Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
I thought I’d continue the adventures of Barbie and Ken.
“One for sorrow – two for joy. Two, two, come on I need two… Oh Jeez, Joey, this isn’t a good sign.” Ken was looking frantically around the park.
“What are you going on about bruv?” Joey took his shades off and checked the colour of his torso. It had been a long time since he’d attempted a tan the traditional way in Essex. Usually, he kept his Marbs colour topped up at the spray tan booth, but there was an unexpected heat wave, and he wasn’t about to lose the chance to get a bit of British sun too.
“I need to see another one. Can you find one? You know, one for sorrow, two for joy? That rhyme they say about those birds, you know, like that one over there?” Ken’s eyes darted around the trees fencing the green. ” I need all the help I can get with me and Barbie at the moment, and I can’t be seeing no ‘one for sorrow’, not today. I need joy. I need two. I need a sign!”
“Erm, Ken, mate, listen. I know what you mean, but before you get all stupid about this, that ain’t no magpie you’re looking at, anyway… it’s a crow!”
“Is it?! Oh God! What does that mean, when I see none?!”
Joey rolled his eyes at his henpecked pal, lowered his sunglasses and lay back to soak in a few more rays…
To be continued…
But I Smile Anyway... 
Jan 15, 2018 @ 12:22:30
Ken, you’re trying. That’s a start.
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Jan 15, 2018 @ 15:55:42
He is indeed, bless him!
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Jan 15, 2018 @ 16:01:51
🙂
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Jan 13, 2018 @ 15:13:22
HAHA! I do love hapless Ken, he can’t get it right at all! 🙂
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Jan 13, 2018 @ 18:26:34
Bless him Lol!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 23:52:34
Well, at least he is trying. 😉😎🥀
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Jan 13, 2018 @ 08:08:06
HE is doing that at least! 😀
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 20:49:20
Oh, my gosh… that poor boy… lol!!!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 21:15:39
It’s never ending sis!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 21:48:05
It seems… lol! No cure for Ken!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 22:41:50
😀
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 11:33:10
Ha ha ha ha. Do you think Sindy’s reaction would not have been this discouraging? 🙂
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 12:12:42
Oh she would have milked the situation… I’m sure!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 08:53:17
I love this series …. and being serially magpie superstitious, I understand Ken’s panic perfectly 🙂
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 12:10:31
I am a bit like that too!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 05:33:09
LOL no wonder my mom wouldn’t let me play with Barbie and Ken dolls when I was younger – too much drama!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 06:52:31
Oh the drama Janet!
This started with a simple comedic story a couple of months ago and has developed into a whole Barbie and Ken saga!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 01:54:51
Haha, henpecked…perfect Sister!!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 06:51:45
He totally is Brother!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 15:19:37
LOL, poor Ken 😀
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 00:47:08
Yeah. Ken and Barbie’s relationship, is nothing to crow about..
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 06:51:31
HA ha! ❤
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 00:18:02
Ben is really in trouble, until Nature knows it!
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 06:51:17
He is indeed Elizabeth!
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 23:31:09
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 23:07:02
Uh oh! Bad omen.
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 06:50:59
If only he knew his birds though Linda..!
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:55:20
Well as long as he doesn’t see three for a girl or four for a boy, I don’t think Essex could survive their offspring! 💜🌹
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 06:50:36
That is so true sis lol! ❤
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 08:30:34
Goodness knows what they would be like!🌹🌹
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 08:38:59
😀
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:51:23
Poor Ken. You know the Test Cricket series between Aust and England has just finished. The English supporters known as the balmy army come in significant numbers and think its a great thing to soak up the sun at the games. Many of them get sunburnt very badly, but they never learn that only madmen sunbake in our sun.
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 06:49:55
That is so typical of the English full stop! Any sign of sun and the shorts are on, tops are off, pasty skin on full view everywhere you look lol!
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:46:47
Very funny is Ken, made me chuckle. You really nailed the prompt but I think the picture is a Minah bird… he could mimic Barbie with ease.
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:50:32
He could Indeed Ellen! Hope you’re feeling well xxx
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:54:39
Better than i was Ritu, I look forward to being well enough to properly write again. Thank you for asking. X
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 06:50:21
You are always in my thoughts Ellen , ❤
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Jan 12, 2018 @ 10:16:42
Thank you.
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:41:16
Oh bless,the only way is … an all that
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:45:03
Indeed!
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:32:41
Barbie-pecked.
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:44:51
Totally!
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:24:26
Panic setting in there? Poor Ken… 😉
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:44:41
Just a little methinks!
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Jan 11, 2018 @ 22:49:26
shakes head
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