I've seen fewer Bloganuary posts this year on my feed. (Although, I confess, I haven't been searching them out.) Last year there were enough to make me curious, although it took a while to sink in. The prompts have given me something to blog about this month - most of them not topics I would … Continue reading Bloganuary week 4
Bloganuary week 3
Since I don’t blog daily, I'm doing my bit for Bloganuary by posting a summary of the week’s prompts. ### 15th Jan What fear have you conquered? The fear of pressing 'Publish'. ~ ~ ~ 16th Jan Do you have a memory that’s linked to a smell? The smell of freesias reminds me of churches. Nothing specific, … Continue reading Bloganuary week 3
Bloganuary week 2
I don’t blog daily. I'm sort of taking part in Bloganuary by posting a summary of the week’s prompts. Some responses have been brief. ### 8th Jan How far back in your family tree can you go? Another short one. . . I have the name of my birth mother on my original birth certificate. No … Continue reading Bloganuary week 2
Bloganuary week 1
Last year I joined the challenge late with a summary of the previous week’s bloganuary prompts. I don’t blog daily. Anyway, a one-word blog seems a waste of cyberspace. It worked for me last year, so here we are again. ### 1st Jan What is something you want to achieve this year? Placement in more short … Continue reading Bloganuary week 1
Singing as Therapy
Raising the spirits without resorting to spirits Carol singers I belong to a local singing group: nothing fancy, just a singalong. Some weeks, I ask myself if I can be bothered to turn out – especially when I'm busy or put off by the weather we've been having lately here in the East of England. … Continue reading Singing as Therapy
A Christmas story I made earlier
Another re-post! Faithful followers will have read this one before (twice!) But it's a story I'm fond of... ### Christmas Presence Shorty scrambled over the top of the skip and landed next to me on the old cardboard that topped the pile of rubbish. I don’t know what was underneath that but it stank a … Continue reading A Christmas story I made earlier
Angels
This was a collaborative story with another member of our writing group. We used the photo prompt from a November challenge from the Stine Writing blog's 'Simply Six Minutes'. Jane Pogbee (the Whittlesey Wordsmith who illustrates our anthologies) wrote a 'part one' giving it the title Angels, and I completed the tale the following month, … Continue reading Angels
Christmas Wrapping
Here's a previous years' poem that returned to me this morning while wrapping hubby's present. While one hand holds the paper, t'other's groping for the tape. Her goodwill fades as sticky tape escapes her lurches. She lets go the gift, to travel to the tape that caused the hassle and the perfect wrap unravels. Curses! … Continue reading Christmas Wrapping
One-sided
It is often said that beauty depends on symmetry. Sadly, nothing about me is symmetrical Is it something that happens in the womb, I wonder? Or do we use one side more than the other through life? Certainly my right side seems doomed to wear out quicker than the left. I wonder if this is … Continue reading One-sided
Still Diverting
This is an update of my post originally entitled A Diversion, published – would you believe – in 2013 ! Challenges from Chris Fielden and Friends I’ve been following Chris Fielden’s challenges for many moons, at https://www.christopherfielden.com/ I enter short stories in his two-yearly To Hull and Back competitions and have even been shortlisted. (My story, … Continue reading Still Diverting
Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings 