Soon it will be time for the Oxford English Dictionary to choose its word or phrase of the year and I’ve been wondering which one they’ll select for 2020. This alarming and baffling year has not only seen the creation of lots of new words, but also old words being used in new ways. Upcycled,…
Month: September 2020
Permanently on the back burner
There are many things I imagine I’d like to do and might perhaps do some day, but just not yet. I’m waiting until the time is right. I’m not talking about those pesky jobs that feature on a to-do list, but about full-blown projects requiring a significant commitment of time, energy and imagination. I’m wondering…
September – free food for the taking
April might be the cruellest month, according to T S Eliot, but I would nominate September as the most demanding. All that mellow fruitfulness is wearing me out. It’s a joy to see the trees laden with fruit and the hedgerows bursting with blackberries and sloes, but I know that it will translate into hours…
Extreme dining
Yesterday I had lunch in an igloo. That’s not a sentence I ever thought I’d write. I dislike extreme cold intensely, probably because I grew up in Ottawa, Canada’s frozen capital. I wish they’d had an alternative, tropical capital I could have moved to, but they didn’t seem to have one on offer. Ottawa winters…