Random 6/8/2021

On Twitter I recently discovered a Britishism that I hadn’t seen before. The word was “cagoule,” which is apparently a type of jacket roughly synonymous with what we’d call a “windbreaker.” As is always the way with new words, once I saw it in one place it immediately popped up in another, in this case The Great British Baking Show.
I was standing outside the front door one day, minding my own business, when a hummingbird approached the feeder. It paused a moment when it saw me standing there, then continued to the far side of the feeder. Finding the feeder empty, it flew back toward me, and, hovering in the air, it looked me dead in the eye and yelled at me in hummingbird speech. I didn’t understand the words, but I got the message. I went back inside and instructed my husband to fill up the feeder ASAP. Now the hummingbirds have food again, and they have not harassed me since.

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