Update on DH's Health

[Haudlady]

Thanks for the replies... and for letting me moan a little bit! I'm feeling more cheerful this afternoon. It just comes in waves, like any emotion.

it may well be a bagatelle

Bagatelle? I had never heard that word before! Is this what you mean?

From Wikipedia: A bagatelle is a game-like literary tool used in fiction. The author empowers a character or object beyond natural or expected abilities (i.e. of comprehension, awareness, memory, etc.) so that it may carry a point across to the reader more transparently. A bagatelle creates a more direct communication between author and reader than common in fiction; it is the equivalent of a wink.

Ha! Maybe the fates are just winking at us!

[Duck on Wheels]

Ha! Cool. I've never really looked up a definition of bagatelle, always just thought it meant something relatively insignificant. I may be confused about this because that's how the word is used in Norwegian. As sometimes happens with words, when they move across languages they can shift meanings. Husbond in Norwegian means a farmer (as in animal husbandry), moved to English it came to mean male partner in a marriage; kvinne (woman) became queen (royal female). I wonder what bagatelle means in French?
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OK. Dictionary report. Bagatelle (Fr) means bagatell (Nor). Websters shows the first definition of bagatelle in English as "trifle" (and I don't think they mean the British English dessert). So all three are pretty consistent. The second Websters definition is where Wikipedia picks up. Anyway, to get back to the important point:
Here's hoping that the colonoscopy reports show nothing seriously wrong. [Duck lifts her teacup for a toast]