Philippa is out for ‘quiet drinks’ with some friends in Norfolk, so I have just enjoyed a great three-hour session on the drums. Now I am blogging while waiting for some pasta to cook before a late bolognaise supper, during which I shall watch something suitably action-packed courtesy of Netflix.
Still 9 minutes to go on that spaghetti….
Been a week of quite short messages from me. Maybe part of me thinks that dropping 750 words in one day (see Nov 7th) means I’m allowed to be a bit lax with the word count for a while. I don’t know. My mind is a complicated thing and I can’t pretend to know why it thinks the things it does. I would like to point out though that oftentimes the blogs that are shorter are the ones that I spend more time writing. However… having said that, I need to get back to writing longer blog postings, so I’ve thought of a new challenge to work on. I want to write a blog post that only uses words that can be made using the symbols from the Periodic Table of The Elements. For example - the word “NEWSPAPERS” uses Neon (Ne), Tungsten (W), Sulphur (S), Protactinium (Pa), Phosphorous (P), Erbium (Er) and then Sulphur again to make it plural (a bit cheaty, I know, but needs must, etc..) The longest one I’ve found so far is CAMOUFLAGES, which uses EIGHT different elements and is ELEVEN letters long.
Not sure how I’ll get those into a coherent blog post, but I can give it a go.
RC 17-11-17
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