Transports of Delight

Blue glass paperweights in the courtyard.
SOOC except for modest crops left and right.

TRANSPORT: DDW July challenge by Anniemay

Today Blipfoto is my vehicle for transports of delight.

1. Having it my way.

I wanted to show the beautiful colors and patterns of the paperweights in yesterday's almost-b&w blip. Doing as one pleases is usually delightful (except when it would have turned out better if one did as one was told).

2. Nominee for worst hymn ever.

"The King of Love My Shepherd Is" is based on the 23rd Psalm. Not an improvement over King David's version! Here is the substitute for "My cup runneth over":
and oh, what transport of delight
from thy pure chalice floweth!

I also take delight in revealing that Anglican clergypersons try to avoid having the hymn sung at weddings because of this verse:
Perverse and foolish, oft I strayed,
but yet in love he sought me;
and on his shoulder gently laid,
and home, rejoicing, brought me.
It's about a shepherd and a sheep, I'm told.

3. "Transport of Delight" by Flanders and Swann. About a London omnibus.
Performed here; lyrics here.

4. New words for scribbler.
Blipfoto has been expanding my vocabulary in delightful ways. Here is my list thus far.

bap - a small bun or roll
bikkies - small flat sweet biscuits
biro - ballpoint pen
blowing a hoolie - blowing up a storm
bosky - Having an abundance of bushes, shrubs, or trees
Cellotape - Scotch tape
chough - ("CHUFF") a kind of crow
clobber - clothes (Brit. slang)
craic (as in 'a mighty craic') - rollicking good time of gossip, music, drinking, fun (as in a pub)
crikey - exclamation!
des res - UK real estate lingo for 'desirable residence' now in common parlance
dreich - bleak, dreary ("DREECH" with ch like Hebrew)
eau de nil - pale yellowish green color ("water of the Nile")
haar - the thick sea fog that rolls in from the North Sea, especially in eastern Scotland - sudden appearance and striking opacity.
Kiwi - native New Zealander
lurgi - cough/croup/cold? feeling lousy? NZ/Aus
mizzle - light rain; drizzle
Oiche Shamhna - Halloween ("night of November")
pants - adj., of poor quality; EmmySu wrote "the light was pants"
rucksack - backpack; possibly more a day pack as opposed to a backpack w/frame for overnight camping
polytunnel - a/k/a hoop greenhouse, for protecting plants from intense sunlight, cold, hail, etc.
snag - sausage (Aussie)
sparrowfart - crack of dawn
tap - faucet
tetchy - peevish, testy, touchy, easily made angry, unhappy, or upset
yomp - Royal Marines slang describing a long distance march carrying full kit

Corrections and additions cheerfully solicited.

And those are today's transports of delight (so far).