the word for 01.12.09 is COLLECTION

Today l had to go back to Richmond to pick up my car from the garage after its successful MOT. I caught the bus but oh my goodness, l had not expected so many traffic jams resulting from the Victorian Water Mains being replaced all over London. After half hour on the bus..l should have been there by now....instead l was on about a quater of the way there!! l decided to walk...it is a 30 min walk but hey..it had stopped rainning. I had been thinking as l do everyday what l was going to photograph for my word, which today was COLLECTION. Nothing had inspired me all day, then as l was walking instead of being on the bus..l saw my word. On a wall out side a block of flats, was a row of empty milk bottles waiting for tomorrow's delivery and an extra delight! Next to the milk bottles was a collection of discarded  Financial Times..pink and still wrapped up and tied up in an electic band. Two collections in one. Just because l walked instead of riding on the bus. Fate!

collection |kəˈlek sh ən|noun1 the action or process of collecting someone or something : the collection of maple sap | tax collection• a regular removal of mail for dispatch or of trash for disposal.• an instance of collecting money in a church service or for a charitable cause : when she died, they took up a collection for her burial.• a sum collected in this way.2 a group of things or people : a rambling collection of houses.• an assembly of items such as works of art, pieces of writing, or natural objects, esp. one systematically ordered : paintings from the permanent collection | a record collection.• ( collections) an art museum's holdings organized by medium, such as sculpture, painting, or photography.• a book or recording containing various texts, poems, songs, etc. : a collection of essays.• a range of new clothes produced by a fashion house : a preview of their autumn collection.ORIGIN late Middle English : via Old French from Latin collectio(n-), from colligere ‘gather together’ (see collect 1 ).