Friday, 22 January 2010

Find a penny, pick it up...

Sometimes words are like lost pennies. You see one, look around, pick it up and put it in your pocket. I say look around because I can remember a lot of places where I learned words. (Impasse--The Princess Bride, scene with Wesley and Vicini. Eschew--English course with Dr. Grissom).


Sometimes, I see the penny, but don't pick it up. I am overwhelmed with place names here. Warrington, Wokingham, Watlington all within 20 miles of here. Without context the words float in, flutter around my brain a bit, and float back out. For a while, people's names were the same, there was only so much my brain could make sense of while learning to make my way in a foreign country.


I'm determined now to pick the pennies up. So here goes,... Chatelaine--the female owner, or wife of the owner, of a castle or large country house (used to describe Nancy Astor in a National Trust blurb about Cliveden her house about 7 miles from here). Poncy--an offensive word used to describe something effeminate or over-styled (had no idea this could be offensive--think I need a slang dictionary to hand at all times, for words like slag...)


Monday, 18 January 2010

I dub thee....


Tonight, I asked my five year old if we could change her name. "Chloe, from now on your middle name is no longer Elizabeth. I think we should formally change your name to 'Dammit' since I seem to call you that far more often." Sadly, she doesn't realize 1)It would take far too much paperwork to be worth it. 2)Dammit is a curse word. "NOOOO! Mommy, I want to be Chloe Elizabeth." "Well, OK. We won't have time to change it on your passport before Easter."

Inane, mundane or possibly insane


Well, so here goes. My preeminent blogging friend has suggested I do this a number of times and while I really have wanted to, I was always a bit daunted. But why be? No one may ever read this, right?
So here it is, Easy Peasy, (also a name she suggested) a place to purge it all the inane and mundane in hopes that it keeps me from going insane.
Funny enough in trying to come up with a name, I kept coming up with album titles..."Everybody else is doing it, so why can't we..."--The Cranberries kept popping up. So here is my contribution to the blogging world. "Let's get it started."