Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “antic.” Use it as a word or find a word that contains it. Bonus points if you do both. Enjoy!
The other day my daughter and I went for a little walk, and we saw something on the road – it was an, ahem, used condom, just lying there on the tarmac.
I said to Lil Princess, “That’s a bit disgusting, isn’t it?”
She replied, “Are you sure it’s not one of yours and Dad’s?” (The bare-faced cheek of teens, nowadays, openly discussing parent’s bedtime antics so brazenly!)
There was a time I would be frantically thinking of a suitable response, but not now.
“Nope!” That was my reply!
I have to be honest with you… at this stage in my life, I barely have the energy to turn over in bed, once lying down… There is little energy left for cheeky shenanigans!
Our romantic side is shown in different ways, instead!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “the last thing you emptied.” Think of the last thing you emptied or something you empty often and use it as your prompt any way you like. Have fun!
Right now, the last thing I emptied was my wallet…
Lil Man decided to leave a school trip acceptance until the last minute, leaving Hubby Dearest and me scrambling for the cash to pay for the trip!
Don’t you just love kids…
(Thank goodness payday was today, too, otherwise, my bank account would have been emptied too!)
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “mat/met/mitt/mot/mutt.” Choose one or use them all, any way you’d like in your post. Have fun!
I pulled my mitts on tight as the cold wind blew, on my way to pick up the car after its MOT, where I met a mutt with matted fur.
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “wild animal.” Choose a wild animal (or many wild animals) and use it any way you’d like in your post. Enjoy!
This term in school, we are focusing on animals as a topic. Pets, Jungle Animals, Unusual Animals, Mythical Animals, Animal Mums and Babies, Winged Creatures.
The kids absolutely love it. Most have never been to a country where they can see these animals in the wild.
The wildest of wild animals that they see would be the foxes and squirrels in the gardens and parks.
Some may have been to a zoo, but although it is great fun for the kids, zoos aren’t my kind of place.
I hate the way these majestic creatures are in enclosures that are often too small for them, and despite attempts to recreate their natural habitat, they seem sad…
Here in Kent, we have the Aspinall Foundation, where there are two huge safari parks, Howlett’s and Port Lympne, where the animals who live there have many acres to roam. They are usually there to help them before being taken back to their unnatural habitats and reintroduced to living as true wild animals.
I’ve been to the smaller of the two a couple of times, and have seen elephants, rhinos, tigers and beautiful gorillas alongside other smaller species that may be endangered.
Though I feel honoured to have seen them up close, I still feel that sadness in them.
It’s a far cry from sitting in the car in Kenya, on the way from one town to another, driving through the Rift Valley, and seeing the herds of wildebeast and gazelle roaming free or sitting in the turrets. of the Gurduwarea Makindu, and watching a family of giraffes wandering around or staying in the Lake Baringo camp, surrounded by waters where crocodiles and hippos live. (Let me tell you, hippos are rather noisy at night!) Or visiting Lake Victoria and Lake Bogoria and marvelling at the pink shorelines, which are flocks of flamingoes in reality.
It’s been over 20 years since I was able to see these sights with my own eyes… Maybe one day I can take my own little family, and share these marvels with them, too.
But I Smile Anyway... 