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#SoCS Feb 10/18 – Tail/Tale

10 Feb 2018 28 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Chickens, Dog, February, Fox, Linda G Hill, Socs, Tail/Tale

Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “tail/tale.” Use one, used them both, you decide. Enjoy!

Let me tell you a tale about a fox
A cunning fox who wore fetching socks
This dapper mammal would use his charms
To ‘fox’ even the most capable alarms
He’d work his way through chickens galore
Sneak off, then hear the farmers roar
They’d know the fox who’d tricked them so
He’d leave a sock wherever he did go
But catch him? No, they never could
Until one farm dog swore he would
He sat and hatched a daring plan
Never tried before, by dog, or man
A trap was laid, the dog stood watch
Praying his plan just wouldn’t botch
And, as luck would have it, succeed, he did
Of that cunning fox, they were finally rid!
All that was left, causing Fox to wail
Was a cut-off, furry foxy tail.

Ritu 2018

Catch ya later Peeps!

Happy Saturday Peeps!

#SoCS Jan. 3/18 – In Other Words…

03 Feb 2018 35 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Birthdays, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Busy, February, In Other Words, Linda G Hill, Socs

Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “in other words.” Use the phrase at least once in your post. Have fun!

How are we all today?

I’m fine, on this Saturday morning, glad that the alarm didn’t have to go off to wake me at some ungodly hour!

And what do I have to look forward to? Chillaxing time? Nothing but me and my book? (And family, obviously!)

Don’t be silly!

February is always one of my busiest months, with all of my in-laws birthdays my Hubby Dearest’s birthday (Mother-in-law’s on the same day!), my Lil Princess’s (Father-in-law’s on the same day!) AND Valentine’s Day! And today, in fact, is my brother-in-law’s special day! Happy Birthday, Big Bro!

In other words, there’ll be no rest for us this month, let alone this weekend!

But I still aim to carve some time out to write, during our half-term break, which is a week off from work at least, if not from life!

Better get off to wrap presents!

Catch ya later Peeps!

Happy Saturday Peeps!

Hello February!

01 Feb 2015 2 Comments

by Ritu in Family, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Birthdays, Blog, Blogging, Expensive, Family, February, love, Valentines Day

And so the month of luuuurve has graced us with its presence!

February we welcome you with open arms, and I know we will wave goodbye to you with wallets empty too!

You see, it’s not just the Valentine’s Day we have to contend with in this family, let’s face it, with everything else, Valentine’s Day just becomes another day!

It appears June must be a special month, an extremely love filled month in my in laws family, as pretty much all babies arrived in February!
My BIL celebrates his 40th first, then it is my MIL and Hubby Dearest celebrating theirs together (what a great 21st birthday present my MIL had!) then it is my FIL, who also got a lovely birthday present 7 years ago, as Lil Princess is born on the same day too!

Trying to get cards and presents barely 2 months after Christmas…It’s not easy, but still, a lovely month!

And as for Valentine’s Day, well, I love him every day that we are together, I don’t really need a special day to say “I love you” and neither do I need confirmation from him, just on that one day…

(But I’d never refuse a gift😜!)