Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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Why, yes, I did get Sarah Ogilvie's "The Dictionary People" for Christmas.
And to be defiant in our joy
There is nothing to show a majority in favour of indepence either
And a once in a generation referendum should be just that so, unless you define a generation as 11 years, another one is a way off yet.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1170409/scottish-independence/
How does that compare to this time last year, before the SNP were decimated at the general election?
But it comes back to the same point, there was a vote and you lost.
Stop crying about it and move on!
but, on the subject of the general election you are aware what happened to the SNP in that vote?
And to love you 🎶
Happy New Year Susie.
All the very best.
Happy 2025!🎉
Wishing you - All the Best! 💖✨
An invitation glimpse
A maybe, looking forward
And a wond’ring going on!
‘Maybe’ the most hopeful and lovely word in the English language 😊
It fits well with Rejoin, ReUnite, Restore etc
And less obviously but even more so with #AllOutGreen
#RESPAIR to all!
Bless us everyone!
🙂
#2025
I myself love to get new words and their meanings in my vocabulary.
They scare MAGATS half to death.
https://bsky.app/profile/lukecat666.bsky.social/post/3lcxzpovvu22n
Let's keep the old words alive and folks looking them up.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Also makes me think of the French word that means "to breathe" - "respirer"
Thanks for the words though.
It's the hope.
#HappyNewYear
These talented #YoungPeople were also a wonderful source of hope.
https://youtu.be/efMm6m06qlk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO4Rx7LQ6X8&list=OLAK5uy_nrXMeTZvW1LjnyYQ_eh_llojQE2C-BXA4&index=2
I’ll drink to that 🥂
Can we have a thundering waterfall of Respair please?
It seems wrong though, right now.
Hope isn’t going to do it.
The world expects Donald Trump to be a 'magananimous' leader on the world stage.
*My creation.
Perhaps "unspair" would be good.
Ryanair: the feeling of being alone in a foreign country whilst your luggage is alone in another foreign country.
Porkair: the expectation that Palace will get into the Champions' League.
‘Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth’ would be the respair poem
All the best for 2025
And the sun lifts us from despair,
I once more push wide my window pane,
Take a long, deep breath and respair.
(Not sure if the verb form had made it out of Middle English, but it has now)
May 2025 be full of both 💙🥂
It's our only hope...
if we ever switch to a different system you can say they werent popular
it wasnt just Corbyn, how about Foot? Kinnock? Milliband?
All more left wing than Starmer, none of them electable
Happy 2025 to you.🎉
Happy New Year Susie 🥳❤️