• Timorous means to show nervousness or lack of confidence, most famously used in Rabbi Burns’ famous poem, to a mouse – ‘Wee Sleekit, couring, timorous beastie’

    I chose the word because I heard it used in place of temerity, which means something quite different. Have temerity and wait till tommorrow to find exactly what!

    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.

  • I only had a little walk today, into town for some shopping, in the snow, and the church could have made a nice picture, but My battery was discharged! I charged it two nights ago – I think I must have left it on when downloading pictures to the computer.

    Never mind.