Song Lyric Sunday Theme for 24/12/17 – Danger
DANGER – is Helen’s theme for this week! I’ve chosen one of the first tracks by The Quarrymen, recorded in July 1958. It wasn’t actually released until November 1995. You can read the background to...
View ArticleThe not so Old Girl and The Sea
Originally posted on Tales from the Romulan Neutral Zone: It started with a Hashtag. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, the tributary streams of our modern world flowing into the big river of awareness....
View ArticleWildlife Encroachment
Originally posted on Mitigating Chaos: Florida Woman Stops Alligator Attack Using a Small Beretta This is a story of self-control and marksmanship by a brave, cool-headed woman with a small pistol...
View ArticleTwittering Tales #86 – 29 May 2018
It’s time again for Kat Myrman’s wonderful challenge to tax our creative souls. Just take her photo prompt and write a story, inspired by it, in 280 characters or fewer. Here is this week’s prompt and...
View ArticleLundi limerick #2
A beetle called Bertie, from Brum, got stuck on his back in the sun. A friend came from Dover and flipped him back over, preventing a slow roasted tum! Brum: a colloquial name for Birmingham, England.
View ArticleTwittering Tales #131 – 9 April 2019
It’s time again, for Kat Myrman’s wonderful challenge, to write a story, inspired by her picture prompt, in 280 characters or fewer. Here is this week’s prompt and my contribution. Check out all the...
View ArticleTwittering Tales #132 – 16 April 2019
It’s time again, for Kat Myrman’s wonderful challenge, to write a story, inspired by her picture prompt, in 280 characters or fewer. Here is this week’s prompt and my contribution. Check out all the...
View ArticleTwittering Tales #150 – 20 August 2019
With a full time job, and all the fantastic poetry she writes, I don’t know where Kat finds the time to keep up with this wonderful challenge, but I’m glad that she does. Here is this week’s picture...
View ArticleRapid rhyme #13 – Unlucky for some!
Does my bum look big in this? Of course it bloomin’ does! But I will never say as much Because – oh, just because I learned to hold my tongue way back In 1974 Like every married fella does I got to...
View ArticleRapid rhyme #15 – The end?
Oh the smell, and the whiff, and the pong as the world goes terribly wrong it’s all just erupted with earth much corrupted hold your nose and join in with a song! Advertisements
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Surviving the U boat sinking of the RMS Laconia 12 September 1942 —...
What John doesn’t mention here is that he was a young schoolboy in Gibraltar in the 1950’s and has fond memories of his many escapades there. You can find further details on his blog and he also...
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“Lilacs”
Georgina, on NavasolaNature, blogged today on War and Peace in fiction, truth, and reality. She included a link to Steve Schwartzman’s post, beautifully written by his father, Jack Schwartzman, about...
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