• I overheard this word on the telly. I didn’t know what the programme was about, but I liked the sound of the word, so I looked it up.

    Pullulate means to breed or spread so much that one becomes extremely common! This sounds appalling, but I don’t think it means that you go down the social scale every time you have an extra child – more that any population that is on the increase, as in the grey area on the mean distribution graph shown, is pullulating. Once the population is in decline I guess there is another word?

    It comes from the latin word that means sprout. I’m sure there is a joke in there somewhere.

    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.

  • The storm clouds are gathering, the ground is frozen solid, My Daughter has left college early, fleeing the snow that is falling already in Hereford and that has started falling here. And through it all, the Japanese Rose, Kerria, outside my studio window has decided to flower!

    Just one flower in a cold, frozen, barren garden. A little hope that spring can’t be that far away!

  • Hooray! My website is up and running again. It is amazing how much a website becomes part of one’s Psyhche, almost an extension of oneself. When it is down, I feel a little part of me is not working. Sad, but this is what we have come to in the twenty first century.