Today’s words :-
Insouciance – the quality of being carefree; a lack of concern.
Impavid – fearless, undaunted
Inficete – humourless, unfunny, deadly serious
Ichthyoasanthotoxism – poisoning from the sting or bite of a fish
I was running, jumping, skipping. Flowers to my left, a babbling brook to my right. I saw a frog, it smiled. A blackbird sang me a merry tune as the sun played hide and seek with some fluffy white clouds. I chased a butterfly, I twitched my nose at a rabbit. I blew a kiss to a fairy (only joking, actually I waved). I was in blissful insouciance.
I ventured upon a chasm. My impavid nature dared me to leap across. Arms and legs stretched I took off like an eagle. Unfortunately, I misjudged it. To be honest, it wasn’t exactly a chasm, it was a fox’s hole and my left foot shot down it causing a startled fox to pop out of another hole a few yards away.
Despite hurting my little toe, I managed to muster a smile in its direction, but the inficete creature just frowned at me.
I limped to the pub to drown my sorrows. My injuries could have been worse. Suppose I’d been bitten by an ant or stung by a nettle. I could even have suffered ichthyoasanthotoxism whilst wading across the lake. Okay, it wasn’t a lake, just a puddle, but you never know.
I was on my fifth pint (and fifth whisky chaser) when the pompous looking man in the painting over the fireplace stuck his tongue out at me. How rude.
Tomorrow’s words
Jongleur – jocoserious – jaconet – jaculate
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Hilarious.
First to the party again! Thanks, Sadje.
You’re welcome 😉
Thanks for vocabularies 😂
My pleasure, thanks for dropping by.
Your welcome 💗
Heeheehee! You are very inventive!
I try! Cheers, Mimi.
You missed I for Imbibe and Inebriated. When men in paintings start to Irritate you, you’ve overquaffed. 😉
After all those drinks I wouldn’t have been able to spell them!
Oh my you do find yourself going on some insouciant, impavid adventures don’t you? 🙂
I do seem to, at least until the A2Z’s over!
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How rude! The man and the fish were sooooooooo insensitive! Shame on those incredible idiots!
I quite agree with you Kathe!
Hee hee ….. too much whiskey followed by chasers is a great idea to deal with a swollen toe! I actually knew of a man who suffered from poisoning due to a fish bite ( can’t pronounce your tongue twister ) and almost died of it !
Really! My chap was lucky he avoided the thing with the long name then!
How rude indeed. Really enjoyed your post. I got three of them today! Even Ichthyoasanthotoxism. Feeling really proud of myself. Thank you for lifting my spirits, Keith. 😄
Wow, I’m impressed! Delighted to have been of service Shweta
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I am in incurable splits.
Very funny story.
Wow, that sounds painful! Cheers Arti.
I am glad he had the pub to go to, to drown his sorrows!
I suspect he used his ‘injury’ as an excuse to have a drink or ten! Cheers Namratha.
How’s the toe? 😛
Ichthyoasanthotoxism! The day the get the spelling right (I copy-pasted here), I’m going to as happy as winning a lottery.
Where do you get these words from? They are totally fab. 😀
It’s slowly recovering! I spent ages Googling lots of weird word sites until I found enough examples to keep me going for a month! BTW, I copy/paste the the long ones too!
My God Keith. You got a tough one there. I tried hard to memorise Ichthyoasanthotoxism. Someday…
The first para was quite poetic.
…and then it went downhill! You really should remember it, it comes in very useful in everyday conversation!
Haha no…Not at all💐💐
Hoooooo, so good!! Funny story, one more to entertain us! I love this long word starting by “Ich”, I will not even try to write it…
I is for Improv
I don’t know why it has to be so long, but there it is! Really pleased you liked it
I suspect he was inordinately inebriated.
Cheers,
CRD
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… and I suspect you are correct! Thanks
Straight from the highs of drunken diary…hehehe. Hilarious one!
Absolutely! Glad it amused you Anagha
Fabulous entertainment! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Thanks betty and it was my pleasure
At the present time, we all need to be impavid.
Your story was fun to read.
Indeed we do! Thanks Suzy.
sorry for the delay…yesterday got away from me. I am so enjoying your words and sense of humor! You are definitely not an inficete man! Cheers!
Haha! Thanks so much Kathe
You taught me some new words today. I hope you are doing good and staying safe.
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Thanks so much. All fine here, hopefully with you too.!