Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:

A Cinquain for today 🙂
Hilltop
Reaching higher
Daunting, climbing, thrilling
Destination – top of the world
Summit
Ritu 2018
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21 Jul 2018 25 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Summit
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:

A Cinquain for today 🙂
Hilltop
Reaching higher
Daunting, climbing, thrilling
Destination – top of the world
Summit
Ritu 2018

https://scvincent.com/2018/07/19/thursday-photo-prompt-summit-writephoto/
21 Jul 2018 36 Comments
in #SoCS, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Organ, poem, School, Socs, Teacher, tired
Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “organ.” Talk about an organ or base your post on the theme of them … or one. Have fun!
Organ grinder,
Won’t you stop
I feel that I’m
About to pop
The kids are tired,
The teachers too
So little time,
So much to do
A year’s gone by
We worked so hard
I’m so burned out
My body feels charred
Exhaustipated
From bottom to top
So Organ grinder, please…
Just stop!Ritu 2018
Penned this morning by a very tired teacher… two days to crawl through!

Catch ya later Peeps! Happy Saturday!
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17 Jul 2018 24 Comments
in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #MicroPoetry, #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Haiku, Woke & Up
Lovely Ron with his Haiku Challenge prompt words this week:

Pixabay Image
Branches reaching high
Unfurled in the summer sun
Soaking up the raysRitu 2018

16 Jul 2018 32 Comments
in #AmReading, Reviews, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #BookReview, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Eden, Sacha Black, Victor, YA Fiction
I’ve been reading plenty this year, but recently, events beyond my control meant that I was so tired, I couldn’t stay awake long enough to read more than a couple of pages of any book every night.

Now, usually, I can’t read in a moving car. Trains and planes are fine, but reading in a car gives me headaches and nausea.
This time, however, I tried to read, and, lo and behold, no headache or sickness!!! I managed to plough through a WHOLE book in the car on my way to see Pops!
And that book was none other than the sequel to Sacha Black’s Keepers, named Victor.
Read the review of book one here!
![Victor (The Eden East Novels Book 2) by [Black, Sacha]](https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KsYTmRxVL.jpg)
Here’s the info.
And here’s my review…
Star rating – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It’s been a while now since Keepers was published. I devoured that and was waiting eagerly for the next instalment, Victor.
And I can honestly say I was not disappointed at all.
The story picked up from the end of Keepers and within moments of opening the first page, I was right back in the action.
Beautifully written, with evocative language, Black kept me on the edge of my (car) seat the whole way through the book. I could feel the emotions and picture the scenes within my mind.
I loved the developing relationship between Eden, the protagonist, and her Balancer, Trey (who, might I say, is a hero of dreams!)
The constant reappearances of the should-be-dead Victor had me racing through the pages.
And the ending… Oh My!
Trutinor, what is going to happen?! (Don’t worry, no spoilers here, but WHAT AN ENDING!)
I am now going to be constantly checking for news of book three! Hurry up Sacha Black!
Reviewed on Amazon – Here and Goodreads – Here
Buy your copy here.
If you don’t know Sacha, why not?
She is blogging event organiser extraordinaire, being the birth mother of the Annual Bloggers Bash and Awards, and an author of four books, two fiction, and two non-fiction, with more due soon! And she is a loving wife and mother too, to top it off!

Find out more about Sacha and her books here.
I do love Sacha, she has been ace at giving me, ahem, gentle nudges when it came to getting that first draft finished too!

14 Jul 2018 39 Comments
in #SoCS, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blo-Jo, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Socs, Teaching, Three Words
Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “3-letter word.” Start your post with any 3-letter word. Bonus points if you end with one too. Enjoy!
Can you believe it’s almost the end of another academic year?
It’s flown by.
I’ve experienced the craziness of teaching in two classes every week, being a Governor, and heading the School Council.
I was certainly busy enough for it to feel like it just whizzed by.
But it definitely wasn’t easy.
Being in one class means you build a rapport with your children.
You really get to know them.
Being in two means you feel neither here nor there.
Yet you are still responsible for the progress they make.
Being a Governor gives you a real insight into the managing of a school, realising why decisions are made, which, as your average staff member, sometimes seem pointless.
Being the School Council lead means I am able help foster a sense of pride in the children about the school they attend. It has been fun, and I wish I had more time to actually do stuff with them!
There are still a few home visits to attend to for next year. There is a little preparation to do to enable us to be ready for the new intake.
Final reports and assemblies, old staff leaving and preparing to welcome the new.
But now, the year comes to a close.
Then this chapter comes to an end…

Catch ya later Peeps! Happy Saturday!
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