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#SoCS Oct. 21/17 – Season

21 Oct 2017 33 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, poem, season, Socs

Linda’s back with another great #SoCS prompt!

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “season.” Use the word “season,” add a suffix to it, or write about one. Bonus points if the first and last word of your post is a season or a seasoning. Extra bonus points if you have pictures. Enjoy!

I penned a poem for this!

Spring arrives
With a bright new beginning
Use basil or mint
Just stick a few leaves in

Summer blazes
What spices to put in?
Use ginger, cilantro
Or even cumin

Autumn brings evenings
Bathed early in gold
Use fennel or turmeric
To combat that cold

Winter creeps up on us
Colder than ever
Cinnamon, cardamom, cloves
Great together

Seasons come
Bringing flavours new
To spruce up your salad
Or your stew

And no matter what
The season or weather
Don’t ever forget
Your salt and your pepper!

Ritu 2017

Well, there you are! And the images are all from Pixabay!

SEVEN DAYS. SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS ~ DAY THREE

20 Oct 2017 16 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Photography, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Black And White Photo Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging

‘SEVEN DAYS. SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF YOUR LIFE.

NO PEOPLE. NO EXPLANATION. CHALLENGE SOMEONE NEW EACH DAY’

I am nominating my blog Bro, Rich.

Thank you very much, Bee, at The Bee Writes for nominating me on Wednesday.

We Made It! #AtEase

20 Oct 2017 63 Comments

by Ritu in Children, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Children, Half Term, Holidays, Relax, School

It’s Friday!

But not just any Friday…

For plenty of individuals, it is a Friday we have been crawling towards… the end of the existing term!

The kids are excited. It means a week (or two for some!) off and away from school! Yes there may be homework, but the pressure of getting up and going in is not there!

And us teachers…well, when I say we crawl, I mean it!

This first half term of the academic year is always tough. Settling in new pupils, getting to know them. setting boundaries and rules, assessing… it is a tough slog.

I know I personally have found this last term extremely exhausting, with my new responsibilities, and a lot more children to get to know. Names are never a problem for me, I have learned 70 new ones so far, and it looks likely that I need to learn another 30, if only for a short while, next term! But, the downside of having so many children to be responsible for, I don’t feel I really ‘know’ them yet.

Still, I have made it through this term, with no days of complete meltdowns, (well, not mine, some of the kids however have had a few!) and look forward to a few special days during my week off.

My only worry… when we come back from the break, all the progress we have made with our littlest ones will have been forgotten (believe me, it doesn’t take much for young children to forget what they were doing before!) and so the cycle will continue to roll, with us having to re-settle them, but hopefully only for a few days before they remember what Nursery and School is all about!

So, I am off to start my last day (for a week at least) and then enjoy a week of relative freedom!

Enjoy your Friday Peeps!!!!

SEVEN DAYS. SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS ~ DAY TWO

19 Oct 2017 35 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Photography, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Black And White Photo Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging

‘SEVEN DAYS. SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF YOUR LIFE.

NO PEOPLE. NO EXPLANATION. CHALLENGE SOMEONE NEW EACH DAY’

I am nominating my blog sis, Judy.

Thank you very much, Bee, at The Bee Writes for nominating me on Wednesday.

Spur – #writephoto

19 Oct 2017 46 Comments

by Ritu in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Humour, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Barbie and Ken, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Fifty Shades Of Stupid, Spur, Sue Vincent

Sue’s #WritePhoto prompt this week:

Looking at the contraption hanging from the wall, Barbie turned towards Ken.

“Babe, I know we watched Fifty Shades, and all that, last night, but there is no way that is going anywhere near my perfect surgically enhanced figure.”

Fearful of puncture and subsequent deflation, Barbie backed away from her ‘adventurous’ boyfriend.

“Huh?” Ken stared back, confused. “I don’t get it. That, Babe, that is my new fidget spinner! I got it cheap from the scrap metal yard. It looks pretty epic… but I just can’t get it to spin…”

#writephoto