Mutterings - March 29

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

1. Twins :: Conjoined
2. Seven :: Perfect
3. Canceled :: Meeting
4. Video :: Game
5. Mistress :: Affair
6. Puppy :: Love
7. Sadness :: Grief
8. Cleanse :: Pores
9. Impostor :: Hypocrite
10. Fruitless :: Campaign

On the Canal

Last week was beginning to feel Spring like so we decided a lunch at the Vale Inn Bollington surrounded by a walk would be good. We walked there along the Middlewood way and back via the canal - part of the tow path is closed in Bollington so a diversion through an estate was necessary but on getting back to the canal we saw this: We were convinced, initially, that a barge owner had a very ornate bow decoration but then it moved, caught a fish and ate it in a nearby field.
I've just received the church walk schedule for the summer, I'm leading a walk ending up at the Vale so I think I'll need another reconnoitre!

Teaser Tuesday - March 25

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!

And why would you want to be goin' on a diet, Jamie? Sure there's nothing much wrong with the way you are.

From Christina McKenna's The Misremembered Man. Alternating humour and dark tragedy, it's our book group book of the month. Here's a review

Mutterings - March 22

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

1. Ringtone :: Obstrusive
2. Slab :: Marble
3. Harness :: Die in
4. Couple :: Sex
5. Shovel :: Snow
6. Game :: Park
7. Patriotic :: Salute
8. Bleed :: Colour
9. Top :: Monitor
10. Leafy :: Glade

Mutterings - March 16

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

1. Hunt :: Royal (...of the Sun)
2. Spinal :: Tap
3. Groom :: Bride
4. Red light :: District
5. Delayed :: Train
6. Forgetfulness :: Pardon?
7. Tennis :: Elbow
8. Best of luck :: Wish
9. Badge :: of Honour
10. Autograph :: Book

Mutterings - March 8

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

1. Neutral :: Gear
2. Renovation :: Repair
3. Metallic :: Clang
4. Filling :: Tooth
5. Designate :: Bishop
6. Bee sting :: Vinegar
7. Neighbors :: Fences (probably via make good neighbors)
8. Bracket :: Hinge (though I'm thinking of Brackett!)
9. Call me :: Back
10. Pretty :: Young

Teaser Tuesday - Mar 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!

The arm that had been around Sukey's waist flexed above my head.
'Poke him in the eyes.'

from Emma Healey's Elizabeth is Missing a study of old age and it's indignities and frailties. Our BATS book of the month, it's the meeting tonight and I haven't yet finished it - according to the download from Sainsbury's ereader, I have 346 pages to go - I rather doubt this! I've no idea what's wrong with the page numbering. But I think I intend to finish...

Rather too long since I did one of these.

That's a rather unfair teaser - the final sentence is a punchline!

Mutterings - March 1

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

1. Jude :: Obscure
2. Erased :: Rubbed out
3. Addiction :: Internet
4. Curls :: Electric
5. Hotel :: du Lac (Anita Brookner)
6. Bloomers :: Underwear
7. Membership :: Society
8. Family :: Kith
9. Handle :: Struct - Pimpl
10. Questioning :: Truth