Since I live a little high up and there’s a contract for the window cleaning of the site that I have no involvement with, it’s always a surprise exactly when the windows get cleaned.
But every time this seemingly random event does happen, I get moderately startled as it sounds like a sea eagle has come clattering into the window….. But, it’s a relief to see that instead of a mangled bird, I do instead have clean windows.
Anyway, this isn’t the most exciting content ever, I will admit.
I like getting the monthly e-mail from Google telling me how far that I’ve travelled in the month, it’s a reminder that they can see at all times where I am, but I like looking at the numbers. That flippancy would probably irritate at least some privacy campaigners, but there we go. The data above is for the last four years and it makes me feel happy.
But, Google reminded me today just what the impact of Covid-19 was on my travel arrangements in April 2020.
And, yes, this has been my monthly highlight. It’s made for slightly more challenging blogging, I’ve had to start hunting through a lot of older photos and miscellaneous rubbish to amuse myself during the month. And realistically, no-one else.
Further to my post about Recorder Road, I liked the use of the word “housen”.
The above chart (I’ve embedded it, so if there’s nothing there, blame Google) shows how the word usage has fallen back over the twentieth century, although it was very much a late nineteenth century word. The word ‘housen’ is simply the plural of house, which is a more beautiful word than ‘houses’ and although it was never that common it has become pretty much entirely archaic now.
There aren’t many words now which shove an “n” at the end to make a plural, but there used to be. The plural of tree was sometimes ‘treen’, knee was ‘kneen’, shoe was ‘shoon’ and even Shakespeare used the word ‘eyen’ as the plural for eye. And, of course, in German the practice of adding the ‘n’ is still common for many words.
