Eat Your Vegetables

Written for https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/ragtag-daily-prompt-thursday-esculent/ Each vegetable has a place on a Christmas plate. Sprouts will cause the big debate Can you eat them? is it clear Unless there is a honey sheer. Let them have a calmer taste escape the sin of waste never going to win they’ll probably end up in the bin.

Lodgers

Today https://cyranny.com/2022/12/28/december-28th-1minfiction-challenge/ This picture reminds me of the pigeons outside my house. I have put hedgehogs in my guttering, and netting around my solar panels, and they still refuse to leave the roof. About the the only thing that stops them, is when the sun shines on the panels. I don’t think they are nesting,Continue reading “Lodgers”

Gifts

Written in response for https://fromcavewalls.wordpress.com/2022/12/22/throwback-thursday-69-a-gift/ Christmas is a busy time of year for a lot of people, mostly buying gifts we hope our family’s will enjoy. This year I have been extremely lucky; from wine, chocolate, leggings, jumpers, socks, Ravenclaw goblet, eternity ring, bath bombs, books and so much more. I prefer to find giftsContinue reading “Gifts”

Perfection

Written in response to https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/12/28/rdp-wednesday-fantastic/ daily prompt. ‘Fantastic, it’s my lucky day,’ Molly said, as she picked up a toy from the table. It was perfect, a kitchen her son wanted. Taking it to the counter, she looked at the charity box on the side. She couldn’t afford much, but she couldn’t not give anything.Continue reading “Perfection”

Gift of Love

In response to https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/12/26/share-your-world-26th-december/ 1.   If you have been given a variety of gifts, do you have a clear out of older stuff to make room for it? My gifts mostly consist of bath products, jumpers (I can never have enough of), Harry Potter stuff, slippers. No, I don’t clear out older stuff. 2.  DoContinue reading “Gift of Love”

Besties

Written for https://fivedotoh.com/2022/12/26/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-199/ They were fifteen when they last said goodbye to each other. Now, m Mothers to be, life had changed in so many ways. It was different, yet the same old laughter. It was a friendship they first saw at the age of twelve. One young girl, sitting on a bike rack. Another,Continue reading “Besties”

Don’t Ever Forget

Written in response to https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/author/sadje19/ Alice had been here before; a bottle that said, ‘drink me.’ A cake that said, ‘eat me.’ Now, this gift, underneath the Christmas tree, took her back to a time of Cheshire cats, and the Queen, getting her servants to paint white roses red. Growing up was strange, not aContinue reading “Don’t Ever Forget”

Christmas Fibs

Written for What were these carols about? Part 2: What were these songs really about? https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/fibbing-friday-23rd-december/ What were these carols about? 1. Away in a Manger It is where Jesus was asleep in the manger, so fast asleep, the animals didn’t wake him up. 2. Hark the Herald Angels Sing. The angels sang Jesus toContinue reading “Christmas Fibs”

Rosmarie

Written for https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/author/cyranny/ A landscape gardener and his pride and joy was always the rose bush at the back. He planted it when he first started, his first attempt at growing anything. Now, sixty years later, it still bloomed every spring. Now it was sleeping, but when his daughter was sixteen, it would bloom again.Continue reading “Rosmarie”