Recovering...
29 Sep 2013 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatThank you to everyone for the good wishes, virtual hugs, and excellent advice following my shunt in the car on Friday. They have obviously helped as I am not as stiff and sore as predicted at all.
So firstly I am going to do the post I had intended for Friday - just a few pictures to show that we are having a nice autumn so far and so there is still a lot of colour in the garden.
And just to show that I am doing my bit for the future of butterflies....
Even if they are going to only be Cabbage Whites when they grow up - but I have let them live happily on a tub of nasturtiums.
And I have been thinking of hobbits - I always think of hobbits when I am pickling spiced pears for Christmas and winter eating - I have begun to think of them as 'Sam's Spiced Pears'. And I was thinking that to me hobbits live in a version of Tolkien's England - so if they drink cider it is, of course, alcoholic - as apple juice would be called just that, not cider, and if they talk of a field of corn, they mean wheat, not maize, and so on.
And it occurred to me that the mental image of some of my friends must be very different when they think of these things. It was actually brought home to me when Cairistiona had one of the Dunedan women 'shucking' corn - and I puzzled over what she could be doing to it - until I realised it was what you did to what we call sweetcorn. So now I sometimes try to see The Shire, or The Angle, as it must appear to my American friends - and it makes me smile.
I wonder what else we see totally differently in our mind's eye?
So firstly I am going to do the post I had intended for Friday - just a few pictures to show that we are having a nice autumn so far and so there is still a lot of colour in the garden.
And just to show that I am doing my bit for the future of butterflies....
Even if they are going to only be Cabbage Whites when they grow up - but I have let them live happily on a tub of nasturtiums.
And I have been thinking of hobbits - I always think of hobbits when I am pickling spiced pears for Christmas and winter eating - I have begun to think of them as 'Sam's Spiced Pears'. And I was thinking that to me hobbits live in a version of Tolkien's England - so if they drink cider it is, of course, alcoholic - as apple juice would be called just that, not cider, and if they talk of a field of corn, they mean wheat, not maize, and so on.
And it occurred to me that the mental image of some of my friends must be very different when they think of these things. It was actually brought home to me when Cairistiona had one of the Dunedan women 'shucking' corn - and I puzzled over what she could be doing to it - until I realised it was what you did to what we call sweetcorn. So now I sometimes try to see The Shire, or The Angle, as it must appear to my American friends - and it makes me smile.
I wonder what else we see totally differently in our mind's eye?
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Date: 29/09/2013 09:32 pm (UTC)I never knew there was such a thing as non-alcoholic cider! That seems like a contradiction in terms really as I've always considered cider one of the most insidiously lethal alcoholic drinks you can have (I speak from bitter experience *g*).
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Date: 29/09/2013 10:06 pm (UTC)I realised, through LJ, that in America they use the word 'cider' to mean cloudy apple juice. So probably see some of the hobbits' quaffing as being like a children's party rather than them drinking strong alcohol.