When I wander | Dementia: The Journey Ahead |
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When management isn't far away... |
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Whited Sepulchres: A Mediaeval Mystery |
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Who gets to say what counts as a country? — Charles Crawford — Aeon |
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Winnol Weather.... |
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Word of the day is 'podsnappery' (19th century, from Dickens): 'insular complacency and blinkered self-satisfaction' |
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ |
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Word of the day: "chime" - collective noun for wrens; the wren is also known as "druid" (Welsh), "little king" (Dutch) & "jenny" |
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Word of the day: "clinkerbell" - icicle (Somerset; archaic). Other regional names for icicles include "aquabob" (Kent), "ickle" |
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Word of the day: "lands" - when mountains appear as silouhettes |
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Word of the day: “Eisvogel” - German for kingfisher, literally “ice-bird”; in Russian Зимородок, lit. “winter-born” |
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Word(s) from other languages... |
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Word(s) of the day: "rionnach maoim"...'the moving shadows cast by clouds on moorland on a sunny, windy day'. Such compressed el |
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Word(s) of the day: "zawn" - wave-smashed cleft or chasm in a sea-cliff (from Cornish sâwn/sawan) |
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Word(s) of the day: “scréachóg reilige” - ‘screecher of the cemetery’; Irish name for the barn owl. Also “cailleach-oidhche ghea |
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You can be beautiful and a little cracked |
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You Chill Holidays - Tre-View Cornwall |
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Zero-gravity hedgehogs |
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