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A storm, the edge of dryness
rumbling-on and bubbling-up
brewing, a hunger acruing
where drought and flood
are preordained to meet
in one pulsating, cascading beat
an offering, a sacrifice
now the gift of rain will suffice.

-lauren6

[After half a dozen 'beefy' storms passed us by throughout July, here in Norfolk, tonight, finally, one has blessed our parched earth with a downpour, but it may be too much in one go, running into the depleted rivers and out to sea. But no complaints this time!]

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Are we on-track
aligned or alloyed?
meeting our targets
obsessed with headsets

Or would we prefer
a simple caress
behind an embrace
defining the place

If it's true
that money corrupts
then it's also true
that love renews, absolutely

Hope to cherish
belief to continue
the future path
already with you.

-lauren6

After one year of having this blog, I will enter the description of lovely Wensum...the reason for this blog's name, is of course the river...

The River Wensum is a river in Norfolk, England and a tributary of the River Yare. The source of the Wensum lies between the villages of Colkirk and Whissonsett in Norfolk. The river flows westward initially through the village of Raynham passing close to Raynham Hall, home of the Marquis Townshend. The river then turns and follows a path to the north flowing through a number of small villages. An 18th century water mill (now a hotel and restaurant) bridges the river at Sculthorpe. The river then turns and flows to the east through the market town of Fakenham where it is bridged by another c18 water mill that was in use until 1979. The river then flows in a south easterly direction passing through the Pensthorpe Nature reserve and the village of Great Ryburgh.
The river then flows onwards through the villages Great Witchingham, Lenwade and Taverham before entering the City of Norwich. The river then merges with the river Yare to the south of the city before flowing eastward through Breydon Water to the North Sea at Great Yarmouth.

The river is navigable from the centre of Norwich to its confluence with the River Yare.

wikipedia.

AFRONT- in front
AHIND - behind
ATWIN - between
BISHY BARNEY BEE-Lady Bird
BOR - neighbour or boy
BRED AND BORN - Norfolk purists insist this is the proper order not"born and bred"
COR BLARST ME! - favourite Norfolk expletive along "Well,I'll be blowed!" lines
DEW YEW KEEP A TROSHIN! - carry on with the threshing - but is another way of saying "goodbye" or "look after yourself"
DUDDER - to shiver "all of a dudder"
GUZUNDER - CHAMBER POT(guzunder the bed!)
HOLD YEW HARD! - Hang on a moment
JIP - aggravation,annoyance in the sense of pain
JOLLIFICEARTIONS - fun, joviality
LEND US A LUG - asking someone else to listen into a conversation for you(this is one of my father's expressions!)
LOKE - lane or alley,usually enclosed
LOLLOP - to progress slowly
LUMMOX - clumsy or ungainly person("git yew out o'the way yew gret lummox!")
MARDLE - 1.to gossip,chat at leisure;2 a village pond
MAWTHER - girl or young woman
OLD YEAR'S NYTE -New Year's Eve
ON THE HUH - awry,slanted or not level
RUM - curious,strange,funny
SQUIT - talking nonsense
TITTY-TOTTY - Very small
WARMINT - varmint or vermin,troublesome person "come here you young warmint I'll sort yew out!"
NOTE:many words beginning with V take a W start in Norfolk - warmint,wittles and willage among them.There are also examples of the letter being changed in the middle of the word i.e. aggravating becomes aggraweartin.

ZACKLEY - exactly ("thass zackly ryte!")

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5564/dictionary.html

NORFOLK PHRASES IN DIALECT

I got suffen a-shew yo: I've got something to show you
Um nowagorn: I'm now going
Tha's a lotta ol squit: That's a lot of nonsense
Hold y'r blaaren': Stop crying
As loike this 'ere: 'ere It's like this
Cor,yu do look queer: You don't look very well!
Garpen outa the winder: Looking out of the window
Yu'll larf th'other side a y'r kisser sune: You wont find that very funny soon
U'l ding yu over: I'll hit you
Um hoolly dry: I'm very thirsty
I'll box your chops: I'll smack your cheeks
Verra loikely: Possibly

Norfolk ways;

PAST He say,
PRESENT I say,
FUTURE I'll say
A sentence thus constructed would be unintelligible to other than an East Anglian, viz:

"go he say I say,du I dint I say,but he will keep on a-sayen' so I'll say......"

The above phrases and tenses were taken from an East Anglian Magazine dated April 1960. It was written by The Rev.A.D.Jones,A.L.C.D.

Link

It's happy
this morning anew
the sky shines through
blues and whites
hazes from the night
shrieking Jay's pass
lavender scents
July's aflame
yesterday survived
today's for you.

-lauren6