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For Saturday word promt Funny, it’s a strange old world.

Saturday Snippet – It Won’t Happen Again

CHAPTER ELEVEN MARTHA With officers on guard, and tables bolted down to stop prisoners from throwing them across the room, Martha wasn’t sure this was the right environment for Tabitha, but it was too late now to change her mind. The door opened, as the visitors filed inside. Martha watched as groups of men andContinue reading “Saturday Snippet – It Won’t Happen Again”

Double Trouble

Double Take – My Take on Word Prompt Welcome to the Saturday Mix, 11 December 2021! The ‘Double Take’ challenge focuses on the use of homophones* to build your writing piece. You have two sets of homophones and you are challenged to use all of them in your response – which can be poetry orContinue reading “Double Trouble”

Family Tree – For Stream of Consciousness

A few years ago my sister-in-law looked into our family tree – she went back to the 1500’s and we found out some interesting things. There were three sisters, and they came from a rich family. Somewhere in Aylesbury there is the ancestral home, which belonged to them, but because they were female and notContinue reading “Family Tree – For Stream of Consciousness”

Certify – A Word Prompt from Fandango

This tiny piece of paper, posted through a letterbox and she wasn’t afraid to open it. Her results were already emailed. The decision to take a college course at the age of fifty a strange one, but something she wanted to do. Divorce, an ugly word, but a word all the same. Now she hadContinue reading “Certify – A Word Prompt from Fandango”

E.M.’s Random Word Prompt #10

E.M.’s Random Word Prompt #10 Introvert I would class myself as an introvert. My play will be advertised in a couple of months, and there will be a meet and greet when it airs for the first time. I don’t really like being in front of the crowd, but rather the person behind the words. IContinue reading “E.M.’s Random Word Prompt #10”

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Belly dancing classes ahead. Table top car boot sale ahead. Umbrella repair ahead. Slimming world venue. Mini Me film festival. Dancing in the dark Bowler hat cake shop Gas alert, no smoking allowed 20 percent off all concrete triangles. Beatles Museum ahead.

Thursday Snippet – From my book – It Won’t Happen Again

Martha looked down to her lap and then back to Helen. ‘Yes, she’s my daughter. I didn’t understand why she was so angry with Thomas. Chris helped me to see it from her point of view. On that last night helped me write a letter. I told her the reason why I couldn’t take Buddy.Continue reading “Thursday Snippet – From my book – It Won’t Happen Again”

For Throwback Thursday

Did you, or did you collect every piece of art your children/grandchildren ever made? I did, and at one point had a whole cupboard full of them, until my Mother-in-law said it was way too much, so instead I took a few and put them in a scrap book. Every now and then I willContinue reading “For Throwback Thursday”

Nearly a dog’s dinner

Hesitation, that was my downfall, that and a cat named Billy. I was so close to taking haul from the kitchen counter, when she meowed so loud that it brought my owner from the front room, where they were unwrapping their Christmas gifts and into the kitchen. Caught paw handed. If I hadn’t jumped whenContinue reading “Nearly a dog’s dinner”