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#SoCS June 11/16 – mb

11 Jun 2016 17 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, mb, Socs

Linda’s prompt…

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “mb.” Find a word that has those two letters in it, in that order, and base your post on it. Have fun!

I’m off to the Annual Blogger’s Bash today so this will have to be short and sweet…

But it can’t have escaped the notice of you, my readers, exactly how excited I have been about today!

Right now, I’m like a time bomb about to explode with all the nervous energy I’m producing!

It’s pretty embarrassing, me, a grown woman, acting like a teenager about to go to her first party!

But seriously, I can’t wait!

Books – SoCS June 4/16

04 Jun 2016 19 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, books, Linda G Hill, Socs

Linda’s SoCS prompt this week…

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “book.” Use any meaning of the word as your theme, or simply mention the word “book” in your post. Enjoy!

I love books.

My collection of children’s books is pretty extensive.

It started before I even had kids of my own to be honest, as I have always had the Teacher hat on, and if I saw a book that looked fun, I bought it.

My mum is the same, but her shelves were full of Danielle Steele, and Catherine Cookson, and nowadays, any family sagas, and war time home front stories.

She bought us books too, so when I became a mother, she presented me with a small collection of books saved from when I was a little girl, and the joy at seeing my own kids reading books I read as a child is immense.

My wish would be to have a room that I could call my library, and be able to store all my books… but alas, I don’t have that luxury, so as I read physical books, I end up passing them on to friends, or my mum, and only keep a select few.

In fact this is why I decided to get a Kindle, or I should say I was gifted it! I have a wealth of literature at my fingertips, and I don’t need lots of space!

It isn’t the same as a real book in my hand, that feeling cannot be replaced with an electronic device, but at least I can still read!

But I will not be parted from my children’s books!

The bookcase in the children’s room is sagging at every level. 5 shelves jam packed with books, and piles in front of it too!

I have two other bookcases. One is full of teaching resource books, and the other, partly fiction, and even more resource books. Some of these books are obsolete, and I should get rid/sell them, or do something, but I just can’t!

I struggle to walk past a bookshop… the smell of new books, those unbroken spines… thousands of words waiting to be read… but I have to be strong… and if I slip, and find myself inside, I allow myself a little peak, a sniff… then I walk out with a new list of books to buy!!!

I do whitter on… don’t I!!!

#SoCS May 28/16 – Press

28 May 2016 20 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, Press, Socs

Linda’s SoCS Prompt this week…

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “Press.” Find a word that starts with press-, ends with -press, or use “press” as a word all by itself. Have fun!

I have a pressing need to write this post as soon as I can. After all, I shall be rather busy on Saturday. No time to be pressing keys on my Surface, or tapping my iPad screen.

It is going to be hard to express myself clearly today, as I am still keeping a BIG secret, and aside from a chosen few, no one knows. I am able to keep secrets pretty well you know!

When Lil Princess was growing in my womb, pressing upon my bladder, we had the scan done, to see what sex our baby was. Knowing a little girl was coming to make our family complete was a dream come true, but we decided not to tell anyone…. That was HARD!

I love to talk, and am generally pretty open about everything, so when people were asking if we knew, my lips were pressed tightly shut. I wasn’t going to be the one to blab, not me! I was going to prove to my Hubby Dearest that I could keep secrets!

When she arrived, it was the most wonderful gift for everyone, and when I was finally able to confess that we knew, my mum called me a ‘little rascal’! A mother of 2 being called a little rascal at her maternity bedside! And by her mother! They were all actually impressed that I did manage to keep a secret for so long! And honestly, apart from Hubby Dearest, no one else but me knew! And the sonographer obviously!

Coming back to today, I am not actually being pressed to keep a secret from everybody, but I have to be careful not to let one person know something, hence the secrecy on here… because if I was to write something and they decided that it would be a good idea to read my blog that day, I’ll be buggered!

(Don’t worry, I have a scheduled post tomorrow which will reveal all! It may mot be a big deal for some, but it’s HUGE for me! Can’t wait to see the expression on someone’s face!!!)

There! That was some Stream of Consciousness there! and I managed to get Press into every paragraph somehow or another!!!!

#SoCS May 21/16 – Brake/Break

21 May 2016 24 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Brake/Break, Linda G Hill, Socs

It’s Saturday SoCS time!

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “brake/break.” Use one, use them both, but whatever you do, enjoy!

Always use your brakes with your emotions… don’t speed off down the emotional highway without checking them. Slow down, make sure you are travelling down the right road… You don’t want to end up with a heart that breaks…

Short and sweet today 🙂

Happy Saturday Peeps!

SoCS May 14/16 – Two Letters #SoCS

14 May 2016 11 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, Socs, two letters

Saturday us here and so is Linda’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday Prompt.

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: Start your post with a two-letter word. End it with a two-letter word for bonus points. Have fun!

It is Saturday and the first weekend post SATs! Phew! How are we spending it?

Well some of you know I attended a wedding yesterday, and the reception is tomorrow. So though I’m glad I fit into my outfit yesterday, I still need to be dolled up for the next event too!

I’ll be going with my father and mother in law, and Lil Princess. Lil Man and Hubby Dearest are staying here because Lil Man has his last match of the season and then an end of season presentation. Something that, for him, is much more important. And to be honest, I’d rather he get to do something for himself, rather than be dragged to a function that he may get bored at.

Today. It’s the same old stuff… He has football training, she has her Punjabi school, and the afternoon will be filled with homework, so we are free for tomorrow. Hubby Dearest will be doing an airport run this afternoon as my brother in law and his wife are off on holiday. A free holiday, almost. To New York and Bermuda. He won it at work, well the Bermuda part, and the tagged a week in New York on to it, only having to pay for the hotel in New York! He wins one each year…

I want a holiday… Haven’t been on a plane for 4 years… One day…

Jealous? Me? No!!!!!!