16 Mar 2019 29 Comments
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Linda’s #SoCS prompt this week:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “soul/sole.” Use one, use both, use ’em any way you like. Enjoy!
A sole soul
Is a very unfortunate one
Where others have lots of company
This one tends to have none
He leads his life
In a solitary way
Not caring at all
If it's night time or day
So if you meet one
Approach with care
And give them a smile
Or a word, if you dare
Ritu 2019
09 Mar 2019 29 Comments
in #SoCS Tags: #SoCS, #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Abash/a bash/bash, Annual Bloggers Bash Awards, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill
Linda’s #SoCS prompt:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “abash/a bash/bash.” Use “abash,” or “bash” as a noun or a verb. Bonus points if you manage all three. Have fun!
I’m going to a bash this year.
I’ve been to a bash the last three making this my fourth.
It’s not just any bash, but the Annual Bloggers Bash.
Have you heard of it?
It is a great event, where you can meet many likeminded bloggers, and mingle, share tips and ask questions.
There is an awards fuction too, which comprises of catergories whose nominees have been voted for by bloggers worldwide.
I’ve been lucky all three years, coming home with some sort of recognition, from second place, Best Overall Blogger award 2016, to the winner Best Overall Blogger 2017, to third place Best Overall Blogger 2018. I was even a guest speaker last year!
It appears that I have peaked.
This year I have been nominated for Best Book Blogger ( grateful for the nomination) but there is no way I could be placed in this category, as I know of many more, focussed on book, blogs that are more deserving.
But I shan’t come away from the day abashed. No.
I’ll come away with more beautiful memories of a fantastic day!
23 Feb 2019 30 Comments
in #SoCS Tags: #SoCS, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Critic, Critical, Linda G Hill, Stream Of Consciousness Saturday
Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “critic(al).” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
Sometimes, it’s easy to become your worst critic.
Actually, scratch that. Unless you are supremely overconfident, it is human nature to be critical of yourself, and usually, more so that anyone else.
Self-doubt is one of those things that creeps up on you, and it is a slippery slope to that great place – the Wallow Pool – if you aren’t careful.
We are often so busy looking at ourselves, or our work, with a negative eye that we tend to tune out the words of encouragement that are being sent our way.
So, my message to you all today is to try and open your mind, your ears, your eyes and your heart to the good stuff that people say about you.
It’s often a much better opinion of you than you actually hold!
09 Feb 2019 15 Comments
in #SoCS Tags: #SoCS, #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Adverbs, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill
Linda’s #SoCS prompt this week:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “ends with -ly.” Start your post with any adverb that ends in “-ly.” Bonus points if you end with an adverb too. Have fun!
Seriously? Words that end with -ly? Well, okay then.
Finally I am back, taking part in all the challenges I used to!
I've thankfully got off to a good start!
It's stream of consciousness, so I mindlessly tap away at the keys.
What I am writing is making no sense, honestly.
29 Dec 2018 41 Comments
in #SoCS Tags: #SoCS, Ask Anyone, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, Squat, Stream Of Consciousness Saturday
Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “ask someone else.” Either ask someone for a prompt word or, if you can’t, turn on a TV or a radio and choose a word from the first sentence you hear. Enjoy!
Squat.
Yes, that is the word I chose after switching on the TV and finding Deuce Bigalo: Male Gigolo on the screen!
So, what can I write about squat?
Diddly squat. I do like that phrase… Where did it come from? Apparently it is thought to have come from the US, where the word doodle might have been used first – meaning poops. Then doodly squat turned to diddly squat, meaning the least amount, or not knowing anything at all!
But I lie… I do know about squatting.
It’s apparently the preferred way to go back home… except I wasn’t born there, so I am happy to sit atop my ivory throne and do the do, if you know what I mean.
Though the West has certainly caught on to the fact that squatting is the natural way to go, and just yesterday I saw an ad for a squat stool, rather like a child’s toilet stool, to help them up when they are toilet training. This time it’s for adults, and you are supposed to put your feet on it when you go, whilst sitting on your ivory throne (because you are too modern for the real squat, you know!) so your legs are squishing up against your body, rather like if you were squatting... And that is supposed to be the next best thing…
Jees, did I really write about toilet habits?
Sorry, that is true Stream Of Consciousness for you!
I could have just told you of the aches and pains caused by me trying the exercise version of the squat, in the 30 day squat challenge a few years ago… but that would just have been tame… and no, I didn’t get the buns of steel!!
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