Bloganuary’s tail-end

January 31, 2023 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 14 Comments

So that was Bloganuary 2023. It was a relief not having to think what to blog about, but I didn't feel I could really get my teeth into this year's questions. A nice month to visit, but I wouldn't want to stay there. ### 29th Jan What is something you learned recently? I can't break sellotape … Continue reading Bloganuary’s tail-end

Bloganuary week 4

January 28, 2023 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 8 Comments

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

January 21, 2023 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 15 Comments

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

January 14, 2023January 19, 2023 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 12 Comments

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

January 7, 2023 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 10 Comments

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

A Christmas story I made earlier

December 23, 2022 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 10 Comments

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

December 17, 2022December 23, 2022 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 13 Comments

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

December 11, 2022 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 9 Comments

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

Still Diverting

November 30, 2022October 30, 2022 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 8 Comments

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

101 Word Flash Fiction

November 22, 2022November 22, 2022 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 10 Comments

I'm please to announce my flash fiction story The Last Night is published today on Flash Fiction Magazine's 101 words website. ### ### What do you have to celebrate today? ###