There are just a couple of white roses and two beautiful carnations left from the bouquet the family gave me on my birthday over three weeks ago. .
Our gardening magazine arrived with a free packet of seeds. They suggest we plant them along with Cosmos which I love so we’ll try that. Watch this space in the summer!
Regular readers will know that I love words and here’s one I found today in a wonderful book, The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth, snollygoster. The O.E.D. defines snollygoster as ‘A shrewd, unprincipled person, esp a politician.’ It was defined in the 1890s by an American journalist thus:
I just love the phrase ‘Monumental talknophical assumnacy!” A number of people come to mind!
I was just checking which words I have used before from Mark Forsyth’s book and came across a post from 2012 which has lots of photos of my knitting of that year! I was amazed to see everything I’d created in those 12 months! https://mybeautfulthings.com/2013/01/04/weekly-photo-challenge-my-2012-in-pictures-a-year-of-knitting/
utesmile
January 27, 2026 at 11:10 am
What a word…. perfect for the politicians.
mybeautfulthings
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 pm
That’s exactly what I thought, both those here and across the pond. 🙂
nrhatch
January 25, 2026 at 4:17 pm
Thanks for the word . . . which describes our politicians to a T!
Loved seeing those knitting projects. You are so crafty!
mybeautfulthings
January 25, 2026 at 7:48 pm
Ours as well, sadly. Stay strong in this scary world. xx
artfulcrone
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 pm
Snollygoster…Yes, I can think of someone that might describe. I can think of harsher words also.
On a kinder note, the flowers are lovely!
mybeautfulthings
January 25, 2026 at 7:47 pm
Yes, I could think of someone on each side of the pond who could be described thus! 🙂
Ark
January 24, 2026 at 8:55 pm
Yours’ is knitting, mine seems to be birds, bees butterflies etc… and now more gardening
I recently got an anniversary notice from WordPress… 13 years!
My goodness, where does the time go?