“Trying to look forward, but it is tough, sometimes when the past keeps calling your name.”
Ritu Bhathal
For Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday Challenge and #JusJoJan Day 12
One-Liner Wednesday & JusJoJan the 12th, 2022 – Forwards, Backwards
12 Jan 2022 13 Comments
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Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 11th, 2022 Cosmopolitan
11 Jan 2022 15 Comments
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It’s been a while since I took part in Linda’s JusJoJan month-long prompts, but, since I vowed to be creative, here goes!
Today is January 11th, so this is the 11th prompt for Just Jot it January 2022, and it’s brought to us by Willow. Thanks, Willow! Please be sure to visit her blog to read her post and say hello. And follow her while you’re there, if you’re not already.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 11th, 2022, is “cosmopolitan.” Use the word “cosmopolitan” any way you’d like. Enjoy!
When I think about Cosmopolitan, three things spring to mind.
- The Magazine
- The Drink
- Sex And The City
As a teenager, I thought myself every so grown up, and ‘with it’ when I bought the magazine, as a teen, not realising that there were more adverts than articles in there! Still, it was to get this glossy publication filled with fabulous photos, and some interesting (sometimes naughty)reading.
I’d never even really heard of the cocktail, until I began watching Sex and the City, and yet, it still took me many years to actually try one.
Even then, it was a ready-mix variety I have purchased from the supermarket. Quite yummy, and extremely potent, was this particular mix.
It got the thumbs up from my sister-in-law and me, anyway!
Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 10th, 2022 Chocolate
10 Jan 2022 35 Comments
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It’s been a while since I took part in Linda’s JusJoJan month-long prompts, but, since I vowed to be creative, here goes!
It’s January 10th, so this is the 10th prompt for Just Jot it January 2022, and it’s brought to us by Ritu. (That’s ME!) Thanks, Ritu! Please be sure to visit her blog to read her post and say hello. And follow her while you’re there, if you’re not already.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 10th, 2022, is “chocolate.” Use the word “chocolate” any way you’d like. Have fun!
Chocolate fills me with joy.
It also definitely decides to linger on my hips for far too long, nowadays.
I try to be healthy, buy more dark stuff, but there are times when only decent milk chocolate will do.
I love Cadbury’s Dairy Milk or Galaxy bars… The way they melt in the mouth, yum!
But my favourite of all has to be Maltesers. Yes, I know they are not pure chocolate, but that little piece of heaven; honeycomb wrapped lovingly in chocolate; my absolute favourite!
Don’t put a box of them anywhere near me, because;
- I don’t share Maltesers well
- They will not last long at all!
What is your favourite chocolate?
Chai And A Chat #168 #ChaiAndAChat
10 Jan 2022 37 Comments
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What a first full week of the year, eh!
Did you get a drink?
- If we were having chai I’d begin by telling you that I tried my hardest to enjoy my last day of the break on Monday, since it was a bank holiday. I did precisely nothing, other than read to be honest. I definitely needed it, as Sunday night, I barely slept. So at least on Monday night I was in bed early and I woke bright-eyed and bushy tailed, ready for the first day of term!
- If we were having chai I’d tell you that the start of school went relatively smoothly. Well, actually the whole week did, to be honest. Deep down, I had this dread that something was going to happen, and we’d be flung into the disarray of remote learing, but thankfully that didn’t happen, so we had a pretty normal week, all things considered. It was, honestly, lovely to be back with the children, and my team. There was a renewed sense of positivity, which I hope, lasts for a long time!
- If we were having chai I’d slip in a little something here, that a lot of you probably have already read about, but that publishing thing I’ve been hinting about these last few weeks? It’s all official, now! I have signed a contract with Spellbound Books. A three-book deal, which includes a rerelease of Marriage Unarranged, so the whole series will be under them. That’s right, it is a series! Officially called the Rishtay Series. Rishtay means relationships, and can encompass all types, from romantic to family to friends, and I explore a lot of different relationships through my writing. I officially signed on the Wednesday evening, and floated through Thursday and Friday!
- If we were having chai I’d say that on Friday evening, I arrived home to these lovely flowers, balloons, and cards from Hubby Dearest, one of my lovely work colleuages, and my favourite author, ever, Amanda Prowse! I was so touched, and I just keep going back to them, and smelling the gorgeous blooms!
- If we were having chai I’d mention that I have written a little bit, too, since I now have DEADLINES! Well, that’s a way to get things written, I suppose! But it has been fun. I have organised myself a bit, so fingers crossed I can do this!
- If we were having chai I’d share that we are now a fully vaccinated household, with Lil Princess receiving her second vaccination on Saturday. Obviously, she is milking the side effects as much as possible, but, at least we are all done. If the powers that be say they need boosters, we will arrange, but at least for now, we are all as protected as we can be.
- If we were having chai I’d tell you that I even managed to do some from scratch cooking, which I have done very little of, recently, relying on easy cook things that just need reheating… I know. Bad mummy! But I was rather proud of my chicken biriyani style dish. Lil Man was very happy with it, too, so it can’t have been all bad!
- If we were having chai I’d whisper ‘Guess who’s back at cricket, from this week?’ And the answer would be ‘Not Me!’ Lol! So, Lil Man had an opportunity to join some winter indoor nets, and obviously he was going to jump at the chance, but it is slap bang in the middle of Sunday afternoon, so Hubby Dearest took, him instead leaving me time to do whatever I wanted! YAY!
- If we were having chai I’d ask if any of you are on TikTok? I’m trying ot out, you know #BookTok and #authortok and all that… follow me if you are there. I am trying to make videos that entertain, a little, too! https://www.tiktok.com/@ritubhathalauthor Thank you in advance!
This week, I am hoping to continue my streak of writing on the blog in January, as well as a little more every few days added to the WIP. I don’t have anything major planned with school, or at home, so hopefully it will be a relatively smooth week!
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Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 9th, 2022 Unicorn
09 Jan 2022 29 Comments
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It’s been a while since I took part in Linda’s JusJoJan month-long prompts, but, since I vowed to be creative, here goes!
It’s January 9th, so this is the 9th prompt for Just Jot it January 2022, and it’s brought to us by Astrid. Thank you, Astrid! Please be sure to visit her blog to read her post and say hello. And follow her while you’re there if you’re not already.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 9th, 2022, is “unicorn.” Use the word “unicorn” any way you’d like. Enjoy!
I think my daughter just missed the whole unicorn mass hysteria, that the little girls out there seem to be experiencing, right now.
Mind you, she’s always been her own person, and even if others were crazy about something, she would decide not to be a follower It was the same with Frozen – she never got into that. Even at 6! And One Direction. Whist others in her class were singing their songs and being all cutesy about who they loved best, she was not interested. Instead, she did a performance of Why Does Every Princess Need To Have a Prince, with some friends at the end of the year talent show.
A real independent woman with a bit of a feminist thrown in there!
Anyway, I digress…
Unicorns. I have a couple of girls in my class, right now, with those hats that have long extended sides, that end with mitten like gloves, and they are designed like unicorns.
Another one joined the unicorn fray, well, so I thought until I questioned her lovely, light-grey unicorn hat.
“It’s not a unicorn, Mrs Bhathal. It’s a narwhal!”
She reminded me of my fiercely independent girl sitting at home.
We ended up doing a little google search to look at pictures of real narwhals, that afternoon.
Why not be a narwhal in a see of unicorns, eh!
