Monday, 18 November 2024
Words for weather
The weather report is threatening us with icy Arctic weather and I looked out of the bedroom window this morning to see what the day promised.
It was mizzling, one of the many descriptive words used in the English language to describe weather. 'Mizzling' is a Yorkshire term for a fine mist of rain, finer than drizzle. It sounds like a mixture of mist and drizzle. The day was 'soft', still, quiet, no wind and not especially cold. Not a particularily good day to be gardening.
Leaves continue to fall
and the compost heap is already rather full.
I had a bit of a wander about outside because, although it was damp, it was really rather beautiful.
Every day a blackbird comes to eat the beauty bush berries. He looks very fine with his black feathers and orange beek amongst the purple berries. I've tried to get a photo of him but he obviously has one bright eye fixed on me because whenever I lift my arms to snap him off he flies.
I cleared the leaves from the front drive before conceding defeat, putting on a dry jacket and going to do the weekly shop.
(And the kitchen, HURRAH, is once more, and more brightly so, mine, all mine!
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I love the word misseling, it describes the Yorkshire weather perfectly !
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures of your Autumn garden.
~Jo
My mis-spelling, Jo, see below!
DeleteIt's mizzly here, too, which makes it feel colder than it really is.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you've got your kitchen back - it never feels right when the kitchen's out of order.
Ah, Jabblog, you and Lorrie can both spell, and no doubt pronounce words correctly and I cannot! I shall remove the 'e' from my mizzling.
DeleteI like that word, so descriptive. A cross between drizzling and miserable too, perhaps!
ReplyDeleteWe are still having fine weather, but later in the week sounds like winter might be trying to make a play. Cold, rain, strong winds, sweet and maybe snow. Good indoors weather.
Yes, it's a good word. I'm tucked up indoors today!
DeleteLovely colour in your garden and wonderful light now in your kitchen. I like what I can see of the fire in the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteWe have a wood burner in the dining area of the kitchen, very welcome in the chilly months (of which there are far too many!)
DeleteBeauty berries are so striking. It's been mizzling here this afternoon, a very descriptive word for the rain we got. Your garden still has lots of colour.
ReplyDeleteMy spelling - see the reply to Jabblog! There is now as much leaf colour on the ground as on the trees. The streets around us are looking beautiful.
DeleteYay about the kitchen!!
ReplyDeleteThe beauty berries deserve their name, don't they. I am glad that they actually get eaten by birds. Whenever I am out walking this time of year and see the abundance of all sorts of berries on bushes and trees, I wonder whether they are helpful for wildlife to feast on before winter sets in.
Oh indeed, yay to the kitchen, I am so pleased with it.
DeleteMuzzle is a delightful word. Not delightful weather.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your lovely bright kitchen
There is such a difference between artificial light and daylight, I am so happy with the result.
Deletemizzling sounds like what they call rain in the Pacific Northwest here. not something that happens here except rarely. the skylights turned out well. my beautyberry is also covered with berries but it's mockingbirds that eat them here.
ReplyDeleteSo pleased that you are doing your one hundred objects, Ellen. I shall be following with interest. I wonder if you will be as surprised as I was with some of the objects you'll choose after you have dealt with the obvious ones?
ReplyDeleteI'm beginning to wonder if I have 100 objects.
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