I have been inspired to start my own blog by reading that of another blogger; someone who is not yet my friend but to whom I can lay a small claim. I allow myself this link because my best friend spent time with him in Sydney, lolling in the grass.

So tentatively I begin my first post, a little unsure of what to write, a little unsure of how to write it. Nervously I taste the words that come; the large and the small of them, the right and the wrong of them, determined that they should compliment one another before I send them off into the world. This linguistic vanity is typical of me, I am not lazy with syntax, or lax with semantics. I do not care very much if I do not have my make up on, but I could not go out in public without the right words in my head. This sounds like I plan every conversation that takes place, but I am referring only to the written word, these words I send out to other people, the ones with permanence.

Interestingly, I seem now to have talked my way round to today�s subject: I am not the only one with this language obsession, a site I was sent today is introduced as follows: An experiment in language and interface, Plumb Design's Visual Thesaurus is both an artistic exploration and a tool to explore, study, and analyze the structure of language. By displaying the interrelationships between words and meanings as spatial maps, the Visual Thesaurus translates language into a visible architecture. I like the idea of visualising the structure of language because as well as my passion for words I am also a very visual person. I think in pictures. If you say �word� to me, I will see a picture of a word.

So Plumbs Thesaurus pleases my visual, wordy mind immensely.