It was rather cloudy and drizzly this morning on my way into school. Fortunately it cleared up later and we even had some sunny spells. By the time I was heading home, after a fairly non-descript day, it was quite foggy. I drove out of town with my lights on and limited visibility with the outlines of trees looming around me. As I got higher I noticed that it was getting lighter and I could even see the occasional patch of blue above. Approaching Shirwell I suddenly burst into bright sunshine. In my mirror I could see that the whole of the river valley was covered with a thick blanket of fog.
I stopped up by the Lewis' farm to take in the amazing view. I was bathed in bright sun looking down on a sea of fog that had obscured all of the valleys.
I was a bit later than usual as I'd had to go and buy some more cat food due to leaving the top off the bin that I keep the bags of cat food in and 2 of the cats spending a happy Saturday taking it in turns to climb into the box and stuff themselves full of cat food. Their bulging stomachs gave the miscreants away. The diversion to the supermarket made it a bit late to go walking today.
Rant of the day, am I old fashioned in objecting to nouns being used as adverbs? It really makes me cringe to hear such things as 'She sang beautiful(ly)'. or ' He played amazing(ly)'. I find this inability to add a suffix to be lazy speech rather than a natural evolution, on a par with saying 'we was'. Perhaps the English language is being dumbed down to the lowest common denomenator and I'm just a finickity old woman, after all I'm not above using a split infintive to strongly emphasise a point!
I stopped up by the Lewis' farm to take in the amazing view. I was bathed in bright sun looking down on a sea of fog that had obscured all of the valleys.
I was a bit later than usual as I'd had to go and buy some more cat food due to leaving the top off the bin that I keep the bags of cat food in and 2 of the cats spending a happy Saturday taking it in turns to climb into the box and stuff themselves full of cat food. Their bulging stomachs gave the miscreants away. The diversion to the supermarket made it a bit late to go walking today.Rant of the day, am I old fashioned in objecting to nouns being used as adverbs? It really makes me cringe to hear such things as 'She sang beautiful(ly)'. or ' He played amazing(ly)'. I find this inability to add a suffix to be lazy speech rather than a natural evolution, on a par with saying 'we was'. Perhaps the English language is being dumbed down to the lowest common denomenator and I'm just a finickity old woman, after all I'm not above using a split infintive to strongly emphasise a point!
1 comment:
Absolutely beautiful, Ruta~!!
Elora
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