - I'll keep it!

Teaser Tuesday - Sep 24

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!

Honor was hoping to surprise the Haymakers with blackberry junket, a sieving of the berries to turn them into a thick paste that concentrated the nutty flavour. She began to suspect, however, that these berries would be better for jelly or cordial.

Another teaser from our book group book of the month - Tracy Chevalier's The Last Runaway - Honor still adjusting to the American way.

Mutterings - Sep 22

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

1. Laceration :: Wound
2. Shower :: Cold
3. Filed :: Drawer
4. Possibility :: Chance
5. Horror :: Story
6. Entry :: Barred
7. Hospital :: Ward
8. Switched :: Over
9. Guilty :: Verdict
10. Mistake :: Apology

Angels with bagpipes!

Angels with bagpipes!, a photo by rajmarshall on Flickr.

I'm still in Edinbugh - at least for a few more days and this weekend got, at last, a chance to look around. This alley is just off the Royal Mile and the photo includes a self-portrait!

Mutterings - Sep 16

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

1. Medication :: Prescription
2. Communication :: TCP/IP
3. Freshest :: Aroma
4. Home remedy :: Cure
5. Notebook :: Spiral-bound
6. Cheerful :: Reasons to be..
7. Nurse :: Night (and I think a carry on lurking there!)
8. Shirt :: Night!
9. Dress :: Wedding (resisting Night again!)
10. Gift :: Wrapping (my mind is obviously working in the same was as the setter!)

a little late this week!

Teaser Tuesday - Sept 10

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!

I feel when I am in it as if the air around me has shifted and it
is not the same air I breathed and moved in back in England, but
is some other substance. Can a building do such a thing?

From Tracy Chevalier's The Last Runaway our BATS (book group) book for the month, an American immigrant from a Quaker community view of the USA of the 1850's. I'm looking forward to this one!

Sunset!

Sunset!, a photo by rajmarshall on Flickr.

Another meal at the Metropole and then a walk down the hill to the hotel to this view!

Mutterings - Sept 8

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

1. Sacred :: Holy (and cow and maybe a scared mistyping!)
2. Distill :: Whisky
3. Haunting :: Ghost
4. Delete :: Key
5. People :: Community
6. Corrupt :: Office
7. Hangar :: Aircraft
8. Gotham :: City
9. Igloo :: Ice
10. Spanish :: Peseta (showing my age!)

Teaser Tuesday - Sept 3

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!

I got the impression that each family recipe was carefully guarded.
Sometimes it is thin and clear and sharp, and sometimes - especially
if made from millet - it is thick and speckled with a grainy texture.

From Joe Simpson's Storms of Silence some interesting thoughts on climbing and masculinity. The recipe is for Nepalese alcohol!

View from the office

I'm currently working in Edinburgh and the office has long views over to the hills and Arthur's Seat. Here's a picture the scaffolding causes a certain amount of vibration - or there are workers on it even in high winds!

Mutterings - Sept 1

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

1. Teacher :: Pupil
2. Activity :: Board
3. Scared :: to death
4. Suction :: Plunger
5. Impossible :: Barrier
6. Terrestrial :: Ground
7. Humongous :: Problem
8. Cheekbones :: Prominent
9. Dream :: Funny (I had a long and involved one last night about starting at a university I couldn't identify!)
10. Fog :: Damp

A lot of words starting with P in the above!