It was a reasonable day at work. We didn’t have many parcels to do and the ones we had were easy to pack and went to simple addresses.
We had several customers and a sprinkling of phone calls plus a couple of late orders.
You couldn’t really ask for more.
Until early afternoon. I’d just spent half an hour loading details and photographs onto eBay when I pressed the wrong button and, as you’ve probably already guessed, wiped it all.
So I had to plod through it all again. It’s not a good feeling doing it twice. Unfortunately, and I really hate to admit this, my last act on Monday afternoon had been to wipe it off too. In other words, I ended up doing it three times.
There must be a way to stop losing my work like this, but I still can’t work out how to do it. I’m adding new pieces to old listings so it isn’t as straightforward as starting from scratch.
I don’t feel bad about making mistakes, but I do feel bad about making the same one several times.
Things became more light-hearted when I started answering comments. I noted, whilst doing this, that I had made a couple of typos when adding tags. Writing THree Little Birds isn’t particularly amusing, but mis-spelling foraging as faraging did bring a smile to my face.
Foraging is, as you know, collecting wild plants for food. Faraging, possibly derived from the name Farage, is a word just begging for a meaning. It has several if you check it up but they are all made up by people like me. Well, like me but without the sparkling wit…
Faraging should, I think, be a word that indicates the ability to build a career on a single issue and a dash of personality, but free of the taint of actual ability, a bit like a modern reality TV star, and I think we all know my view of them.
There is a Seventeenth Century quote which I used to use in my re-enactment days – “Loud voices and empty words. So quoth the popinjay.”
It could do with some rewriting, but I think it conveys the general idea.
I’m going to start using it in that context and see if it catches on.
If it does, and I become rich and famous as a result, it will be a prime example of faraging, and I will become a noted farager.
There are many examples of names being used this way – Boycott, Quisling and Adonis are other examples. These are known as eponyms, which I should have known really, as I have seen the word eponymous often enough. It’s strange how some things pass you by.
Streptocarpus grown from leaf cuttings
The photos are two of the four streptocarpus plants Julia has grown from leaf cuttings. She did it a few years ago to prove she could. As you can see, she succeeded.
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I love this post! Excellent rejoinders! The original Boycott lived and died near us in Flixton.
https://www.visitbungay.co.uk/attractions/st-mary-church-flixton/
I never thought of him living in England – he’s always Irish in my mind. Sounds like an interesting church.
It is an interesting one. The sculpture of Lady Adair, mentioned in the link, was done using a set of photographs and is therefore a mirror-image of her. Her jacket looks as though it’s buttoned up on the wrong side (the male way; buttons on the right and button-holes on the left).
I wonder if I would even notice a point like that. The artist clearly didn’t.
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Well done Julia. I had to “google” what they are-kind of like African violets, but seem a lot lighter. Your photography is getting even better!
Thank you – I am going to have to practice more. They are one of the vast array of South African flowers which I can never quite get to grips with.
Streptocarpus from leaf cuttings! Now I will have to try that.
We got a few leaves from garden centres and ended up with free plants. Morally reprehensible, I confess, but very satisfying.
Did Julia need rooting compound, or was she able to stick the leaves in dirt and have them root on their own?
She didn’t use rooting compound, but does describe the process as “hit and miss”.
Excellent musing on names – I see a potential series here
Like “knighting”? – Pootling round getting under your wife’s feet and hoping she forgives you in time for the evening meal.
Pretty accurate. Now lets see Boycott 🙂
Let’s see. “Boycott”, a sporting term relating to the ability to give a boring interview about a boring approach to a game of great beauty and subtlety, thereby setting many batting records and becoming universally disliked.
Hm, I may need to make that snappier…
Botham may assist.
Tricky – Botham is so many things to so many people. A brearley (second non-sporting career), gooching (looking like a notably lugubrious undertaker) and gatting (like batting but using your face) may be easier to promote as new words.
Off you go then
Successful is right. What beauties! Always so irritating to keep making the same mistake.
🙂 Yes, though irritating is putting it mildly.
I like the idea of faraging. I see it as meaning ‘doing reckless things for which you don’t have to bear the consequences’, much like fly tipping and voting conservative.
It is a good definition. That would bring in the Rees-Moggs, who are definitely faraging in my mind.
Quite right.