Today’s Debate

Posted on April 3, 2015 by jfb57

Toasted or cold?

100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week#130

Posted on April 21, 2014 by jfb57

Last week saw some wonderful pieces so do go and read them Week#129

I’m going to change the mood somewhat this week. It has been the Easter week-end and although it was not about chocolate, it has become a sweet-fest! So, the prompt is:

… but it has nuts in…

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13 Challenges – #13 / 3 Crosswords

Posted on April 1, 2013 by jfb57

We haven’t been out on a long lourney in the car lately as we have both been under the weather but over Easter we decided enough was enough and took ourselves off. Cue – a crossword!

The road was quite windy so the writing is not good!

We got stuck on 5 which is quite a lot for us. They were:

Across:

9. Dispatched to the interior (5) _ _ _ _ N
22. Game boss producing good position for expansion (10) _ R _ L _ E _ _ _ D ( we wondered if it ended in HEAD)

Down:

1. Means it won’t play a principal part (6) A _ _ _ C _
2. Does it secure tile to shingle? (6) H _ _ _ I _
17. Interval at recent play (4’4) _ N _ R / _ C _ E (not sure about the ‘apostrophe in 4’4! )

Any help would be appreciated. Of course I need to double check my spelling. 5 across – AVARICE was a problem when I put an E in the middle!

100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week#82

Posted on March 25, 2013 by jfb57

As Easter is nearly with us and the shops are bulging with it, the prompt is:

…looking at all of that chocolate…

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Last Week I Learnt That….#33

Posted on April 9, 2012 by jfb57

Religious holidays seem to have disappeared. I’m not a religious person myself although I do like to visit churches and cathedrals and get a sense of peace from them. As a youngster, life seemed to be arranged around the various festivals. When I say life I mean things like shops opening and every day services being carried out. Easter was the LONG holiday where nothing moved for 4 days. There was no post, no buses and few shops open. This year it has been business as usual it seems. I even got my dustbin emptied on Good Friday!

Easter is a problem for me. Not sure why. Maybe it is the sadness of the story that always seemed to be emphasized rather than the glory of Easter Day. It was also not helped by the deaths of both my parents in April – one on 1^st and the other 10^th within two years of each other. No, I don’t like Easter very much.

Friends are good to have. Although I lost a friend this week (see ‘Tears’), another got back in touch. I had been in contact via text as she had a series of awful events in her life but she had not felt stronger enough to meet. Our get-together was super. Lots of chatting, laughing and gossiping. I’m glad she is better.

You need to shop early. Disaster struck the household when we found out that the shop had sold all its Easter eggs. Serves us right for not making up our minds earlier about whether we were going to indulge!

Recycling takes time. Our council has taken the sensible decision to get us to recycle more items. To encourage us they have replaced our large wheelie bins with smaller ones and given us an array of boxes. We have got a brown bin, a black box and now a great big green box. They have sent clear instructions of what goes where and when we put some black plastic in the green box, left us a very polite message about it not being appropriate for recycling. I applaud this move. However, next time I’m going to be away for the collection, can you remind me to put aside an hour to sort the recycling for two weeks as it really mounts up!

It was comforting to see the sun but to need to put my coat on. Yes – it’s ‘proper’ April!

A mixed bag from me. How was your week?

100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week #36

Posted on March 26, 2012 by jfb57

Important Appeal from one of your readers!

I don’t know if there’s any way to post a message that everyone can see but for all the blogspot people, it’s very hard for those of us who aren’t members of blogspot to ever get to post a comment. If the word matching is turned on, it never thinks you’ve matched and sometimes when it’s not the comment just hangs up while it blinks back and forth to the word matching but never posts… I note from comments that I’m not alone. Definitely helps when people turn off the word match but maybe blogspot needs a heads up?

Hope you can help!

Now for this week’s prompt. As you know I like to be topical so I’m thinking Easter. However, I’m thinking a little outside the box! The prompt is quite simple but the trick this week is to prepare for NEXT week!

I want you to write a piece with

….‘What was the rabbit late for,’ wondered Alice…..

in it. You have 100 words making a total of 108. However, the last 10 words are going to be used to start a piece by someone else next week!! Good eh! The idea isn’t mine – it came from Winchester House School

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