-Ness....................

[veggiechicken]

Not the Loch Ness monster but words ending with "ness".

I keep coming across words that mean very little to me - like "wellness" and "mindfulness". Try as I might to understand why there have been countless books devoted to "mindfulness" the concept still escapes me. It seems to be an idea that you wander around thinking about nothing but now. Maybe someone who is more erudite than wot I is, can enlighten me.


Meanwhile, I've been thinking about other "-ness" that seem more appropriate -

Seediness - when one's thoughts are solely on what to sow next, or sorting the seed box, or perusing seed catalogues.

Weediness - the despair that fills one when looking at an overgrown plot.

Happiness - many meanings - the delight in eating something you've grown, watching seedlings emerge, a sunny day in the garden etc.

Any more??

[SarrissUK]

haha that's a very good description of mindfulness VC!

My pet peeve -ness word is joblessness. I mean... seriously?

My feeling of joyfulness whilst potting stuff on, watching it grow. Joyfulness - a lovely word

[veggiechicken]

Joyfulness - perfect word, Sarriss, life should be full of it.

Earthiness - when you raised beds are full to the top with glorious "earthiness".

[JanieB]

Soulfulness/sadness - when your carefully nurtured develop a disease and/or die.

[veggiechicken]

Helplessness - when you need someone to give you a hand with the big jobs - like putting up a greenhouse, or cutting the hedges - and there's nobody around to lend a hand.

[Scarlet]

Cleanliness - something that never entered my head this morning while potting on my plants in the kitchen, complete with bag of compost

[bramble]

Helplessness - when you need someone to give you a hand with the big jobs - like putting up a greenhouse, or cutting the hedges - and there's nobody around to lend a hand.

VC....you need the neediness thread.
Need someone to help put up a greenhouse or cutting down a hedge

[Vince G]

Broccoliness.

"Mrs Hudson, you have excelled yourself with this glorious plate of vegetables", exclaimed Watson, admiring the feast laid before them on the dining table. "Indeed", added Holmes, "there is significant carrotage, some tremendous parsnipitude, and an admirable offering of broccoliness".

The Adventure of the Lost Brassica, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1897

[veggiechicken]

Highness - when you just can't reach the apple, pear or bean without standing on something that you don't have.

[SarrissUK]

Emptiness - when you've potted on the last seedling in the last seed tray.....

[Thelma Sanders]

Mindfulness is useful during time of sadness or depression, it's keeping your mind on the task you are doing, so you give it your full attention and focus, just doing it as well as you can, even if it's only the washing up - instead of letting your mind wander off to a thousand other jobs that need doing, or focussing on all the things that may not be going right, but which you have no control over.
You begin to relearn value in everyday things, rather than always looking for something else.
I think most of us are mindful when we are gardening, though, it somehow reconnects us.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Thelma.
I can't imagine keeping my mind on anything for long.

[Lardman]

Legginess - When you've sown too soon.
Fumbliness - The measure of how small a seed is and how hard to sow.
Indistinguishiness - A scale to determine your chances of identifying tomato/pepper/ brassica varieties after forgetting to label them.

[Thelma Sanders]

It certainly exercises the brain, but that's the point ...... you are trying to bring it back under control.

Some people would say that you are someone who would really benefit from learning how to do it .... but, my scatterbrain advises I shouldn't comment on that

[veggiechicken]

Fruitiness - the opposite of Fruitlessness - Fruitiness being the better option - when your trees and bushes are laden with fruit and you have no idea what to do with it all.