Today’s picture, for October is this beautiful berry bush. I took this when I popped into the chemist, and thought it had some amazing colours. Getting ready for winter, this plant will be a great source of food for the birds during the winter.
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A Girl’s Night In
For https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2022/10/02/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-232/ and the word club. ‘Fancy a night out,’ Shelly’s friend said, ringing out the blue. Clubs, they were noisy, cluttered places, with a lot of drunk people. She would much rather be at home, reading a good book, watching a good film, or even running a hot bubble bath. Her friend needed herContinue reading “A Girl’s Night In”
Fibbing on a Friday
What is a Friday without https://sparksfromacombustiblemind.wordpress.com/2022/10/07/fibbin-friday-10-6-2022/ Fibs. Unicorn gas allegedly contains this collection of colours Red, and yellow, and pink and green, orange and purple and blue, colours of a unicorn will never be blue. Yellow or green, most people eat a lot of these Bertie Botts All flavoured beans, but Dumbledore always gets theContinue reading “Fibbing on a Friday”
Day Six – October Pic
An October photograph, but not this year. This is me on an indoor parachute jump. It was a weird sensation, and I wasn’t that far off the ground, but I loved having the experience of floating on air. One day I will do the real thing.
Throwback Thursday – Childhood
This week’s prompt for Throwback Thursday is: Family Meal Rituals. https://fromcavewalls.wordpress.com/author/magcindy/ has given us a cause to remember our childhood. I loved her food stories, and pancakes with syrup is a favourite of mine. Let’s start at the top of the day, breakfast! Did your family have a sit down breakfast or were you more grabContinue reading “Throwback Thursday – Childhood”
Day Five – October
For October 5th I have posted my bowl, which I painted in a pottery centre near where I live. I wanted to do the Marauders Map, but what was in my head didn’t quite make it to the bowl. I even had to ask my daughter to show me the footprints. On the inside IContinue reading “Day Five – October”
Holiday Fun
What was the best vacation you ever took and why? Fandango’s question today is about our best vacation, or holiday to us Brits. My best holiday as a child would have to be the holidays, I had in a place called Margate in Kent. A seaside town it was well known for its theme park,Continue reading “Holiday Fun”
Leaves – October 4th
For October 4th my picture was taken just outside my daughter’s back garden. A pile of leaves, all in different shades of brown. There is something beautiful about walking through littered leaves, and the sound they make when you walk over them on a crips Autumn day.
Candy Corn?
This week’s Truthful Tuesday from https://sparksfromacombustiblemind.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/truthful-tuesday-10-4-2022/ and the question is do I like candy corn. I live in the UK, so we don’t really have it. It is only in the last twenty years that we have gone trick or treating. I went with my daughter when she was about ten years old, and alwaysContinue reading “Candy Corn?”
Conkers – Day Three
Day three of my post an autumn picture – Last week, my daughter, husband and granddaughter went hunting for conkers and my daughter took this one to show me when I got home. I still remember collecting conkers ready for having conker fights. The best conkers were probably the ones put in the oven, soContinue reading “Conkers – Day Three”
