23 Mar 2018 13 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #AnnualBloggersBash, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Testimonals
It’s testimonial time ! If you were still umm-ing and aaah-ing about whether you wanted to come then read the collection of thoughts about the previous bashes here!
It’s not one to miss (if you can get there!) I promise!
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23 Mar 2018 131 Comments
in Family, Humour, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Backpack Kid, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Dancing, Fatty McCupcakes, Floss, Flossing, Katy Perry, School Disco, Swish Swish
Right, let me start by saying I am not talking about dental floss – though as a retired dentist, I’m sure my Pops would be so proud if I was extolling the virtues of regular flossing and inter-dental brushing for the health of your teeth!
I’m talking about that new dance craze that the kids are all going mental over.
That move that seems a bit of an impossibility…
Yup, that one!
Katy Perry’s Swish Swish song has got the Floss kid going strong!
Now, I count myself as a pretty good dancer… I can try my feet at pretty much any move (not saying I can do them all!) and I’m pretty good at hip swivelling too.
But this one got me foxed…
Lil Princess has been ‘flossing’ (sorry again Pops, not the dental type again!) for a while now, and she makes it look so easy!
The other day fellow blogger and teacher, and all-round good sport, Fatty McCupcakes posted on her Facebook Bad Teachers Group about her class all being obsessed with this move, and how she basically did her back in trying to learn how to floss!
Well, last night we had our school disco – well, two discos – one for the younger lot and one for the older ones.
The first one was great, dancing to the Macarena and jumping around with 4-7-year-olds is just my thing!
The second one was cool too – I got to be there, embarrassing my daughter!
But the crowds of 7-11-year-olds flossing was getting me down! (Again – Pops, don’t get excited, there weren’t groups of children conscientiously clearing the gaps in their teeth collectively!) And one of the younger members of staff (she’s like 21, or something, a mere babe, and not much older than the kids!) was able to floss, so she showed me, as only a teacher can do… and I got it!
I was so excited! I flossed with the best of them! I couldn’t go at the speed of some of the kids, but hey, I got the move, got the idea, and was so pleased with myself!
Lil Princess was well impressed, rather than embarrassed, that her friends were coming up to her and saying “Your mum can FLOSS!!!”
She even challenged me to a Floss-Off when we got back home!
And you say you want proof? Here!
See! Told you I can do it!!
But I have to say, my back doesn’t half ache now!!!!!!!!
Still, it felt like a great workout, and I shall try and keep my flossing, both dental and dancing, up regularly!!!!
Have a fantastic flossing Friday Peeps!
22 Mar 2018 48 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Carved, poem, Positivity
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
Our future is carved
By the steps of our past
Each breath that we take
One closer to our last
Think deep about
All the things that you do
For the marks that you leave
Will reflect upon you
What gift will you give?
What joy will you spread?
What path will you leave
For the future to tread?Ritu 2018
https://scvincent.com/2018/03/22/thursday-photo-prompt-carved-writephoto/
21 Mar 2018 64 Comments
in Children, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Children, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Lil Man
I’ve mentioned the Lil Princess a few times with regards to creativity, be it singing, drawing or writing.
This time I have to report that Lil Man is now nearly up there with the published authors of our time!
His school sent some entries to a company here, who encourages and promotes young writers, and Lil Man’s flash fiction piece was one that was chosen! The compilation is called Stranger Sagas…
Here is his piece!
The Magic Pen
It started at my birthday and Grandpa came. I like Grandpa
coming on my birthday, he gives me presents which were his
when he was a boy. This year, Grandpa gave me a pen.
Grandpa handed me the pen.
He said, “Click this pen when you are in great trouble.”
By the way, my name is Billy. I’m twelve years old. Later, I
went to school. I had the pen that Grandpa gave me, just in
case I needed it. I clicked it. Click! Time froze. What do I do?
The Young Writers Association is a company which targets schools and encourages entries into various competitions for children of all ages.
They select ‘winners’ to go into books, and yes, it is a ploy to get proud parent’s to buy the books, but if it gets kids writing, I am all for it!
(Yes I have already ordered one copy – not going mad and ordering one for every member of the family!!!)
What did you think of his flash?
21 Mar 2018 38 Comments
in #1linerweds, #onelinerwednesday, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #1linerweds, #onelinerwednesday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Ill, Man Flu
“Man Flu? Good excuse for moaning, more like!” – Ritu
I’m sorry it’s a ‘one line’ with an explanation – again!
Some of you will have read about my feeling under the weather over the weekend. A horrible cold which hung on through the whole weekend, and is just about gone now, bar a few snotty tissues a day.
I dealt with it, as all working mums do, making sure I got rest interspersed with making sure certain duties were done too:
Oh, and I wrote a poem about it too! 😉
Back to work Monday, feeling much better than I had been and looking forward to a full night’s sleep… but that wasn’t due to happen…
No, it wasn’t kids this time, but Hubby Dearest!
From 2.30 am, his bunged up self moaned, and groaned, tossing and turning, getting up for a drink, switching lights on to find medication and tissues, moaned some more, threw his arm over me all sweaty – no thank you!) then finally settled into a snore-filled sleep…
Two hours of dealing with that, and I fell asleep briefly, before being rudely awoken by my alarm.
Now, some of us don’t have the luxury of a job where we can go in late/book a day off just because/work from home. No, teaching isn’t that kinda bag, so I had to drag myself in, hauling my own bags (of the under-eye variety) in with me to school. His Nibs, snoozed on as the kids and I got ready for school.
I managed to get through the day with my class, then had to tackle assessment and progress grids, as it’s that time of term, and by 5 pm I could feel the pressure of a migraine building up.
I excused myself and dosed up on painkillers and we wrapped up our work, then collected the kids and finally got home, after a trip to the shops for needed pet supplies.
I was laying in bed, early, trying to fight off the ache, when Hubby Dearest popped his head round the door. Now, kudos to him, despite his severe ailment, he had managed to get into work, moans and groans and all, and was back, still full of cold.
I sympathise, I do, been there, done that this weekend!
But when he said ” I’m ill…!” looking for sympathy… Hmm, I’m sorry, but at that point, I couldn’t help him!
“I spent all weekend suffering, and on no occasion did I moan you out of your sleep, disturbing the peace of the weekend! Thanks to your noise and lumbering around last night, I have one hell of a headache!”
“But I’m not well…”
“It’s a COLD, for goodness sake!”
But I knew, deep down, it wasn’t a cold… it was MAN FLU! And we are all gonna hear about it until the last sniffle subsides!
Seriously, blokes? I know I read about it somewhere, that you are affected worse by this strain of cold , sorry MAN FLU, and apparently really can’t handle it. You go into meltdown. Heaven forbid if you were to have to go through childbirth!
Maybe it’s just time to admit it. Men ARE the WEAKER sex!!!
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