31 Jul 2017 31 Comments
in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Enjoy & Party, Haiku, Haiku Challenge
Lovely Ron’s Prompt this week:
Image from Pixabay
A party for one
Enjoying my solitude
Balancing my soulRitu 2017
Image from Pixabay
Life is a party
It’s up to us to decide,
To enjoy or notRitu 2017
Enjoyed that party
Food and drink, music on tap
At others expense!Ritu 2017
29 Jul 2017 32 Comments
in #tjshouseholdhaikuchallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Leaning tower of Piza, Look & Leaf, tanka
TJ’s prompts today
And/or the photo
Off to an engagement in an hour so I can’t go mad with my haiku, but here is one, using the words.
The way I see it
We are all from the same tree
Each of us a leafRitu 2017
And a Tanka from the photo!
Standing quietly
A leaf of paper floats down
I look up, he smiles
Love letters sent from above
Italian romance startsRitu 2017
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29 Jul 2017 35 Comments
in #SoCS, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, cricket, hair removal, injury, Limb, Linda G Hill, Sealing/Ceiling, Socs, Stream Of Consciousness Saturday
Linda’s #SoCS prompt this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “limb.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
Funny, this should be the prompt that Linda decided on for this week!
The other day, Lil Man, being cricket obsessed, has been begging anyone to go and play int he garden with him, to practice his batting and bowling skills.
Being rather tired still, I have avoided it at all costs (that and the fact I am NOT SPORTY AT ALL!) but this time, after a whole day of him whining, I decided to help him out, nice mummy that I am!
So there I was, at the wicket, wielding my bat, and I did pretty good, even if I do say so myself. Despite having a bat at least six inches too short, he didn’t get me out… but I did manage to sustain a few hits to my limbs! (See, got it in there!) My thigh, one knee and the other shin got whacked by stray balls.
Still, standing strong, I managed to stay in, until we had to run in from rogue showers!
The next day, after a particularly successful trip to the hairdressers with Lil Princess, she wanted braids, I decided I needed to embark upon some epic hair removal. The kids are threatening to cause havoc if I don’t take them swimming, so I had to get prepared.
Got me a new bikini waxing set, and then set about epilating the nether regions, as well as my lower limbs, when I noticed a bruise on my shin.
Lovely! That’ll look great at the party we are attending tonight! At least the sari will cover it! And there’s no hair!
27 Jul 2017 51 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Ronnie Hilton, Sails, Sue Vincent, Windmill, Windmill in old Amsterdam
Sue’s #Writephoto prompt this week:
“I saw a mouse!”
“Where?”
“There on the stair!”
“Where on the stair?”
“Right there!”
“It didn’t by chance have clogs on, did it?”
“No! It was a bloody mouse, you wally!”
Pete smirked to himself. Jane was always such a drama queen, and he had to inject a little humour into their lonely existence.
Since buying the old windmill, and trying to restore it to its original glory, so they could then organise tours around an authentic working old school windmill, Pete and Jane had sunk into a hermit-like existence.
But it had been a tough time. There were no neighbours nearby. They had to drive at least half an hour to the nearest shops in the village, and they were a little too off the beaten track for their friends to visit. Even if they did, there was no guest room for them to stay over, so most people just stayed away.
Sure, they phoned or sent messages once in a while, but it wasn’t the same.
So, when she presented him with opportunities like this, he milked it for all it was worth!
The thing was, there was no one to share the joke with.
This was what happened when you married a young un…
Ronnie Hilton’s 1965 classic was lost on her!
26 Jul 2017 35 Comments
in #Writespiration, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, 52 Word Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Pi, Pie, Sacha Black
Sacha’s #Writespiration prompt this week is
I hate maths.
Why on earth would I need to know that the circumference of a circle divided by the diameter is always 3.1414 – also known as π (or pi)?
Let’s be honest… I’d much rather be learning about Pie not Pi… Lemon meringue… Apple… Or a nice shortcrust pastry chicken pie….
For Sacha Black’s #Writespiration Challenge!
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