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 A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
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Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end. So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.     |
| Everything The song chosen for The 48-Hour Challenge Media Prompt for February is unusual in its title. The simple word “Everything” would seem a bit large to be dealt with in a song of less than four minutes. My mind drifts away to the everything bagel. The first time I saw an everything bagel, I thought immediately that it must be flavoured with all the spices in the book. That is surely what the name means, after all. And I continued under this delusion for a few years afterwards. In that time, I tried the everything bagel quite often and, while not becoming my favourite variation on the bagel theme, it was acceptable at least. I was even quite pleased when I discovered that it was possible to buy a bottle of this mixture of spices to sprinkle on things other than bagels. That was also the period in which I discovered it was possible to have too much of a good thing. Sprinkle an excess of everything seasoning on your favourite foodstuff and you’ll wish you hadn’t. Moderation is definitely the way to go with this baby. Anyway, that’s leading me away from my point in all this. The time came when I discovered that everything seasoning does not contain all the types of spices under the sun. It’s a selection! You can imagine my disappointment. The whole thing is a misnomer, apparently. In fact, it seems that the spice world has a weakness for this kind of thing. They also have something called allspice that is really just one spice obtained from a certain unripe berry. Talk about misleading the gullible public (yes, I know I’m a good example of this but I maintain that there’s nothing wrong with innocence). So my feelings regarding Michael Bublé’s Everything song are cautious, to say the least. Does he really mean it and is it possible that he’s managed to include everything in his offering? My newfound skepticism laughs at the very idea. Word count: 331 |
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