26 Dec 2017 19 Comments
in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #MicroPoetry, #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Haiku, Horror & Nightmare
Lovely Ron with his not particularly festive Haiku Challenge prompt words this week:
Pixabay Image
Dark eerie forest
A recipe for bad dreams –
Horror –film perfectRitu 2017
Pixabay Image
But I had to festive it up somehow!
A scene from nightmares
A tree stood with no presents
Beneath – What horror!Ritu 2017
25 Dec 2017 81 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Christmas
A quick festive post to wish you all a most wonderful, love filled day today!
Merry Christmas Peeps to you and yours!
May Santa have filled your stockings with the fulfilment of all the wishes you may have made this year!
24 Dec 2017 35 Comments
in Spidey's Serene Sundays, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Christmas, Quote, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sunday
“Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice
What a lovely thought Spidey!
Christmas every day!
It’s true though, isn’t it, we spread ‘peace on earth and goodwill to all men’ around the festive period, then it all disappears…
If we were to keep that thought as a constant, all year round, wouldn’t our world be a more wonderful place to live?
I’ll leave you with that, and get off to start some preparations for tomorrow’s dinner now!
Enjoy your Christmas Eve Sunday Peeps!!!!!
23 Dec 2017 30 Comments
in #SoCS, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, Socs, Yule/You'll/Yul
Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “yule/you’ll/Yul.” Start your post with one of them. Have fun!
Yule log.
Definitely a favourite pudding of mine during this festive period of Christmas!
Mind you, if there was a choice of stationing myself at the bar or the dessert station, you’ll find me near the sweet stuff, EVERY TIME!
I had a lovely yule log at my school staff Christmas party, accompanied by a mixed berry compote and ice CREAM – Yum!
We went to the shops today… the last Friday before Christmas, and it was manic, I’m sure I don’t have to tell you. The kids and I needed to venture into a food shop to pick up a few Christmas dinner essentials, like pigs in blankets, goose fat (best roast potatoes ever!) and dessert!
We ended up with a trifle, cheesecake and a profiterole tower… but no yule log! It appears my kids don’t share my love of a chocolatey swiss roll type thing!
Hmm… I’ll bet Yul Brynner likes yule log!
(sorry, just had to slip that extra Yul in too!)
And with that, I’ll be off to take a child to a pre-Christmas birthday party… and get ready for my folks to arrive!
Happy Saturday Peeps!
22 Dec 2017 42 Comments
in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #CarrotRanch, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Flash Fiction, funeral, White Flowers
Charli’s prompt this week:
After reading Charli’s post, I felt the need to write something with a little sensitivity…
Ghajra
Arranging the ghajra in her hair, Hari allowed his eyes to drift over her form.
Meena looked as beautiful as she had, years before, on their wedding day.
As tradition states, she was dressed as a bride, ready to leave the house for the final time.
Hari had always bought her a fresh ghajra on his morning walk, and gently placed the fragrant white jasmine flowers around her hair bun.
The gesture made her smile, and she’d tease him about being an old romantic.
So, even today, on that journey to her funeral pyre, she lay, adored and adorned.
https://carrotranch.com/2017/12/21/dec-21-flash-fiction-contest/
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