Oddments

[poliphilo]

I'd have guessed ecru was a shade of blue. No very good reason except that it sounds that way. Ailz is back doing cross-stitch and the pattern she's working on calls for certain little twirly bits to be done in ecru. Anyway I looked it up and it's a cousin of beige- only more yellowy. Beige sounds like beige but ecru doesn't sound like ecru- if you see what I mean- which is why I'm unlikely to put the word in a poem any time soon.

I think the rat was in the kitchen again early this morning. The evidence is suggestive rather than conclusive- noises, a spice jar knocked into the rubbish bin, a meaty piece of string dragged to the middle of the floor. Since s/he keeps coming back I think s/he needs a more than generic name. The rabbits are Tish and Tosh. The rat can be Trash. Ailz suggests getting a cat to complete- or deplete- the menage.

We took my father in law to the doctor's last night and then to fill a prescription. I was the fittest of the party and got to do all the leg work. The nearest out-of-hours pharmacy was in Sainsbury's. I still find it slightly weird that prescription medicines are being dispensed in supermarkets. One of the guys in the pharmacy queue was also buying carrots - and the white coated assistant put them through the till for him.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing it comes from the French. That's what it sounds like, anyway.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

"Ecru describes the shade greyish-pale yellow or a light greyish-yellowish brown. It is often used to describe such fabrics as silk and linen in their unbleached state. Ecru comes from the French word écru, which means literally 'raw' or 'unbleached'."

-According to Wikipedia, and to me it sounds quite convincing since the modern word for "raw" is "cru".

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

To me it suggests "ecu" which suggests a gold coin which suggests gold fleur de lys on a royal blue background. Yes, I know it doesn't make much sense, but that's how my mind works.