BAH! HUMBUG!

So the world didn't end. Again. What a surprise.  I could have predicted that. First of all the world won't end with rapture, fire and brimstone, and any other Hollywood pyrotechnics. It'll be with a slow whimper.


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...a copy of Winter Warmers.  Stumbling Over Chaos is hosting a giveaway.


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cockle 1 |ˈkäkəl|

noun

1 an edible, burrowing bivalve mollusk with a strong ribbed shell. • Genus Cardium, family Cardiidae.

2 (also cockleshell) poetic/literary a small shallow boat.

PHRASES

warm the cockles of one's heart give one a comforting feeling of pleasure or contentment.

ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French coquille ‘shell,’ based on Greek ( Read more... )

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