This week for https://lindaghill.com/2024/02/16/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-feb-17-2024/ I am of the generation where we snapped with cameras and compiled them into albums. I also have a tin, which was holds all of mum’s. Originally a toy, I recollect looking through it when I visited. Black and white, colour. Each is someone I wouldn’t want to forget. A grandmotherContinue reading “Happy”
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Lies, Whales, Tall Tales
Written forhttps://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/fibbing-friday-16th-february/ 5. What are you wearing in the sun? A hat. 6. Why do dogs chase after cars? For the exercise. 7. What did the cat say to its kitten about the humans? Keep them sweet, they feed us. 8. Goldfish are not fish. What are they? Whales 9. What would you rather doContinue reading “Lies, Whales, Tall Tales”
When I Grow Up
Written for https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/reenas-xploration-challenge-318/ Grannie tells me I can be whatever I wanted to be. When I told her my dream job would be a nun. Sister Act is my bestest film. She laughed. So much her dentures lost their footing. She explained, they prayed every morning and evening and had to give up their favouriteContinue reading “When I Grow Up”
Broken
Written today for https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-301/ With a broken heart, she observed her husband with another woman. It wasn’t a shock, or even something she hadn’t expected. Softly shutting the door behind her, she watched their lips meeting. Only this morning he brought her roses. She held her mobile, taking a few quick photographs. Tonight he wouldContinue reading “Broken”
Shopping
Home
Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/ Home a close knit flock in our formation of V, we escape the weather reality, A winter chill, the hint of things to come we fly south, our position we hold until the warmer air recoils Following our family on the breeze home.
Joy of Light
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2024/02/09/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-feb-10-2024/ There is a light at the end of every tunnel we go through. Metaphorically as well as literally. When you struggle to get out of bed in the morning, or when you are stressed, and it seems the seconds are endless, it is difficult. I remember a colleague saying to her students,Continue reading “Joy of Light”
Fibbing
Written in response to https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/fibbing-friday-9th-february/ 1. Distelfink – A name to call your local politician when they don’t fix the potholes and your car gets a flat.2. Fastnacht – Making Nacho’s in the microwave.3. Fergesslich – A term I use when I see the sink full of washing up.4. Fress – In between stress and completely losing it.5. Honswarsht –Continue reading “Fibbing”
Roses and Tulips
Ode to My Virtual Farm Roses grow with a flourish, Weather is always fine, Tulips never lose their colour, A perfect bunch every time. Peppers always keep their splendour, Sweet corn stand long and tall, Thriving plants on best behaviour, When proud visitors come to call. Creative help from my neighbours, Tending flowers on myContinue reading “Roses and Tulips”
A House Move
Written in response to https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2024/02/08/reenas-xploration-challenge-317/ A change of scenery, and Robert was going to miss his familiar routes in his home town, and he scuttled in every rabbit warren, never afraid of getting lost. He preferred the dark, because the shadows shifted into nothingness. Each night spent wandering until he met a friend he couldContinue reading “A House Move”
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