Tuesday 14 June 2016
Wednesday 8 June 2016
Dad's Dictionary...
As you may have noticed I haven't been blogging for a looooong time,
but I will try from now on to post a little more often. I like blogging.
It's just finding the time. All my children but one have almost or
completely 'flown the nest' and I now find myself in a totally different
situation. Whereas before everybody had their jobs to do around the
house and garden, now guess who has to do it.
So, in keeping with tradition of a word for Wednesday, I am now going to introduce you all to another of me Dad's favourites:
So, in keeping with tradition of a word for Wednesday, I am now going to introduce you all to another of me Dad's favourites:
ARGY-BARGY
This expression remains all too clear for me even now, probably because I was almost always the one on the receiving end! Dad would give me something to do and would invariably add "now, I don't want no argy-bargy, you hear me?" If that particular something involved my brother or sister then my guess is that he felt he had even more reason for adding it!
Argy-bargy was a late nineteenth-century modification of a Scots phrase, which appeared early in the same century in the form argle-bargle. The second part of the two forms, in fact, is no more than a nonsense rhyming repetition of which the English language is full. The technical word for such doublets is reduplication. Think easy-peasy, hoity-toity, super-duper, etc.
So what does argy-bargy mean. In most webs I've looked at it means 'a lively discussion, argument, dispute, perhaps one which becomes bad tempered enough to produce a spat or minor quarrel'
Shall we call it a day?
This expression remains all too clear for me even now, probably because I was almost always the one on the receiving end! Dad would give me something to do and would invariably add "now, I don't want no argy-bargy, you hear me?" If that particular something involved my brother or sister then my guess is that he felt he had even more reason for adding it!
Argy-bargy was a late nineteenth-century modification of a Scots phrase, which appeared early in the same century in the form argle-bargle. The second part of the two forms, in fact, is no more than a nonsense rhyming repetition of which the English language is full. The technical word for such doublets is reduplication. Think easy-peasy, hoity-toity, super-duper, etc.
So what does argy-bargy mean. In most webs I've looked at it means 'a lively discussion, argument, dispute, perhaps one which becomes bad tempered enough to produce a spat or minor quarrel'
Shall we call it a day?
Monday 6 June 2016
Tuesday 23 February 2016
Monday 22 February 2016
Saturday 6 February 2016
Yums!
Been doing some baking...
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| Banana and peanut butter chocolate chip cookies |
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| Anzacs |
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| Rainy day biscuits* |
*Yes, we do have a legitimate excuse to make them as it rained a little during the night, for the first time in three months. The last time it rained was during the first week in November, last year!
Thursday 4 February 2016
Tuesday 26 January 2016
Blog birthday
Yes, folks, today is the day you have all been anxiously waiting for...
Happy 3rd birthday
to my blog!
To celebrate, as usual, here is a collection of pink/purple things which I have come across over the last year, since the last blog birthday. They are not in any special order.
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| Amazing artichoke flower |
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| Beautiful African violet |
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| Cables in Ikea |
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| A gift from D. and A. |
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| Field of flowers in Romania - photo sent in from D. and A. |
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| Files to help with office organization |
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| Iris in the garden |
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| Petunias in the middle of a roundabout in Tarragona |
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| Table mat - photo sent in from Auntie A. |
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| Waterside flowers |
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| Toryn, wearing the young lady's scarf |
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| Bathroom items |
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| Kitchen items |
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| Ornamental kale |
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| My lovely bedroom - complete with some teddies (and Caroline the hippopotamus) |
Thursday 14 January 2016
Wednesday 13 January 2016
2016
Happy New Year
to all of my fellow bloggers and page viewers
Please forgive me for the small delay in doing a New Year post. For the last four weeks my feet have hardly touched the floor! We've had all the family back home over the holiday period, plus a friend or two staying or just for a meal and we have all had a really lovely time.
We've had temperatures way above usual so we have been out, enjoying the beautiful weather and walking, walking, walking...
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| Coll d'Arca |
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| Juncosa - El Montmell |
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| Albiol and La Serra del Pou |
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| The village of Siurana |
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| Siurana reservoir |
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| Masarbonès |
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