Category: General

One ditto at a time

There is an extremely small word that Lb for Lb could be the strongest in the written form of the English language. This word is ditto. Nobody ever writes ditto. Ditto is one of the least written words in our vocabulary. Little ditto has a symbol and the symbol is “. Ditto, of course, means to repeat. “ is a great thing to have up your sleeve if you can’t be bothered writing out “stayed in and watched TV” in your diary entry day after day. That five word sentence could be written in shorthand with five dittos. Ditto is also very simple to write being as it is a small downwards (or upwards, if you’re the glass half-full kind of person) two marks on the paper. Continue reading “One ditto at a time”

Unusual Visitor

It’s been raining here for a few days, this morning it was sunny and warm. I noticed that the overnight geese were staying in the creek and took the camera to try to get some pictures. The geese are wiley creatures and always have “sentries” stationed around the outside of the group keeping their heads up while the others sleep or feed, anyway they saw me and all swam off over to the other side of the creek, leaving me only with another shot of the boat and some “specks”. Then camera in hand I spotted this guy on the floating dock.

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