RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Tanka #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #188 Quick & Slip

Initially, we planned to spend the week with my parents… I could spend time with them and relax, recharge batteries… then all sorts of other plans and prebooked events cropped up!

So no long drive, and instead, the week would consist of me ferrying kids to places, but there would be plenty of writing time to… maybe that WIP would become a completed first draft!

But no… things aren’t ever that simple, are they?!

The trip back home was long overdue, so Hubby Dearest said I should fit it in, even if only a couple of days… meaning that we are apart for Valentines this year…😪 But then, isn’t it really just a commercialised day, when, in fact, we can celebrate our love every day? And it’s worth the sacrifice to spend time with my Pops and Mum.

So, instead, the week has so far consisted of, and will continue with…

Birthday dinners
Bit of pampering (Nails, etc)
Friend’s birthday party (and some alone shopping time for me!)
A day in (today), as my car is out for service and MOT (another expense that wasn’t needed in February, with all the family birthdays too!)
Taxi service for indoor cricket training (Lil Man)
Charity shop visits to find some bits and bobs for Nursery
A sleepover for Lil Princess
Driving home for 2 days
A mega birthday for Lil Princess who will turn to double digits soon!
A single Sunday free from any planned activities before the school term starts again on Monday!

PHEW!

See!

No… where is the writing time in all that???? And I need to catch up on sleep too!!!

It’s Monday, and 9.30am as I type this.

I’ve been up since 6am, getting the car ready for pick up so it can be serviced, tidying up the kitchen, doing laundry, seeing off my working Hubby, occupying kids, paying megabucks for the car (whoever wanted a Mercedes? Dang expensive cars!), reading blogs… I feel like I’ve already done a day’s work!

Can I go back to bed?

Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 156

11 Feb 2018 43 Comments

by Ritu in Spidey's Serene Sundays, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Mindfulness, Positivity, Quote, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sunday, Strength of Mind, Weather That Storm

“When it rains, look for rainbows, when it’s dark, look for stars.” – Anon

Spectacular quote Spidey, and something I strive to share with you all every week!

It’s another form of that old adage – every cloud has a silver lining.

We are all going to be blessed with good times, and ‘cursed’ with the bad.

But in every situation, there is a positive.

It may be so hard to find, but if you look deep enough, it will shine for you, and you will realise it’s not a negative.

Find your rainbow, locate that star, and hold on to it Peeps, it’ll lead you to better days!

Happy Sunday Peeps!

#SoCS Feb 10/18 – Tail/Tale

10 Feb 2018 28 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Chickens, Dog, February, Fox, Linda G Hill, Socs, Tail/Tale

Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “tail/tale.” Use one, used them both, you decide. Enjoy!

Let me tell you a tale about a fox
A cunning fox who wore fetching socks
This dapper mammal would use his charms
To ‘fox’ even the most capable alarms
He’d work his way through chickens galore
Sneak off, then hear the farmers roar
They’d know the fox who’d tricked them so
He’d leave a sock wherever he did go
But catch him? No, they never could
Until one farm dog swore he would
He sat and hatched a daring plan
Never tried before, by dog, or man
A trap was laid, the dog stood watch
Praying his plan just wouldn’t botch
And, as luck would have it, succeed, he did
Of that cunning fox, they were finally rid!
All that was left, causing Fox to wail
Was a cut-off, furry foxy tail.

Ritu 2018

Catch ya later Peeps!

Happy Saturday Peeps!

February 8 – Flash Fiction – Fireweed

09 Feb 2018 33 Comments

by Ritu in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #CarrotRanch, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Fireweed, Flash Fiction, London, World War 2

Charli’s prompt this week:

February 8, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes fireweed. You can use it as the plant, a flower, a metaphor or as the name of someone or something. Go where the prompt leads. Burn bright when you write.

“It’s hard to believe the carnage that happened here a short while ago.” Olivia looked around at the bombsite where once her home had stood.
Across the whole area, pretty purple flowers grew, giving the destroyed street a hazy filter.
“That rosebay willowherb has just taken over. It’ll take an age to clear it up too, before we can even think of rebuilding…” Janet sighed.
“Fireweed… that’s what they call that, across the Atlantic, where I’m from.” Chuck, the GI who had befriended them at the dance the night previously, said. “It sure loves a bit of burned ground!”

I’m not great at researching pieces, often just going where my mind takes me with prompts, but with this one, I had to do a little reading first, as I didn’t know much about fireweed, and other than cracking a joke about fire and wee… my imagination was coming up with nothing! Apparently, fireweed was rife where the bombs had razed parts of London to the ground, during World War 2.

https://carrotranch.com/2018/02/08/february-8-flash-fiction-challenge/