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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

Signature for those who are nominated for a Quill Award in 2021

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Beholden

Nov 12, 2024 at 5:53pm
In response to "Plough Discs"

I knew there were bound to be exceptions - but now you've done the work for me!

Ned

Nov 12, 2024 at 5:46pm
In response to "Plough Discs"

I can think of one instance that doesn't exactly use -ough to sound as -ow but rather replaces -ough with - ow and I have always assumed changed the pronunciation as well. And that would be in The Rubyiat of Omar Khayam in possibly the most-quoted lines "a loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou beside me singing in the wilderness. Oh that wilderness were paradise enow!" Pardon any typos or paraphrasing as I am on my phone and hopeless with teeny tiny keyboard as.

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Nov 10, 2024 at 6:49pm
In response to "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whatsaname"

I cannot find the word sometimes... very frustrating. That seems to be what you're experiencing.

However, if I need to say it in French (more so than my other languages) then it's better for me just say it and translate. More like what Andrea faces.

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Cubby

Oct 29, 2024 at 3:04pm
In response to "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whatsaname"

For me and Hubs, I know it's part of getting older. We have to make light of it and often laugh at ourselves, which is healthy!

If it was a medical thing, like a stroke, that would be different.

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ദƖυҽყҽʐ 🤍

Oct 29, 2024 at 2:26pm
In response to "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whatsaname"

"I can know exactly what I want to write and then, seconds later, when I come to the point of typing the most important word, I find it’s gone. It matters not that I knew the word mere moments ago, somehow it has departed my brain and refuses to return."

Thank you ... I don't feel so bad knowing I'm not alone in this. These days it seems to take forever to write something.

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Beholden

Oct 29, 2024 at 1:27pm
In response to "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whatsaname"

True. It increases with age, that's for sure.

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Amethyst Angel 🍁🙏

Oct 29, 2024 at 1:11pm
In response to "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whatsaname"

It can be a medical thing, really, and we shouldn't make light of it around here. There are many different language impediments that come after strokes or with dementia.

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Beholden

Oct 20, 2024 at 8:11pm
In response to "On Tininess"

Yup.But it really comes home at times.

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Amethyst Angel 🍁🙏

Oct 20, 2024 at 8:09pm
In response to "On Tininess"

And you know what? You were once a billion times smaller than that little speck. We all began as a single cell in our mother's womb. Pretty awe-inspiring, huh?

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Dave Ryan

Oct 12, 2024 at 10:37am
In response to "The Roman Version of YouTube"

veni vidi vote

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#381. Seeing is Believing
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#380. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whatsaname
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#379. On Tininess
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#378. The Truth
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#377. Ouch
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#376. The Roman Version of YouTube
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#356. Few Encounters
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#352. I Do Like a Bit of Obscurity
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#351. Farewell Bob
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#350. Contemplating Infinity
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#348. The Vagaries of Memory
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#343. Messages in the Night
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#331. A Cheerful Thought
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#330. Andrea Again!
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#329. After the Game is Over
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#328. Cheese
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#324. Music to My Ears
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#321. Review, Anyone?
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#319. Pardon my Ennui
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#318. The Game of Thrones Thing
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#317. Nod to the Blog
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#316. Help!
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#315. Breaking the Rules
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#314. A New Mondegreen
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#313. On Beholding
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#312. Epiphanee, Epiphanah
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#311. cNotes and Things
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#310. Today!
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#309. Oops 3
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#308. Enough, Already
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#290. Computer? Computer!
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#289. A Shattered Image
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#284. Flibbertigibbet
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#283. Résumé
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