I was doing my daily crossword this morning and was delighted to find that ‘fluster’ and ‘restful’ are very closely related.
The clue was: ‘It would be relaxing to recover from a fluster.’
I am definitely putting this in my stress busting drawer.
The Random House Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1996) was a constant companion of Dad’s and it now lives on my desk beside the computer.
This quote got me chuckling this morning and seeing hyphens and flowers through different eyes:
All flowers are flirtatious – particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower. The one-hyphen flowers – black-eyed Susan; lady smock; musk-rose – may give you only a shy glance and then drop their eyes; the two-hyphen flowers – forget-me-not; flower-de-luce – keep glancing. Flowers with three or more hyphens flirt all over the garden and continue even when they are cut and arranged in vases. John-go-to-bed-at-noon does not go their simply to sleep. (Williard R. Espy)
I went off on a search of flowers’ names and immediately hit on a likely partner for John—–
Who else but Amaryllis Belladonna, otherwise known as Naked Lady! Here she is in all her glory:
Not too long after noon here in Ireland so I’d best let them have their siesta while I go and do some Christmas-cleaning-hoovering-dusting-washing-ironing-relaxing –
What-are-you-up-to-now?
