Carol's blog
- Word(s) of the day: “scréachóg reilige” - ‘screecher of the cemetery’; Irish name for the barn owl. Also “cailleach-oidhche ghea - February 8., 2018
- Word(s) of the day: "zawn" - wave-smashed cleft or chasm in a sea-cliff (from Cornish sâwn/sawan) - March 2., 2017
- Word(s) of the day: "rionnach maoim"...'the moving shadows cast by clouds on moorland on a sunny, windy day'. Such compressed el - March 6., 2018
- Word(s) from other languages... - October 3., 2019
- Word of the day: “Eisvogel” - German for kingfisher, literally “ice-bird”; in Russian Зимородок, lit. “winter-born” - December 4., 2017
- Word of the day: "lands" - when mountains appear as silouhettes - October 27., 2017
- Word of the day: "clinkerbell" - icicle (Somerset; archaic). Other regional names for icicles include "aquabob" (Kent), "ickle" - December 15., 2017
- Word of the day: "chime" - collective noun for wrens; the wren is also known as "druid" (Welsh), "little king" (Dutch) & "jenny" - September 28., 2017
- Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ - October 9., 2020
- Word of the day is 'podsnappery' (19th century, from Dickens): 'insular complacency and blinkered self-satisfaction' - November 2., 2020
- Winnol Weather.... - March 4., 2018
- Who gets to say what counts as a country? — Charles Crawford — Aeon - September 6., 2013
- When I wander | Dementia: The Journey Ahead - October 20., 2016
- What do 'others' think - and who are 'others'? - February 16., 2010
- What an absolutely wonderful skewering of Chris Grayling's 'heroism' bill by Lord Pannick... - November 5., 2014
- War memorials or Peace memorials - May 28., 2013
- Unemployment Benefit / Job Seekers Allowance 1948-2012 - September 29., 2015
- Trip to St Ives.... - June 29., 2011
- Tremayne Woods - May 12., 2011
- Transformation of the Allotment begins.... - March 10., 2011