When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you,
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
till it seems you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up
then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Monday Muddle: plum, plumb
plum: (noun) a fruit; the tree that grows the fruit; (adjective) ideal; highly desirable; a reddish-purple colour plumb: (adjective) to be perfectly vertical; to be perpendicular to the base; (noun) a weight, traditionally lead, on a piece of string (commonly referred to as a plumb bob); (verb) to measure the …

