My Life on a Plate

Only One Direction To Go

I'm feeling a bit down today for various reasons, some logical, some not, so I thought the following rather appropriate. Not my words again but for anyone who loves the English language it might be interesting.

'There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other and that is the word UP.

It's easy to understand UP meaning towards the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. We brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and guys fix UP old cars.

At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing. A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem pretty mixed UP about UP.

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost a quarter of the the page and adds UP to around thirty definitions.

If you are UP to it, try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP When it doesn't rain for awhile things dry UP

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP so...time to shut UP.

Oh, one more thing:

what is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?

U...P

Okay, okay I'm going. UP the stairs to Bedfordshire. I should never stay UP until this time. I think I might have trouble getting UP in the morning. Nighty Night and may you feel UPlifted and happy.