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FIVE DAY SONG CHALLENGE – The FOOD Edition! – Day 2 – Food Glorious Food – Oliver!

20 Apr 2017 16 Comments

by Ritu in Audio, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Five Day Song Challenge, Food Glorious Food!, Oliver!

Erika, my blog Sis was so lovely to nominate me for this great music challenge, which I had only finished the other day! Thank you very much, Sis!!!

The rules:
Post what the lyrics mean to you. (Optional)
Post the name of the song and video.
Nominate 1 or 2 bloggers each day of the challenge.

This time I have decided to go with a food theme, as I have been struggling with eating rather too much!

Today, a song from the musical Oliver! – Food Glorious Food – because hey, we all love food!!

I pass this challenge on to anyone who wishes to spread some wonderful music out there into the blogosphere!

WRITESPIRATION #112 52 WEEKS IN 52 WORDS WEEK 16 – Backwards -sdrawkcaB!

19 Apr 2017 31 Comments

by Ritu in #Writespiration, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, 52 Word Challenge, Backwards, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Sacha Black

Oh Sacha, you evil task master!!!! What have you got us doing this week??

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.
Backwards.
BUT, in addition to that, I want you to write your story backwards…!

Seriously??!!

Ok, so I wasn’t sure, word for word backwards? Sentences backwards? Reflected backwards???

Here’s what I came up with, in several forms! And all 52 words!!!!!

Backwards sentences…

The discussion about changing her surname was always going to happen, but there was no way she was going from Portia Peters to bloody Portia Carr!!!!!
The marriage proposal came soon after.
It had been a few years since they started dating.
Tim stared back sullenly.
“Jeez! You’re so backwards!” Portia huffed.

Word for word backwards…

!!!!!Carr Portia bloody to Peters Portia from going was she way no was there but ,happen to going always was surname her changing about discussion The.
.after soon came proposal marriage The
.dating started they since years few a been had It
.sullenly back stared Tim
.huffed Portia “!backwards so You’re !Jeez”

Reflected…

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And in case that made no sense whatsoever… The original!

“Jeez! You’re so backwards!” Portia huffed.
Tim stared back sullenly.
It had been a few years since they started dating.
The marriage proposal came soon after.
The discussion about changing her surname was always going to happen, but there was no way she was going from Portia Peters to bloody Portia Carr!!!!!

OMG Sasha, that was tough!!!

FIVE DAY SONG CHALLENGE – The FOOD Edition! – Day 1 – Eat It – Weird Al Yankovic

19 Apr 2017 27 Comments

by Ritu in Audio, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Eat it!, Five Day Song Challenge, Weird Al Yankovic

Erika, my blog Sis was so lovely to nominate me for this great music challenge, which I had only finished the other day! Thank you very much, Sis!!!

The rules:
Post what the lyrics mean to you. (Optional)
Post the name of the song and video.
Nominate 1 or 2 bloggers each day of the challenge.

This time I have decided to go with a food theme, as I have been struggling with eating rather too much!

First up is Weird Al Yankovic with Eat It! I appear to have been doing far too much of that eating!!!!

I pass this challenge on to anyone who wishes to spread some wonderful music out there into the blogosphere!

‘New World Coming’-FFF 38

18 Apr 2017 16 Comments

by Ritu in #flashfictionforay, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #flashfictionforay, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, New World Coming, Parenthood, the book blogger, Wordpress

Matt’s Flash Fiction Foray Challenge this week…

Neon Music Sign

This week’s edition will be on (drumroll please)… Benjamin Wallfisch & Disa’s New World Coming, as suggested by Julie. Feel free to base responses of anything to do with the song, I always enjoy any different takes! If you want to read previous challenges and responses, click here.

You are to write a flash fiction piece of 100 words, but if you go a little over, Matt doesn’t mind!

“People always thought I was the boring one, incapable of doing anything interesting. But I’m about to change that. There’s a new world coming,” Jane murmured, “a new way of thinking, a new set of rules to play by. Life is going to be totally different.”

She was going to take on a whole new role in this unknown world.

What adventures lay ahead?

Slowly she looked down, and smoothed her hand over her expanding stomach.

“And it’s all because of you, little one, the new voice soon to enter into my world, and turn it upside down.”

And as a little aside, I reviewed both the Books and Movie here!

Easter/Spring Break is over…

18 Apr 2017 53 Comments

by Ritu in Health, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Back In The Saddle, Back to school, Back to work, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Eating

That’s it.

Today’s the day that I stop my double eating, and get back into the routines that I am used to!

I’m ashamed to say I haven’t stopped eating naughtily since my last shout out about eating double last week!

Easter for some reason is the hardest holiday for me to be good! At Christmas, I indulged but managed to keep some control.

But for some reason, these two weeks I just lose my grip and, well, eat!

Every day was started with good intentions. Each breakfast has been healthy (apart from the croissants when I was back home with my parents!). Some lunches were ‘on plan’, but the snacking and the dinners…

I didn’t open the Easter eggs until Easter Sunday but there were all these other excuses to eat previously forbidden or limited food… takeaways, scones, hot cross buns, crisps, biscuits, chocolates… Oh man!

And I have to be honest. I am feeling it. Feeling the bloat, and lethargy associated with unhealthy eating.

So today, I have packed my lunch and fruit snacks, will eat a good breakfast this morning, and make sure my dinner is sensible, and try and ensure that again every day.

Wish me luck getting back into the saddle Peeps!