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#JusJoJan Daily Prompt – Jan. 9th/18 – Power

09 Jan 2017 23 Comments

by Ritu in #jusjojan, Challenges, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #jusjojan, 20/20 Hines Sight, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Linda G Hill, Power

Day 9 of Linda’s #JusJoJan writing challenge, hosted by Dan of No Facilities again today!

The Just Jot It January 9th prompt, brought to you by Erica over at 20/20 hines sight is: “Power.” Use it any way you like. Make sure you stop by Erica’s website and say hello to her! https://2020hines-sight.com/

Power

What about superpowers?

Have you ever wanted to be a superhero or at least desired to have a superpower?

There are so many superhero characters nowadays, we are bombarded with films, magazines, books, TV shows showcasing these supernatural folk and their amazing powers. From walking up walls to flying, freezing things to burning them.

All very showy, and ‘Wow!’

But how helpful are these superpowers in real life?

I think if I was blessed with a superpower, I would want it to be that I was able to instantly lessen a person’s stress load, radiate positivity into their lives, and leave them with a smile.

I wouldn’t zap them with a laser stare, or shoot some positive rays from my hands.

It would be with a hug, pure and simple!

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#JusJoJan Daily Prompt – Jan. 8th/17 – Mongrel

08 Jan 2017 25 Comments

by Ritu in #jusjojan, Challenges, Poems, Sonu Singh, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #jusjojan, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Geoff Le Pard, Haiku, Linda G Hill, Mongrel, Sonu Singh, tanka

Day 8 of Linda’s #JusJoJan challenge! Today hosted by Dan of the blog No Facilities. Find him here!

The Just Jot It January 8th prompt, brought to you by Geoff of TanGentle is: “Mongrel.” Use it any way you like. Make sure you stop by Geoff’s website and say hello to him!. Here’s the link: https://geofflepard.com/

First a Haiku about the word…

‘To mingle among’
Middle English origin
Of Geoff’s word ‘Mongrel‘

Then a Tanka…

‘Mongrel‘ animals,
Offensive or just a word?
I don’t really know…
Is Sonu a mongrel cat?
Maybe, but he is Purrrfect!

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#JusJoJan Daily Prompt / #SoCS – Jan. 7th/17 – Coat

07 Jan 2017 21 Comments

by Ritu in #jusjojan, Challenges, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #jusjojan, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, coat, Linda G Hill, Socs

Day 7 of #JusJoJan by Linda, and it is combined with the Stream of Consciousness Saturday challenge she runs.

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday and Just Jot It January is: “coat.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

Coats.

Can be the bane of my life at times!

At home, it is the battle I have with Lil Princess, to actually do hers up in the howling winds, or to actually hang it up on the real hook, and not the invisible one, which lands it on the floor! Sonu Singh doesn’t mind, though, it gives him a cosy bed to lay on!

And Lil Man, well my coat issue with him is that he is always chewing the top of the zip of whatever coat or top he wears! Oh, it’s such a frustrating habit!

At school, we get children with the same coats, and I cannot understand why parents can’t just write names on them so we can clear any mix-ups up quickly! You tend to get to know the coats of the children after a while, but it is inevitable that there will be that small selection of children who appear to have a different coat every day of the week, in which case anything you had remembered will not help in the slightest!

But I do love a good coat, warm and snuggly, especially in this cold weather! Wrapped up warm with a hat, scarf and gloves too!

#JusJoJan Daily Prompt – Jan. 6th/17 – Tangible / #writephoto – Gold / #writespiration 93 – “The Timer Started”

06 Jan 2017 48 Comments

by Ritu in #jusjojan, Challenges, My Writing, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #jusjojan, #WritePhoto, #Writespiration, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Gold, Linda G Hill, Prajakta, Rosemary Carlson, Sacha Black, Sue Vincent, Tangible, The timer Started

Day 6 of the #JusJoJan Challenge set by Linda G Hill, and hosted today by Rosemary Carlson.

Now for your prompt for January 6. It is brought to you by Prajakta at https://anarmchairperfectionist.wordpress.com/ Your prompt is: “Tangible.” Use it any way you like. Make sure you stop by Prajakta’s website and say hello to her!

I thought I’d be brave and combine it with two other challenges this week

#WritePhoto by Sue Vincent, for which the prompt is Gold, accompanied by the photo below.

And Sacha Black’s #Writespiration prompt.

So without further ado, the first writespiration of 2017, 52 words exactly and you need to include the phrase…

The timer started

So, here goes…!

The timer started.

She looked ahead.

A clear path.

She looked back

No one near.

Then she began.

Ran like lightning.

The goal tangible.

This was it.

Gold was hers.

A car driving past woke her from her daydream.

Looking up, all she saw was the country road stretched out in front…

Tangible used – ✔

Gold used – ✔

52 words used – ✔

#JusJoJan Daily Prompt – Jan. 5th/17 – Spangly

05 Jan 2017 37 Comments

by Ritu in #jusjojan, Challenges, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #jusjojan, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Judy Martin, Linda G Hill, Spangly

Day 5 of Linda’s #JusJoJan challenge, and this time it’s hosted by Rosemary Carlson. Go check out her blog too, by clicking here!

Now for your prompt for January 5. It is brought to you by Judy of http://www.edwinasepisodes.com/. Your prompt is: “Spangly.” Use it any way you like. Make sure you stop by Judy’s website and say hello to her!

My in-laws came back from India last month, and as usual, they came with a selection of gifts, which usually include some sort of outfits. I have a cupboard groaning with clothes, as MIL tends to get a little overexcited when it comes to getting me clothes, even though she knows I hardly get a chance to wear these beautiful outfits!

The same goes for Lil Princess, but the worst thing is that she is a child, so she grows fast, and there a huge amount of gorgeous clothes she doesn’t even get to wear, and they are left to languish in the wardrobe, getting smaller and smaller

This time, I managed to convince MIL to only get me one thing, as we have a family wedding in February, and she bought just two outfits for Lil Princess.

It can be touch and go as to whether they are outfits to my liking, as I tend to wear more understated things, and sometimes MIL can find the most blingy things lovely! Hey, I am not averse to spangly outfits, they can look great on others. It’s just not quite my thing!

Below is the outfit she chose for me. It’s in a purple and biscuit colour, with gold thread work, and a few shiny stones thrown in too. Not bad, eh!

So here is a little haiku dedicated to my spangly new outfit!