Favourite words

I've been coming up with my favourite word, which is very difficult. I always do this, and so the words often change. But at the moment the word is plump. It is so happy and pleasing, with the popping p sounds at each end. I love it.

Also on the short-list were:
-serendipity
-cobble
-moon

Text Literature

This competition seems like a really interesting idea. Each month one must write a story on a theme. But the story can be no longer than a text. Of course Ernest Hemingway outdid this in his six word story:

'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.'

There is more about very very very short fiction in this article. Can any of you write a story in six words. I think I might give it a try.

Lavender's Blue 

Lavender's Blue Dilly-Dilly,
Lavender's Green,
When I am King Dilly-Dilly
You shall be Queen

Finding this photograph, which I took during the summer, inspired me to find out more about the history and uses of lavender. In fact, the word has an extraordinary etymology. And to find out about lavender harvest, I watched this video.