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  Hello deArheart, I’ve got 4 minutes to blog before work. Clinique Happy  has been squirted, face washed, eggs on sourdough eaten, dogs walked, Mary given her antibiotic, coffee made and decanted into my travel cup Three minutes to go Soup in the slow cooker liquidised.....it’s butter bean and chorizo again tonight. One minute to go. Hair brushed, teeth brushed ,  One minute late Back home in 14 hours from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3utB4Um

Yesterday my bubble friend Ruth was over. We ate fish pie ( completed with quarters of hard boiled eggs), drank wine  and watched Amelie  It was a nice evening.  Amelie is a movie that only gets better when rewatching .  It’s film in which it’s editing takes centre stage and where a million visual ideas joint together seamlessly  I adore it. Today I’ve bought eggs from Rachel at the village riding stables and have dodged snow showers in favour of cold sunny breaks, then I’ve picked up antibiotics for Mary ( at last my demand for a swab on her ear has yielded a bacterial and not fungal infection as I suspected ) and bought flowers for Trendy Carol who never takes any payment for looking after the girls when I’m at work.  It’s a no news, bland blogging day today. I will leave you with this excruciatingly funny clip of    Nick Mohammed He sings the plot of a film to its score Enjoy x from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3u...

Not every reader of this post will be familiar with term "etymology". Etymology concerns itself with the origins of words and how and when they came into being. Etymologists track back and explore the history of words, their usage and development. This morning as I was cleansing the crevices of the fleshy Yorkshire Pudding receptacle in the shower, I found myself reconsidering two words that are in fairly common usage - "gosh" and "heck". It seems that "gosh" emerged in the mid-eighteenth century as a semi-polite replacement for "God" when in exclamatory mode. By using "gosh" people were avoiding taking the name of their lord in vain. Better to say, "By gosh I am thirsty!" than "By God I am thirsty!". "Gosh" got little traction at first but its usage increased significantly in the twentieth century  and in this new century its popularity has increased quite noticeably. "Heck" is use...