Awesomeness!
With a mere two weeks to go until we all meet at the Bloggers Bash, his Geiffleship has been kind enough to give us tons of information on the actual day itself!
Whoop Whoop! Excitement fever!!!!

04 May 2018 4 Comments
in #bloggers bash, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #bloggers bash, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, The Nitty Gritty
Awesomeness!
With a mere two weeks to go until we all meet at the Bloggers Bash, his Geiffleship has been kind enough to give us tons of information on the actual day itself!
Whoop Whoop! Excitement fever!!!!

03 May 2018 42 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Ascent, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Cinquain, Memories
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:

Ascent
Journeying up
Rising, flying, soaring
Pushing oneself, achieving goals
UpliftRitu 2018

https://scvincent.com/2018/05/03/thursday-photo-prompt-ascent-writephoto/
03 May 2018 44 Comments
in #bloggers bash, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #AnnualBloggersBash, #bloggers bash, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Daddy Pig, Thankful
Okay, so I might not had shouted it from the rooftops (or did I?), but you may, or may not, know that I was nominated for Best Overall Blogger, at the Annual Bloggers Bash Awards this year.
Voting has now closed, so no amount of canvassing for support will change the outcome that is announced on May 19th at the Bash… Eeeeek!
(Did you get your ticket? Are you coming? Did you want to? Click here to get your tickets!)
But it was a lovely surprise to open a mail from Hugh on the Committee, with a shiny new badge to add to the widgets that run down the side of my blog!

That is firmly placed now, and I wanted to express my heartfelt thanks to those of you who nominated me in the first place and those of you who voted for bloggers that were up for the awards.
I’m not a winner yet, but that is not the point. Being nominated is the biggest blessing.
And even if I wasn’t up for an award, I would be there, because it is the most amazing event, getting to meet and mingle with blog pals of old, and new ones too!

In the immortal words of Daddy Pig, “It’s not the winning that matters, it’s the taking part that counts! Snort!” (Ooh okay, and Paul (Bear) Bryant!)
So, there it is, a thankful thought for this , what looks to be sunny Thursday morning!

Now to go practice that speech, and decide on cakes!!!!
01 May 2018 29 Comments
in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, #MicroPoetry, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Poetry, Sing & Celebrate, Synonyms, tanka
Colleen’s back with her synonym poetry challenge!
The words to (not) use are:


Pixabay Images
Birds gather in flocks
Loudly trilling a welcome
Waking one and all
Honouring the start of May
With a loud joyous chorusRitu 2018
01 May 2018 80 Comments
in Children, Family, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Dry Humping, Sex, Sex Education, Tidbit Tuesday, Tweenagers
You must have known this post was coming.
After announcing that we had, as parents, receivedΒ that letter, this post was inevitable.

Lil Princess has finally started her PSHE topic for this term, namely Sex Ed!
Of course, she knew all about it, apparently!
But it has sparked plenty of girl to girl chats between us.
She tells me they’ve had another embarrassing chat every time the subject is covered.
So, they’ve covered anatomy, inside and out. And that in itself has caused plenty of giggles.
She’s learned about what puberty means for both a girl and a boy, and is obsessed with working out what an Adam’s Apple is!
She’s desperately searching for changes in herself, almost wishing it to happen now!
But today was funny.
“Oh mummy, we had to watch a video today. Like, I saw how they make a baby! My teacher said it’s enjoyable! Ew!”
Er, what?
I’m not sure that should be part of the conversation!
A little later, she mentioned the video again. “So like they were just there, like, doing it. All of a sudden, they were dry humping-”

Wait, what? You are ten years old girl, what do you know about dry humping, or humping, in fact?
“I don’t know,” she said, “One of my friends whispered to me that that was what they were doing!”
So, do I correct her, and explain the difference between dry, and usual humping?
We had a little conversation…
Then she explained her teacher’s comment about enjoying ‘it’ too.
“Well mummy, he said that it had to be an enjoyable thing, otherwise the human race would be extinct!”

True dat.
“Anyway,” she continued, “I don’t know how he knows anyway, it’s not like he’s married yet or anything…”
Still a little innocent regarding pre-marital sex, and that is something I shan’t correct, just yet… She’s still my baby after all!