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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Last night's moon was bright orange at around 3.30am ... low in the sky so seen through layers of earth's very dusty atmosphere.

    Temp yesterday reached 35.4C here ... today it's already 30.5C and climbing ...

    The words 'temperature' and 'temper' are quite similar .................  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Rg. I wish there was a snort emoji!
    Distract him with a bit of grunt work in the garden.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited July 2018
    It turns out the words come from Old English temprian ‘to bring something into the required condition by mixing it with something else’, from Latin temperare  ‘mingle, restrain, moderate’. This Latin word, in turn, derives from tempus 'time or season'. 'To lose ones temper', is there for to lose balance or restraint.

    The words 'temperature' and 'temperament' were once synonymous. By 'taking the temperature', you are testing the state, the mix, the condition - seeing how in or out of balance things are.




  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Thank you Fire ... I love the Engish language .... and that of course explains the use of 'to season' in cooking  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    What's that a picture of @Fire?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It looks like the verb 'to season' comes from the Latin root serere  ‘to sow’.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    All the thunderstorms and rain that were due last night, no this morning, no this afternoon, oh... have disappeared from my forecast. Rain is forecast tomorrow and Sunday, but even that is down to ~15% likelihood. So I guess that probably won't happen. I am so fed up.

    I love etymology and all that, but feeling far too curmudgeonly to engage. Harumph.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2018
    Fire said:
    It looks like the verb 'to season' comes from the Latin root serere  ‘to sow’.
    and yet it works so well if it comes from the other root  ;)  seasoning ... adjusting the balance .... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    All those beautiful blue teardrops on the weather map -and all for naught :'(
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    LauraRoslin said:
    That privacy thing is getting really annoying.  I'll come back when it's fixed.
    And it seems to be fixed!  Thank you to the techy who did it.  

    And it's too bloody hot!  I'm so sick of not being able to go outside after two months of it.  

    And the rain is (allegedly) appearing here on just the one day we don't want it.   Our local Castle ruins are having their eagerly anticipated Medieval Day on Sunday.   Guess when it's due to thunder?  Oh yes!  2 hours of rain in nearly 3 months and now this!   I swear the Rain God is doing it on purpose.
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
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