Flash Fiction Foray #33 ‘Sh-Boom’

I love Matt’s prompt this week! It’s a song I can croon along to!

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The The Crew Cuts’ Sh-Boom.

I have definitely used a little creative licence here, there is no truth to this at all… Well, I don’t know, but it’s just how the story turned out!

“Life could be a dream, sweetheart,” Benny said, “you just gotta trust me.”
Frankie looked over the figures in front of her and glanced at him. He had his heart set on this.  But it meant their savings being ploughed into something she wasn’t sure of.
He was a good cook, yeah, and she could be the hostess with the mostess, but was he really good? And could she entertain a room fulla folks?
Only time would tell…
Six months later, they unveiled Frankie & Benny’s.
Years later she thought back to that day. Thank God she had trusted him…

 

Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 26 – ‘Distance’

It is time for Hugh’s weekly Photo prompt challenge.

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1. Take or choose a photo that you’ve taken which defines Distance.
2. Create a new post on your blog entitled “Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 26 – ‘Distance’
3. Add the photo(s) you have taken to the post and tell us a little about what you are showing.
4. Create a pingback to this post or leave a link to your post in the comments section so other participants can view the post.

It seems like a really easy prompt, then you realise that actually, as Hugh said, you end up deleting most of the photos as they were out of focus, or there wasn’t what you actually wanted, in them.

I use my phone camera for pretty much all my photos, as it is easier. I don’t profess to be an expert photographer, and if they are good captures, its pure luck!

So off I went, scrolling through my photo album on my phone, and these were what I came up with.

The first is a photo of a sheep-filled field. I took this at the wedding reception we attended on Sunday. Standing there, allI could see were these fluffy white clouds clustered around the field, so I took the photo to show Hubby Dearest when I got back. When I looked at said photo, it didn’t look like that many, but if you zoom in, there are many little white dots that come into focus!

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Bleat bleat
Sheep sheep
Everywhere you look!
Baa Baa
So Far
In every cranny and nook
Meh Meh
Here and there
Where’s the shepherd’s crook?
How many sheep?
Zoom in and see
In this photo I took!

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And another is one I took of the fog one morning near our house. If you look closely enough, you can see the outline of the Gurdwara. It isn’t, in actual fact, much of a distance away, but seems so because of the fog!

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Hidden from our view
Behind a curtain of fog
Yet He sees us all

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Hope you liked my take!

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #97 Magic&Glimmer

Monday night and it is time for a haiku challenge, thanks to Lovely Ron!

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Sorry, no images today to complement the Haiku, but I was a little tied up!

Eyes

Just a flash of those
Bewitchingly feline eyes
Take my breath away

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Hope

All it takes
A glimmer of hope
Pure magic

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Voodoo Dolls

Painfully sharp pins
Twinkle as I push them in
Voodoo dolls are great!

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The Reception and Other News!

It was the final part of the wedding yesterday. A reception in a beautiful Manor House Venue in Hampshire. We got there, almost, before the Sat Nav decided we had arrived, yet we were in the middle of a construction site!

A few moments of panic, then we found it, tucked away!

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We were lucky, it a glorious day!

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Being as it was a fusion wedding, Indian to English, the entertainment was mixed and there was this great moving band serenading groups of people as they mingled, and nibbled on canapes! That’s the Bride’s Sister In Law, having a boogie!

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The happy couple. Don’t they look gorgeous!

Lil Princess loved it, running around the manicured lawns, then posing for photos! Oh, then the spinning round on the dancefloor until you got dizzy bit! And there was a liquid nitrogen ice cream stall, where you could order your ice cream and it was made and frozen in front of you! Cool!!!!

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There were also the obligatory peacocks roaming around the stately home grounds, and we happened upon this albino peacock!

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And here is me, in my blue garb, ready for the party!

Oh and in other news, A very proud mummy here!

Hubby Dearest and Lil Man didn’t go as it was the football season’s last match and the end of season team presentation.

Well, what a way to finish it! He scored a goal, and came home with 2 trophies! The one that all players get for completing, and a special one for commitment to the team!

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We were late coming home, so once I had scraped Lil Princess off her car seat, changed her and got her to bed, he was fast asleep. I’m off to hug and congratulate him now!

Have a wonderful Monday Peeps!

 

 

Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 65

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“In this life we cannot always do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Theresa

Spidey found a humdinger of a quote this week!

I love this whole philosophy that just because we may not get huge recognition for our good deeds, it shouldn’t stop us from doing them.

Unfortunately, there are folk out there who only do good in order to look ‘great’.

The people who are truly great are those who don’t look around constantly, to see who saw them give a donation or who noticed them helping that old lady across the road.

The truly great are selfless.

These good deeds are done naturally, with only compassion in their heart, and a true sense of happiness that they may have eased the life or day of someone.

Make it a daily thing Peeps. Try and do something, anything to help someone, however small, and feel great that you have done something positive. A small thing to you may be great to someone else.

 

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