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This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things
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| Day 3398: January 30, 2024 Prompt: Use these words in your blog entry: buckwheat, stockings, effacement, lurker, precipitation, feather, and litter.  This is my first entry for Blogging Circle of Friends and as I look at the prompt I realise I am faced with quite a task. It would be a case of self-effacement to say this is not possible but as I’m I’m always up for a challenge so here goes. I’ll start with litterOne of my most disliked things in the world. Each day my husband and I take our best friend, Lucy the Weimaraner, for her walks and each and every time we pick up food and drink containers. Having a McDonalds across the park from us doesn’t help of course. Why can’t people take their rubbish home or put it in the bin? On the same walks I often find a treasure. A beautiful red and black feather from our native Carnaby Cockatoos. These fantastic birds are endangered because of the way we treat the earth. We chop down their habitat, pollute the rivers and litter our environment. The weather here in Western Australia is forecast to be extra hot this week with temperatures up to 44 degrees centigrade. There’ll be no precipitationand the wearing of stockings will not be encouraged. Oh, look, there’s Lucy being a lurker her head is around my door watching me. She’s probably wondering why she isn’t included in the chocolate biscuits I’m having with my coffee. Although I know she’s not supposed to eat what we eat, but she looks so hungry 😂 This morning she had just a tiny piece of my buckwheat pancakes with a touch of maple syrup. Anyway it’s been nice to join the circle of friends and I hope everyone has a great day. |
| Names "It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame." Henry David Thoreau, Walking Why do you think we are given names at birth? Do you know what your name means and do you live up to it? What about the people you know and their relationships to their names? I was having this discussion earlier today with my granddaughter about baby names. It’s such a responsibility isn’t it? Bestowing a name that child will either love or hate for the rest of its life. I live in Australia and Australians are renowned for shortening names. My granddaughter’s little girl is named Evelyn. She gets called Evie, Eve, Mini, and even her real name, sometimes. There is a new little one on the way. She is going to be named, Ava, because no one can shorten that. What we’re likely to do is lengthen it and call her Avocado! My name, Susan, is boring. I’m usually called Sue unless I’m in trouble. Then it’s Susan. I was nearly a Penny, which I would have hated so it was the best of two evils, I suppose. I’m pleased with the names I called my children and they all like their names. Sarah, Benjamin and Emma. It wasn’t until it was pointed out to me they are all biblical names, I noticed. I’m not religious, but years of bible stories at school must have instilled the names into me. As for second names. None of us have one. Not my husband nor myself and the children. I wish someone could explain the concept of a second Christian name and the purpose. Some even have every relative’s name that ever existed given to them. Surely it’s to appease everyone whose name wasn’t used to call the new child. |
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