Drifting through life

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it.
This month the words are supplied by Margaret Adamson and friend Sue Fulton and can be found here.
This week's words are in fact two phrases:

1. sun over the yardarm
2. going commando

Here is my story:

"Rise and shine Billy-boy," roared Dad jovially as he yanked the covers off the bed. "The sun is over the yardarm, high time you were downstairs helping your mother."

"Sun is over the yardarm? What does that even mean?" said Billy yanking on his pants. 

"It's a nautical term," said Dad. "Something to do with sailing ships and how high the sun was before they broke out the new bottle of rum I think. Great Gran…

I've handed over ownership of the Sunday Selections to Elephant's Child, choosing instead to post on an irregular basis and do other things instead, like clean my house, sort out my i-tunes, read some of the books that are stacking up alarmingly high...

Today's photos were NOT taken by me, they are sunrise clouds taken soon after dawn by 'no-one' as she left for work one day last week:

taken with her i-phone, I think they're pretty spectacular.
Sorry about the spacing :(

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it.
This month the words are supplied by Margaret Adamson and Sue Fulton and can be found here.
This week's words are:

1. scuttle
2. rapper
3. drop
4. machine
5. flowery
6. button

and/or:

1. cashback
2. tipping
3. pizza
4. energy
5. unsubstantiated
6. clear

Here is my story: I only used five of the words but there is more to come on this and the words will eventually fit in.

Ed volunteered to open the door and as he ushered Stanley and Irene inside, he noticed a large bank of dense black clouds rolling in. "Storm's coming," he said as everyone moved to the larger living room where there were more chairs. "They get pretty rough up here on the cliff,&…

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it.
This month the words are supplied by messymimi and can be found here.
This week's words are:

1. introduce
2. bawdy
3. insidious
4. outgoing
5. laborer
6. polite

and/or:

1. hall
2. conscious
3. ad hoc
4. sign
5. yarn
6. share

here is my story:

"I think it's very brave of you to make such an enormous change," said Joyce. "To introduce so much colour and texture."

"It's something I've been needing," said Marian. "I used to be such an outgoing person, but after marrying Doug I changed and didn't even notice it. His influence was so insidious, I was never conscious of the little things I changed in myself to accommodate…

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it.
This month the words are supplied by messymimi and can be found here.
This week's words are:

1. abounding
2. sloppy
3. quince
4. spiritual
5. toothpaste
6. cent

and/or:

1. debonair
2. blind
3. instrument
4. bouncy
5. horn
6. decision

Here is my story: an installment of Lost and Found


Late in the afternoon, after spending most of the morning on the reef and getting quite wet from the waves, Robert, Vanessa and Tom climbed back up to the retreat. Vanessa was eager for a shower and change of clothes and as she put it “a bucket load of moisturiser on my face!” After they had all freshened up Rob and Van met with Ed and Sara in the sitting room while Tom took his camer…

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it.
This month the words are supplied by messymimi and can be found here.

This week's words are:

1. gaze
2. dogs
3. brave
4. decisive
5. wrench
6. tempt 

and/or:

1. bad
2. shake
3. scribble
4. flower
5. afternoon
6. camp

here is my story:

God’s Observation Deck 6
God withdrew his gaze from the fields below and turned to Mary as she came through the doors.
“How’s that new trainee cook coming along? Will there be cake for dessert tonight?”
“Yes, there will be cake, but the checkerboard didn’t quite work out. It’s more blotchy, so I’m calling it cow-hide cake. Do you want icing on that?”
(cow-hide cake)

“Make the icing, but serve it in a bowl with one of those spreader thing…