07 Oct 2018 33 Comments
in #bloggers bash, Audio, Family, Spidey's Serene Sundays, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Anton Checkov, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Dreams, Imagination, Quote, Serene, Spidey
“If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” John Green, Paper Towns
Thanks, Spidey!
Think, dream, imagine.
Build your future, aiming for those dreams.
The above quote says it all.
If you don’t even dream it’s possible, how can you make it a reality?
Tell me your aims 😘
Have a peaceful Sunday Peeps ❤ And enjoy your week!
06 Oct 2018 36 Comments
in #SoCS, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Card, Socs
Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “card.” Use it any way you like. Enjoy!
I love card.
I have a ton of it at home, craft card in all colours, weights and patterns, squirrelled away for all those home art projects, I never do.
It’s stored safely with the myriad pens, pencils, cutters, stickers, tapes, glues, glitters, sequins, etc that I have also collected along the way.
I also love cards.
Greetings cards: birthday, anniversary, new baby, new home, congratulations, wedding, condolence, just because cards.
I love them so much that I joined a monthly card scheme where a variety of cards were posted to me, cards for all occasions, then I had to stop as I gained a huge collection, then forgot to use them, buying others instead, whenever I needed one!
And don’t forget playing cards!
As a family, we used to play a lot in the evenings when I was growing up. We played various games, and I remember my mum not wanting to as she had been brought up to believe playing cards was not an appropriate pass time for young ladies!
Oh, there are also your bank cards, membership cards, loyalty cards, the cards that mean my wallet won’t do up, even there isn’t really any money in it!
Who doesn’t love a card!
Catch ya later Peeps! Happy Saturday!
https://lindaghill.com/2018/10/05/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-oct-6-18/
05 Oct 2018 80 Comments
in Children, My Writing, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Children Teens, Menopause, Poetry, Tweens
It’s a trying time in my household at the moment, filled with hormones and demands, mood swings and laughter. I can’t go into the details, but I can definitely pen a verse to get my own angst out!
Gone are the days when a parent
Simply battled with the Teens
These days we have a new breed
Calling themselves the Tweens!Now with the Teens, it’s expected
Hormones raging through
But the trouble with these Tweens
Dear God, I wish I knewIt’s like ten is the new thirteen
And thirteen’s just as bad
Parenting’s never easy
But I don’t like this Tweenage fad!I was prepared for seven years
Of total Teenage hell
But with these Tweens, they’ve added on
Another three years as well!They stomp around in stereo
And fight at the drop of a hat
You cannot have a conversation
It’s just all rude backchat!And if, perchance, things happen
To not go quite their way
You’ll get the silent treatment
Though they have so much to sayIt flows in images and messages
On Social Media sites
Selfies, emojis LOL’s
To put the world to rightsRight now I live in a timebomb
Of tween and teenage tricks
What on earth will happen when I
Add menopause to the mix?Ritu 2018
04 Oct 2018 32 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Blogging 101, Fiction, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Etheree, Faraway, Micro Poetry, Poetry
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
An etheree for you!
Far
Away
Yet close by
Across the deep
I call out to you
My voice travels, airborne
Crossing miles I cannot see
You hear me, knowing I am there
A reassurance for both of us
Our bodies apart but our hearts entwinedRitu 2018
https://scvincent.com/2018/10/04/thursday-photo-prompt-faraway-writephoto/
04 Oct 2018 27 Comments
in #LornasGinspiringPrompt, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Ginspired, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Julia Donaldson, Lorna's Ginspiring Prompt, Monkey Puzzle, Puzzle, Writing Prompt
I thought about Lorna and her scary cats puzzle, and it made me think of all the puzzles I have encountered in my lifetime, from the simple wooden 4 piece puzzles of childhood, to the much more complex 1000 piece world map we have sitting in a box, with a puzzle mat ready to do, but never have the time to actually complete it!
I don’t think though, that I have ever seen something as scary as those kittens! I do love a cat, but that – no thank you!
Puzzles can be the bane of my life at work. As an early years teacher we have to provide all opportunities for the children, and you would be amazed at how many don’t even have a puzzle of any sort at home. So, out come our huge collection!
We have the simple to the slightly more complex (12 pieces – wooo!) large and small, cardboard wooden, traditional and fit the shape to the cut out ones. Obviously they aren’t all out at the same time, but still, you can imagine how things get mixed up, and then there are the children who can’t play nicely, and rip pieces, or just hide them, posting them into unreachable (at the time) places!
They can be a nightmare!
But in reality, puzzles are so beneficial for the children, looking at matching colours, following a picture, special awareness, and patience!
Nowadays, everything is so immediate, that it is good for a child to learn how to stay at a task for longer than 30 seconds!
Now, the other thing that came to mind is one of my favourite children’s books, Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson of The Gruffalo fame!
Have you read it?
It is so cute! A story about a baby monkey who has lost his mummy and finds a butterfly to help him find her. The thing is, as butterflies don’t look like their caterpillar babies, the butterfly finds a host of other animals for the monkey, who gets increasingly irate!
The best thing is that the dialogue from the butterfly is actually written in the same rhythm as “Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say A Word” so whenever I read it to the kids, I sing those parts!
Oh I do love to read stories to kids!!
https://ginlemonade.com/2018/10/03/talking-to-strangers-about-penguins/
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