During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.
Magic Wand flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC links to a toot to ask us
Which words make you prick your ears up and get your attention? What do others know to call out to make you respond? Tell us what your real name is, and why.
For a long time we only called Cagney by her name when she was being naughty, so when she heard her name her ears would go down and she would slink away. Even now when I call her name when she’s in the garden she races to the door because she assumes she’s being told off. So there’s that …
But the words that get my attention and make me prick up my ears are numerous. Anything to do with DS106 or the Daily Create will grab my attention, likewise just mention remix or bricolage and you’ve got me hooked. Indeed, my online handle of NomadWarMachine is so much a part of who I am that I’ll happily answer to that, or the more usual abbreviation to Nomad.
And other words that will work are anything to do with knitting – say ‘yarn shop’ and I’ll follow you wherever you are going!
Pizza and real ale also work really well.
