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Hugh’s Photo Challenge: Week 5 – Pair

07 Nov 2015 33 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Eggs, Hugh's Photo Challenge, Pair, Photography

Another Saturday, another photographic challenge by the lovely Hugh of Hugh’s News and Views! He has started an Instagram based photo challenge, whereby you are given a prompt and you post a photo illustrating that prompt, however you see fit.

The prompt today: Pair

Check out the challenge here.

And so to my photo…

Imagine my happiness at seeing that prompt, when I had the perfect photo on my phone!

The other week, I cracked an egg to make eggy bread, as you do, and there they were, that pair of yolks! I always love finding the double-yolked eggs, it just makes that dish a little more… special… do you know what I mean? And I just had to take a photo!!

And it was a total coincidence that you have used eggs as well Hugh!!!

Sunny yellow yolks

What a magnificent pair!

They’ll look good on toast!

Throwback Thursday

05 Nov 2015 51 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #TBT, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, bonfire night, throwback Thursday, weather, windy

Don’t you just love Timehop? It’s a great app that allows you to link several platforms, whether social media, your storage clouds or computer, together, and it shows you what you did on this day, over the last few years! It pops up and reminds you of days gone by. I love seeing the photos of my kids!

The other day this one came up, and it was actually from last year.

The weather was a tad windy!!!! As you can see from the interesting placement of the trampoline, and our swing seat!

Today it is a little windy, a lot wet, but thank heavens, no runaway garden furniture!

Have a great Bonfire Night, those attempting fireworks! We’re content to sit inside out warm home, and listen to those souls brave enough to venture out into the wet and wild weather here in Kent, and let off a few bangers!

FFF #18 – One Day More

04 Nov 2015 21 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: 100 words, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, Flash Fiction, les miserables, one more day, thebookblogger

The Book Blogger, Matt’s prompt this week from Les Miserables…. ‘One Day More’…. Check out the challenge here!

“Are you ready?”
Mona looked up at Lisa, eyes full of apprehension. “I don’t know Lees… It’s all happened so fast. Am I really ready?”
It had only been a few short weeks since she made the decision to go to the police with the true story of what had happened that night.
And now here she was, a sack of nerves, knowing she was going to have to stand in front of a court full of people, and tell a bunch of strangers her story…
Still, at least he’d get what he deserved…

Just one day more to wait

Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge #69 – Haiku & Mind

02 Nov 2015 29 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge

Monday Haiku Challenge Time Peeps!

Ronovan has given us interesting words to work with this week.. as he does every week..Haiku & Mind.

Read the challenge here.

And so, here are my attempts!

Haiku Form

When writing haiku

Formation matters

Five, seven, five, mind!

Haiku Tax

With so few words

Haiku sure taxes the mind

Telling a story…

Haiku Class

Fitness for the mind

Spinning words around your brain

Creating haiku

Ritu 2015

Hugh’s Photo Challenge #4 – Isolated

01 Nov 2015 16 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Hugh's Photo Challenge, instagram, isolated

I thunk and I thunk… It’s actually easier to write, using one word inspiration, for me, than to think of something to photograph…

The word… Isolated… Thanks Hugh!

But then I remembered a photo I took, a few months back, on a family walk out at the prom. There is a lovely park on the bank of the Thames here in Gravesend, and in the spring and summer, it is a pleasant place to stroll with the family.

Lil Man takes every opportunity to get out there and kick a ball about so that day was no different… Except there is always that danger of losing your ball when playing close to water…

And lose it he did! His brand new bright orange ball… Bobbing away across the Thames, possibly in the hands of a little Essex boy now…

Though Lil Princess was convinced it would float out, into the open seas, cross oceans, and land in India, where my in laws were at the time. And that they would bring it back, obviously!
So here is my take on Isolated…