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FFF #17 – Skinny Love

02 Sep 2015 22 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, Flash Fiction Foray, skinny love, Thinspiration

Tuesday heralds the event hosted by Matt The Book Blogger. A song as a prompt, and a 100 word maximum Flash Fiction piece! I love thus!
Read more here!

This week the song Skinny Love by various artists…
I must admit I’d never really known this song before… Haunting…

And my effort today…

Thinspiration

“C’mon Love, eat up!” Da placed a plate filled with his famous roast lamb, and all the trimmings. You know, succulent lamb with mint sauce, golden roast potatoes, 3 vegetables, Yorkshire pudding, gravy. It smelled divine. I just want to grab my cutlery and eat it all up. But the voices from the web…”Really? Will he even look at you if you are fat?” “You want those carbs…really?” “Think thin!”

Da was looking over at me, concern brimming from his eyes. “Please love, have some, it’s your favourite.” He placed his hand on mine. “You’re looking far too skinny, love.”

Just a little thought harking back to those thinspiration sites that have been clogging up the web, and the effects they are having on these young girls, and boys.

Hope you enjoyed!

Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge #60 – Bridge & Move

31 Aug 2015 29 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge

Oh yes, it is Monday, which can only mean Ronovan’s Haiku Challenge time!

FFF #16 Happy

26 Aug 2015 23 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, Flash Fiction, Happy

Flash fiction time!
Check out the challenge by Matt The Book Blogger here!
Its Happy by Pharrell Williams this time!
Gay (Happy)
The ice melted in his glass as he slowly rotated it. It was bad enough that he was here, in the same room as her, but on top of that, he’d walked into the bar, and there they were, celebrating. She’d seen him and called out to him, “Come on over Jim!” He’d thought about ignoring her but too many of the others had sent him and that would just be too rude.
So, here he was, pretending to be happy, watching the woman he loved, celebrate her engagement, to a woman.
Why could he never read the signals right?

Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge #59 – Bird & Red

24 Aug 2015 22 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Haiku, Ronovan's Weekly Challenge

Yup yup its Haiku time!!

This week Ron gave us the prompts Bird & Red. For more information, click here.

Sesame Street Silliness

The puppeteers hand
Was up where it shouldn’t be
It turned big bird red!

3 Quote Challenge – Day 3

24 Aug 2015 20 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challege, kids, Quote

Neha at Dream Little Big has challenged me for the 3 day quote challenge.

The rules

Post a quote a day, for three consecutive days

Pass the challenge on to three new bloggers each day.

So this time my theme was quotes from kids, those little pearls of wisdom, that children unknowingly share with us!

And the last day’s effort…

Image source a set of stamps from this company

So cute! And you know what, this rings so true. It’s how I feel about so many people, but I know I’d look strange if I was a person with 10 thumbs, to start with!

But that is the blind devotion of children. Even if you are making mistakes, they are still there, picking you up along the way, and not even realising it.

I know there are days when I am tired from work, exhausted, in fact, and I end up taking it out on my nearest and dearest, then I realise what I’m doing, and it brings tears to my eyes. My extremely sensitive and highly intuitive 10 year old, Lil Man, will come to me and say “it doesn’t matter mummy, you are still the best mummy in the world!” and Lil Princess will give me a hug.

That, right there, is like them putting 10 thumbs up for me. I’m sure you with children must have days like that too, and those little actions of the kids, make things so much better!

And my final 3 challenges go out to…

Doted On

JazzMelia

The Wacky World Of River Hayden

Hope you enjoyed my little foray into Kids Quotes!

Stay safe, and Happy Monday Peeps!