alun

@alun@toot.wales

Dysgwr Cymraeg, former archaeologist, #botany #botaneg #wildlife #bywydgwyllt

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18+ alun, to random

Home after having an operation for kidney cancer. Overall, not an experience I'd recommend. Next year I'm going to Butlins for my holiday instead.

alun,

@nic diolch

snaptophobic, to WordoftheDay
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Morning world. Enough relaxing. I have stuff to do!

Yesterday's was WREATHE, to encircle; also to twist flowers into a wreath.

Today's word: BEFUDDLE.

alun,

@snaptophobic

To confuse an insect of the genus Bombus.

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Morning world. Thursday? I think. 🤔 I’m still not here. I will be later. Possibly.

Yesterday's was COXCOMB. Some of you were correct to point out it’s a name for the bright wattle seen on chickens. However, in this case, it means a conceited or showy person.

Today's word: PARASELENE.

alun,

@snaptophobic
Not come across this word before. I'd guess from the construction it's the universe beyond the moon.

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Morning world. Feeling almost human. Almost.

Yesterday's was EBULLIENT, meaning to be exuberant.

Today's word: DISCERN.

alun,

@snaptophobic

To identify and then remove an item from a Franco-Swiss scientific facility.

snaptophobic, to WordoftheDay
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Morning world. The promise of a storm today. We shall see.

Yesterday's was MATTOCK, a tool like a pickaxe with adze and chisel edges as ends of the head.

Today's word: DEPILATE.

alun,

@snaptophobic
Use a razor to remove a Roman governor from office.

alun, to random

Just had a terrible shock from the NHS app, browsing test results.

I'd always thought I was either 5'11" or six foot. My latest test says 178 cm, which I've discovered is 5'10".

I should have been alerted that something was wrong when the CT scan finished earlier than I expected.

I'll be seeking out a long course of counselling to help me come to terms with this. Or else wear bulkier shoes for my next visit to the surgery.

alun, to random

I've been finding that Argos tends to be around the same price as Amazon for many things, and there's a fractionally higher chance of them paying tax on the profit, and you can often pick up straight away.

But also I've just realised, with their move to get you to use delivery lockers, Amazon are trying to be a less slick Argos.

No use if you've not got an Argos or Sainsbury's in town but, for the people who do, it's well worth checking as an alternative.

snaptophobic, to WordoftheDay
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Morning world. We might go out again today.

Yesterday's was HETERODOX, which is defined by my dictionary as simply not orthodox. 🤔

Today's word: BLAZON.

alun,

@snaptophobic

To wear a dapper jacket, such as one bearing the family crest over the breast pocket.

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Morning world. The weekend looms ahead once more.

Yesterday's was PTOMAINE, any of a group of amines formed by decaying organic matter.

Today's word: MUSTH

alun,

@snaptophobic
Aaargh! I missed yesterday's which I would have had no clue about.

Today's guess is: To compel Igor to do something. e.g. "Igor you musth do something about the deer fighting outside the castle. It's dissuading innocent visitors from coming here when their car breaks down.

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Morning world. Some stuff happened. More today.

Yesterday's was WHENCE, from what place, cause or origin.

Today's word: GRANIVOROUS

alun,

@snaptophobic

Person who eats elderly relatives.

On a slightly more serious note, the bulk of human calories come from seeds and grains, so you could describe humans as largely granivorous.

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Morning world. Fretting. It’s the simple stuff.

Yesterday's was LEGATEE, which is a person to who a legacy is bequeathed. I prefer some of your guesses, if I’m honest!

Today's word: WHENCE

alun,

@snaptophobic To wince at an embarrassing memory from the past.

snaptophobic, to WordoftheDay
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Morning world. Didn’t sleep well. Wake me later.

Yesterday's was TOTTER, to move in an unsteady manner. It’s also a slang word for someone that picks up scrap materials for recycling.

Today's word: LEGATEE

alun,

@snaptophobic
A person who inherits a large sum of money on the condition that they live as an aquatic mammal.

alun, to random

"French readers are reassured that they have nothing to fear from the Welsh, who are generally portrayed as an innocuous people."

  • A “Devolved Minority”: Contemporary German and French Guidebook Perspectives of Wales by Anna-Lou Dijkstra

https://modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.203

snaptophobic, to random
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Another Flickr link test. Not sure how Masto will handle this one.

Anyway, a photographic partial explanation of why I keep banging on about the military aviation of 1940. I find it an endlessly fascinating subject, a year of the Second World War that’s often thought of only in terms of Blitzkrieg and the Battle of Britain but is so much more complicated than that.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/snaptophobic/collections/72157720346227995/

alun,

@snaptophobic Are you following @Airminded ? He's more Great War based, but you may find his work interesting.

nic, to random
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Imagine if a sign with Welsh Govt and NHS logos on it had misspelled the word HOSPITAL.

Yeah, it’s all right, it’s

alun,

@nic @hywelm Also I've heard casual conversations in Knighton in Welsh. It's not just that people 'can' speak Welsh. It is used as a first language for some people in Radnorshire.

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Been reading scientific research papers, and you know what? I genuinely do love it

Maybe I'm sentimental, but I'd say there's something brilliant about people regularly encountering the very limits of human knowledge and understanding, and always saying "Absolutely not!"

alun,

@Garwboy

My favourite are the papers where the experiment is so simple anyone could do it if they thought of it. The idea there's a paper anyone could have written, but only THEY did, highlights the importance of thinking clearly.

I'm envious of an author who can write a paper like that.

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