Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Sunset from Cliff Rigg

A very wet run this morning over the Cleveland Hills.

And after lunch, the sun came out. Blue skies.

So I dragged the dog up to Cliff Rigg for the sunset.

And she repaid me by thorough belching — I made that phrase up, inspired by the 18th-century expression of a ‘thorough-cough‘ which is coughing and breaking wind backwards at the same time1Grose, Francis. “A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue” 1785.

 

 

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    Grose, Francis. “A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue” 1785

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