It’s slightly warmer today and the quality of the snow is changing, softer and a bit slushier. You can here it in the video of me walking above.
I walked up to the woods, the sky was dark, it looked like a mist was trying to form and there was no one about. They’ve all gone back to work and school today.
I walked around what would probably be called scowles around here, but I’m not sure they really are, more slag dumps from quarrying. The forest has an ancient heritage of mining and quarrying which has helped to shape the landscape. The trees and moss and snow soften them making the paths in between really quite romantic.
Scowles are a Forest oddity, best seen at the wonderful Puzzle Wood. I’ll have to go and have a walk around there one day.
A PRIORI – Word Of The Day – build your word power
A Priory describes reasoning or knowledge that has been deduced rather discovered by experimentation.
A very awkward phrase, rather than word to use. Let me try:
It can be assumed a priori, that a Prior lives in a Priory.
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The dictionaries will tell you that this word describes a drink made from milk warmed and curdled with alcohol as medicinal remedy, but any parent will tell you that posset is the hlaf digested milk that babies regurgitate if you shake them too much – a bit like cola bottles.
Posset usually ends up trickling down your neck.
Learn a new word every day.
Repeat it and remind yourself what it means at least three times in a day.
Try to use the word in conversation or writing today.
Get a dictionary and look words up.