Verbing, or what grammar nerds refer to as denominalization, is a modern (and perhaps not very desirable) linguistic trend, but that is what we did today – we summitted Mount Coot-Tha. The worst culprits for verbing are sports commentators (” … will he/she medal in this event …”) but also business people (“… we need to workshop that” or “… we must action that and fast-track it …”), so perhaps in the light of this (mis)use of language we will describe what we did today as walking to the summit of Mount Coot-Tha.
After a slight misunderstanding with Google Maps and resultant diversion, we did eventually get there – there being the J C Slaughter Falls picnic area. We parked there and then walked the 2.5km to the summit. Despite being a little grey, the view was excellent and even in the rain, the walk back down via the J C Slaughter Falls (which were underwhelming in terms of the amount of water!) was lovely.
On our way back to our accommodation (well it wasn’t really on the way, but not very far) we also drove back via Churchie. The school was quite understandably completely deserted on Easter Sunday, but we were still able to walk around a little and, though many parts of the school had changed beyond recognition with extensive building works, the classroom where I taught by the creek was still easily identifiable, even after 33 years!
