You may have already seen on the 'About Me' section that My name is Rose Winter. I was sitting down for an hour and a half looking for a name for this blog, during which I ended up scrolling through hundreds of cheesy phrases on Google associated with 'rose' and 'winter'. As you can imagine various 'roses are red' poems and Shakespeare dominated my search, not to mention all the weepy quotations from Rose to Jack in the 1997 film 'Titanic'. I just couldn't think of anything appropriate that includes my name and would let you know what I'm trying to achieve with this blog . Just as I was about to retire to the fridge, I came across John Bellenden Ker's 'Essay on the Archaeology of Popular Phrases', (which is definitely worth a flick through for an insight to some funny and quite strange explanations of where our most used phrases come from) and I came across the phrase
'It was said under the rose'.
Ker went on to explain that it means something which is said in confidence, not to be heard publicly. I also found out when I read on that it had nothing to do with roses at all, as it actually refers to a rose-arch centre-piece of a ceiling, under which a round table is placed where the family would consult over private affairs of the household. I want to share my passions with you, exploring, examining and excavating topics I find interesting in my everyday life, in music, in the news, in different places cultures and times. So I thought I would change this phrase to 'Underneath the Roses' but not referring to the ceiling at all! In this blog you will only find my honesty, sometimes looking beneath what may appear to be a 'bed of roses' (another cheesy phrase that came up). Expect regular posts!
Enjoy :)
John Bellenden Ker; 'Essay on the Archaeology of Popular Phrases'-http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/An_Essay_on_the_Archaeology_of_Our_Popul.html?id=C00oAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
