Grabbing the last few moments of sanity before the Christmas madness hits!!!
For Linda’s #1LinerWeds Challenge.
One-Liner Wednesday – #1LinerWeds – Pre-Christmas!
29 Nov 2017 35 Comments
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Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Tuesday – Plenty & Meander
28 Nov 2017 27 Comments
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It’s the last Tuesday of the month of November, so the last of Colleen’s Synonym challenges!
This week she left us with:
Plenty & Meander
I found this pretty tough, to be honest! Really wanted to use the actual words!!!
But here’s a haiku ( used artistic license to add a syllable to the last line (naughty me!)
Image from Pixabay
Gallivanting in
Forests strewn with fallen leaves
Cornucopia of joyRitu 2017
And a Senryu
Image from Pixabay
A plethora of
Choice will sometimes encourage
Those pure hearts to strayRitu 2017
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #177 STRONG & HEART
28 Nov 2017 22 Comments
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Lovely Ron’s prompt this week:
Strong & Heart
My haiku this week!
Image from Pixabay
Old oak so strong with
Branches to house and protect
Heart of the forestRitu 2017
And a Senryu (ish!)
Image from Pixabay
Look over the edge
Only the strong-willed succeed
My heart in my mouth!Ritu 2017
Winner of Flash Fiction Contest #4
28 Nov 2017 8 Comments
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The winners for the fourth Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Rodeo contest are announced!
Well, How The Flibbertygibbets Did That Happen?! #MondayBlogs
27 Nov 2017 75 Comments
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I am seriously in a state of shock this morning!
Is it really the last Monday of November?
Meaning that the next one is in DECEMBER?
Which means Christmas is kinda just around the corner?
And I have hardly anything ready for that day???
AND…
We only have one month left of the year?!?
Three and a half weeks left of school, so there will be a lot of squeezing Christmassy things in, alongside the usual learning. One week is practically blocked out for Christmas performances – There are four different ones, and each has two slots. The half week at the end is filled with panto visits and class Christmas parties!
So, that’s just TWO weeks of real learning time left, within which I also have a formal observation to fit in, AND I have to, along with my Eco Council partner, arrange a Toy Swap sale for the kids, AND not forgetting another Governors meeting to finish the term off!
EEK!!!!
And while I’m on the subject, of How the Flibbertygibbets Did That Happen?… Since when did my nine-year-old decide she no longer believes in Father Christmas?!
I hoped to have at least one more year of the letters to Santa, and the PNP videos to show her, before the reality that Father Christmas is really mummy and daddy sinks in!
Instead, the last couple of months have been littered with ‘present opportunities’ where she has shown us what she wants us to buy her for Christmas, because she just, you know, knows it’s us who buys the stuff, not the Big Fat Fella in Red!
I am not ready for this!
I still kinda believe in the magic of Saint Nick!
Okay… let me get my shocked-self ready for school now, but really….
HOW THE FLIBBERTYGIBBETS DID THAT HAPPEN?????
