I just decided to look the word up, and discovered that it can be a surname. Also, in Ireland scuttery can mean diarrhoea. That figures. Diarrhoea makes a lot of mess and by the end of a scuttery day, you do feel as exhausted as if you'd had it. But scutter also means to scurry about, and that's the definition I was thinking of, particularly of scurrying about aimlessly, which is how scuttery days feel.
If only I'd taken the time to check out the theme for his week's Creative Buzz Hop! It's the perfect antidote to feelings of scutteriness:
Celebrating magnificence.
I've chosen to share a short paragraph, in which magnificence is found in the ordinary.
Her hands are wrapped round her knees, so tight that her pale knuckles form peaks and valleys, as if to mirror the mountains that loom in the darkness behind her. She gazes into the campfire, mesmerized by dancing flames. Pictures appear before her eyes, rising and falling. A face appears in the orange glow, and then flickers suddenly into the shape of a cat; a leaping horse becomes a lion. She watches intently, trying to catch an image before it fades and becomes something else, trying to capture the moment a flame changes from blue to white or orange to red.
Flames by arztsamui via Freedigital photos
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