Pop over to Al’s Blog, where he asked me a Dirty Dozen questions…Rein your minds in folks!
Click ME to see the interview!
I haz been interviewed!
05 Jun 2016 20 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Al Lane, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Dirty Dozen, Interview
Spidey’s Serene Sundays – Part 68
05 Jun 2016 17 Comments
in Spidey's Serene Sundays Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Muhammad Ali, Quotes, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sunday
Remembering a legend today.
RIP Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.The man who has no imagination has no wings.It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
So many words of wisdom from a true legend, a man who changed the world of sport, and left an indelible mark on the world.
Watching all these interviews that are airing now, you feel the personality emanating from him. He was amazing.
RIP to a true legend. your legacy lives on…
Thursday photo prompt – Isolated… #writephoto
04 Jun 2016 16 Comments
in Challenges, Fiction Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Fiction, isolated, Sue Vincent
Sue gave us another great photo prompt this week!
Alongside the word Isolated, we have this photo to work with…
A dark silhouette of a building came into view.
“Perfect setting, isn’t it?”
Peter, looked over at Mandy, who was bouncing excitedly in the passenger seat.
“You know how I love a good Whodunnit Weekend, and I think they have surpassed themselves with the venue this time!”
I looked over at the view and had to agree. It wasn’t really my cup of tea, but I had wanted to impress her, and her mates told me that this was what she was into.
The building looked so… creepy. I was tempted to back out, but I couldn’t look like a wimp in front of her!
On the other side of the lane was a grim looking black forest… Oh, this gets better and better…
The saving grace was the view… That sunset. I was glad I had packed my camera. If nothing else, at least I could get some good shots for my portfolio.
Oh and the fact that if she was suitably impressed, I might get lucky!
With that thought, I pressed down on the accelerator.
TJ’s Household Haiku – Iron
04 Jun 2016 16 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Iron, tanka
Saturday is TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – and the prompt word is IRON.
Image from Google – Shuttestock
I thought of the irons and ironing in India when I have been to visit. There are obviously irons on India, and most households will have one, but there is this luxury that us in the western world would appreciate greatly!
Even though I love ironing, (really!) when the heat is hitting 40 degrees C, there is definitely a chance that I won’t want to stand there pressing clothes!
So this is when you phone the dhobi wala, or press wala. Basically the laundry, or ironing man.
He comes to your house with a bike that has a huge wooden table attached to the back of it, and a heavy coal fuelled iron, like the one in the image above, then he stand in your veranda and irons all your clothes for under £2-3!
Or if it is too hot,or you aren’t in a hurry, he takes your basket of clothes, and delivers them back to you later, fully ironed!
And they are ironed to perfection! You just have to be careful to explain if you have high fashion clothes that require creases in the places they are, or if you have jeans that want NO creases, because once that heavy iron hits your clothes, there is no going back crease-wise!!
So, onto my haiku (tanka) for today…
Therapy for me
A pile of un-ironed clothes
And a hot iron
Watching creases disappear
Satisfied – my job is done!Ritu 2016
Happy ironing folks!
My Poor Charger!
04 Jun 2016 39 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Posts, Blogger, Blogging, Charger, Dyson, Monster, Vacuum
Intent on getting all my housework done, so I could chill with the kids, and write posts for the blog, I got the vacuum cleaner out.
It’s a great vacuum, a Dyson ball thingie… but it does like to suck up things that it’s not supposed to, too!
This morning the latest victim was my iPad charger!
Not even mangled, but cleanly separated into 3 pieces, and now rendered totally unusable!
Thankfully we have another charger at home!
