Mutterings - Oct 17

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

1. Prove :: Theorem
2. Update :: Security
3. Animal :: Puppet (or even Muppet!)
4. Chocolate :: Cooking
5. Illness :: Serious
6. Upright :: Piano
7. Crucial ::
8. Baked :: Beans
9. Hoops :: Hula
10. Posture :: Seated

Mutterings - Oct 5

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

1. Trails :: Vapour
2. Permanently :: Exclusion
3. Incident :: Close
4. Concur :: Shake (on it!)
5. Shocked :: Expression
6. Money :: Income
7. Horse :: Mouth
8. Church :: People
9. British :: Identity (whatever that is!)
10. Scandal :: Profumo

Mutterings - Sept 15

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

1. NPR :: Wot?! (googles...)
2. Lampshade :: Lady Lazarus (and very dark!)
3. Beep :: -o-matic (google suggests this is via Fireman Sam but I think it was Nick Park)
4. Fingernail :: Blackboard
5. Simple :: Minds
6. Tight :: Fisted
7. Swoosh :: Missing (the point)
8. Booger :: Eugh!
9. Fox :: Michael (friend and was vicar and BBC producer around here)
10. Kindness :: Stop (giving time)

Mutterings - 28th Aug

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

1. Travel:: Itinerary
2. Unravel :: Ravel
3. Yell :: Frustrate
4. Peaceful :: Landscape
5. Catastrophe :: Afghanistan
6. Position :: Carefully
7. Cat :: Scan
8. Health ::
9. Shark :: Fin
10. Mountain :: Scenery (missing this!)

Mutterings - Aug 22

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

1. Fast :: Lent
2. Ridiculous :: Expression
3. Germs :: Wash (and the story of the last year)
4. Computer :: Technology
5. Business :: School
6. Old :: Wine (maybe glancing at the next line!)
7. Whine :: Cat feeding time!
8. Personal :: Story
9. Whisper :: Gallery (British museum)
10. Slow :: Festina (going back to the first word!)

Mutterings - Aug 10

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

1. Misrepresent :: Malicious
2. Conditioning :: Air
3. Blister :: Pack
4. Dump :: Stig
5. Boing :: Zebedee!
6. Hill :: (to ) Die (on)
7. Consolidate :: Merge
8. Tame :: Lion
9. Power :: Electrical
10. Sneeze :: Allergy

This blog has been quiet, lots of unmentioned news...let's see!

Mutterings - May 16

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

1. Tweet :: Mob
2. Chill :: Breathe (deeply)
3. Toe :: Hold
4. Early :: Riser
5. Plenty :: Drink
6. Repeat :: Mark
7. Blank :: Mind
8. Quarter :: Note
9. Synapse :: Connection
10. Earlobe :: Pierce

Mutterings - Apr 17

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

1. Casino :: Royale
2. Bone :: Dry
3. Painting :: Contemplate
4. Market :: Prices
5. Shocked :: van de Graaf
6. Curbed :: Dog (training)
7. High :: Noon (I must be on a film kick)
8. Quiter :: Patch
9. Playroom :: Aughton (my aunt used to be on the staff at a children's residential nursery there back in the 50s)
10. Feed :: Twitter

Mutterings - Apr 10

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

1. Song :: Funeral a moderately recent first performance of an early work of Stravinsky (who died 50 years ago this week.
2. Glass :: Philip (I've started on Music!)
3. Boat :: Skye (Song!)
4. Junk :: -et
5. Sheet :: (three) to the wind
6. Knit :: Purl
7. Gift :: Horse
8. Truck :: No (with such and such)
9. Small :: Bug (but they never are!)
10. Title :: Noble (titled aristocracy)

Mutterings - Apr 3

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

1. Bingo :: King of the Mornings (Brazilian film about the melt down of a TV personality)
2. Sound :: Depth
3. Correspond :: 1-1
4. Moving :: Emoting
5. Inch :: Shuffle (towards)
6. Clog :: Wooden (I have some for the feet when piano playing)
7. Video :: Nasty
8. Bark :: Bite
9. Cloud :: Memory (going fuzzy)
10. Pig :: Napoleon (Orwell's Animal farm)

Mutterings - March 27

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

1. Frog :: Spawn
2. Milk :: Yogurt
3. Waist :: High
4. Thrift :: Shop
5. Brick :: Yellow (Road)
6. Kneel :: Homage
7. Rotate :: Axes
8. Jumpy :: Lambs
9. Style :: Rococo
10. Bruise :: Ugly

Mutterings - March 21

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

1. Horse :: Saddle
2. Green :: Fauré - one of his settings of Verlaine
3. Stomach :: Strong
4. River :: Wharfe
5. Flirting :: Side-eye
6. Red :: Shift - astronomical and the Alan Garner book
7. Eating :: ones words
8. Thyme :: Basket
9. Eyeglasses :: Monocle
10. Speak :: Silence

Mutterings - March 13

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

1. Keen :: Commander!
2. Charger :: Arab
3. Wearable :: Wristband
4. Owl :: Tawny
5. Head :: Salome (and John the Baptist!)
6. Cow :: Frighten
7. Records :: 78s
8. Countdown :: Final
9. Base :: First
10. Kid :: Deceive

Mutterings - March 6

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

1. Clap :: Carers
2. Vision :: Perfect
3. Prone :: Fall
4. Congratulate :: Certificate
5. Lean :: Hungry
6. Thrill :: Chase
7. Chrome :: Browser
8. Host :: 127.0.0.1
9. Learn :: Look and (magazine from the 60s - or was it the 50s?)
10. Smell :: Rich

Mutterings - 20 Feb

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

1. Row :: Column
2. Happy :: Grumpy
3. Storm :: Welcome (to my life, at present!)
4. Clink :: Restaurant (the local women's prison at Styal runs a restaurant called the Clink, sometime we're hoping to go)
5. Mindful :: Calm
6. Massage :: Flesh
7. Water :: Reflection
8. Bingo :: Shout
9. Stomped :: Snow
10. Farm :: Barn

Mutterings - Feb 17

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

1. Mime :: Siegfried (must be that BBC Radio 3 is doing Wagner's Ring this week - though I have problems with that Opera!
2. Jinx :: High
3. Animal :: Run
4. Woman :: Gender
5. Correspondence :: Matching
6. Eggs :: Pancake (this is what happens when I do this late)
7. Tax :: Code (tries to find mine on gov.uk!)
8. Lima :: Ponte (Portugal rather than South America - we went there in 2019)
9. Squander :: Waste
10. Expert :: Driver

Mutterings - Feb 3

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

1. Recording :: Sound
2. Tumble :: Drier
3. Fixate :: Obsess
4. Border :: First (He's at the border first.. he turns and.. the end of Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale)
5. Humming :: Bird
6. Scratch :: Orchestra (see Cornelius Cardew)
7. Exhausted :: Mine (as in excavation)
8. Gurgle :: Pipes
9. Nostalgia :: Musical
10. Squeak :: Bubble

Mutterings - Jan 28th

This week's (well last week's!) free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Wanting :: Waiting (maybe the old Access card ad - "taking the waiting out of wanting", maybe yearning of separation)
2. System :: 4 (ICL...)
3. Home :: Screen
4. Excessive :: Alcohol
5. Handy :: Andy (I think the cleaner rather than any TV person!)
6. Traditional :: Carols (listened to some earlier)
7. Buying :: Scheme
8. Tone :: Lean (tanned..)
9. Modern :: Technology
10. Needing :: Loving

Mutterings - Jan 24

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

1. Finale :: Season
2. Old man :: [of] Hoy
3. Sticking :: Plaster
4. Hardship :: Fund
5. Change :: Better
6. Suppose :: Assumption
7. Jacket :: Bomber
8. Volatile :: Cocktail
9. Five :: Fingers
10. Pajamas :: Trousers

Mutterings - Jan 11

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

1. Crass :: Trump
2. Raging :: Trump (is this a competition ;) )
3. Delivery :: Turpin (highwayman - nearly!)
4. Cash :: Outmoded
5. Streaming :: Music
6. Trip :: at home
7. Business :: Call
8. Tiger :: Jungle book
9. Sneeze :: 7 dwarves - more Disney!
10. Bribery :: Trump (again!)