Monday, 5 December 2022

I Didn't Know I was Permanently in 'Goblin Mode'

'Goblin mode' has been selected, by a first public vote, as the New Oxford dictionary 'word' of the year for 2022. It easily beat 'Metaverse' into second place (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/05/goblin-mode-new-oxford-word-of-the-year). 'Goblin mode' apparently means 'a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, greedy, typical in a way that rejects social norms or expectations'. I have never heard the phrase before (led a sheltered life) but it sounds about right, as a description of my normal modus operandi.

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Birder's Bonus 241

Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.