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FIVE DAY SONG CHALLENGE – The FOOD Edition! – Day 3 – Don McLean – American Pie

21 Apr 2017 27 Comments

by Ritu in Audio, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: American Pie, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Don McLean, Five Day Song Challenge

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 Don McLean – American Pie… because who doesn’t like PIE!!!

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

Shore #writephoto

20 Apr 2017 32 Comments

by Ritu in #WritePhoto, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Humour, Shore, Sue Vincent

Sue’s prompt this week for #writephoto.

“I’m sure that was the way they told me to go!” Dozy Derek scratched his head. Looking around he realised he had near enough sculpted a new shoreline for the town!

“They told me to clear the pathway for the big guns, so they could lay the road to the new HQ.” He sat there puzzling at the set of directions, and the map that he had been handed.

Slowly, as if a small spark had ignited in his brain, the fog within cleared. he turned the map around.

“No one told me it was this way up! Now, how do I go about rescuing my bulldozer from the sea…?”

#writephoto

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??

writespiration-2017

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!!!