I’m a Fan.

His beard dangles. Fandangle was not known to me. I checked it up in dict.leo.org, my go-to dictionary, and they had no entry. But they did have a discussion about the term. Somebody had asked about the meaning of a song lyric they had heard, … Continue reading I’m a Fan.

A Clematis by Any Other Name Will Still Look Thus

A member of the clematis family, accredited to many geographical areas, the common names are old man’s beard, traveller’s joy, withywind, swamp leather-flower, devil’s darning needles, virgin’s bower, and possibly a few more. Which one do you fancy? Midweek Monochrome