Out & About …

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

Tag: lexicology

  • ‘Uitwaaien’ on Hasty Bank

    ‘Uitwaaien’ on Hasty Bank

    I was reminded of a Dutch idiom this morning: ‘uitwaaien‘, which means to go walking in windy weather to clear your head or lift your heart. . For the first half hour or so, I took a favourite path of mine, along the southern flank of the long flat-topped Hasty Bank, the easternmost of ‘the […]

  • A blate cat maks a gallus moose

    A blate cat maks a gallus moose

    A dreich morning at Bloworth Crossing. Lots of water around — on the ground and in the air. Actually ‘dreich’ is quite an apt word to use on St. Andrew’s Day, the patron saint of Scotland — and also of golfers and fishermen, but that’s by the by. The word comes to us from, of […]

  • Kissing Gate, top of Thief Lane

    Kissing Gate, top of Thief Lane

    At the top of Thief Lane there is a five-bar metal gate which I heard had succumbed to the ravishes of Storm Arwen but it seems the farmer has wasted no time in fixing it so I had to make do with the adjacent kissing gate. I’d thought of entitling the post ‘Gate-crashed‘, which is […]

  • Rainbow, rainbow, Brack an gang hame …

    Rainbow, rainbow,
    Brack an gang hame …

    The dark clouds to the north east have been ominous all day. Kept at bay by the bitterly cold nor-westerlies. There’s always something striking about a rainbow. They are always in the opposite direction to the sun and a ‘Rainbow in the morning gives fair warning’ indicates rain in the west and generally heading your […]