Life as we knew it changed a great deal with the pandemic. We humans, being an adaptable species, changed with it. Certain behaviours were reinforced while others were lost. For 5things Tuesday let us enumerate things we no longer do or do less frequently. Thanks https://saltedcaramel670.wordpress.com/tag/saltedcaramel/ for this question. I used to go shopping, justContinue reading “Changes from COVID”
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A Word Prompt or Three
Life had just seemed to pass me by until that day when my anniversary gift was revealed. Maurice, never normally romantic, normally forgot, but they had been married for forty years. They were like a comfortable, old pair of slippers, settling into old age together. But she didn’t feel old. Fifty was the new thirty,Continue reading “A Word Prompt or Three”
For Truthful Tuesday
His question this week is this: how closely has COVID-19 impacted you? Do you have first-hand experience, or has anyone in your family or immediate sphere of people you meet or see in person been diagnosed, or is it still something that hasn’t breached that third degree of separation for you? In the first yearContinue reading “For Truthful Tuesday”
January Silliness – My Answers
A post from last year for https://fivedotoh.com/2023/01/27/fandangos-flashback-friday-january-27th/ How would you describe your partner as: Thanks to https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/author/pensitivity101/ for the inspiration to write about what my partner would be as the following 1. A flower – He would be an orchid because he is expensive, and difficult to look after. 2. A vegetable – My partnerContinue reading “January Silliness – My Answers”
A Hint of a Rose – #Fandango’s Flashback Friday
”You view the world with rose coloured glasses my girl.” Her mother was always the same when she mentioned travelling the world. It was an mixed sensation of guilt, and anger all mixed into one ball of tangled wool. One good tug, and the whole emotional thread would unravel. “Mum, I’m not expecting it toContinue reading “A Hint of a Rose – #Fandango’s Flashback Friday”
My World of Sharing
Thanks to Share Your World and his Questions From Fabulous Bloggers 12-17-2021 Cyranny “What’s the worst day of the week for you?” Why? The worst day of the week has to be a Monday. It is the start of the week, and I know I have four days left to the weekend. I love Thursday because theContinue reading “My World of Sharing”
It’s a Random World
This week’s topic is “Randomness“. Here are my answers to E’M’s questions. You’ve been given an oversized elephant that is blind. You cannot get rid of it. What would you do with it? I would ask a safari park if I could pay to put my elephant there, where it can be looked after properly. IContinue reading “It’s a Random World”
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So, what has seen you through potential comfort eating phases? I make sure I haven’t got the sugary treats (chocolate, cake, biscuits, pudding) in my house to eat. That went right off the wall with Christmas chocolate’s in the house. I have been emotionally eating the last month or so. I’m quite a private person,Continue reading “https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/01/22/saturday-swapit-3/”
Baking a Cake
Written for Saturday Stream of Consciousness. I remember baking with my mum, and making cakes and biscuits. The icing on the cake was being able to clean the bowl with a spoon. Now we know to be careful with raw egg, but then it wasn’t known as a health risk. More so because if theContinue reading “Baking a Cake”
Another Brick in a Wall
‘It is just some stupid wall!’ ‘It’s not some stupid wall, it is a wall on my land.’ The dispute, over several years, and the wall had been knocked down and rebuilt three times already. Her neighbour, Walter, ignored all the warnings, and today they were going to court. ‘Why don’t you just talk toContinue reading “Another Brick in a Wall”
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