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 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…

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. sustenance
2. booth
3. street
4. hint
5. syrup
6. drab

and/or:

1. older
2. cardboard
3. wounded
4. front
5. empty
6. astonished

Here is my short story:

"Peter! Peter! Bring Mary, you two should see this," said God looking down from his observation deck.

Down below:


Staggering along the street, clutching her stomach, Caroline groaned theatrically. “Sustenance, I need sustenance. I’m staaarving!”
“Caro, you can’t be starving, we ate an hour ago,” said Jesse. “Yes,” said Caro, “but you rushed us out of the café without even a hint of dessert. Let alone something goo…

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 again supplied by Delores and can be found here.

This week's single word is: TELEVISION



When I was a young child, living in the hot and dry mid-north of South Australia, not many people had television sets. Certainly there wasn't one in every home. Being so far from the city, reception for television was poor to non-existent. A solution was to have installed in your backyard a tall metal tower, three-sided, wide at the base and tapering towards the top, where an antenna would be installed, aimed, hopefully, in the right direction, to be able to receive the three broadcasting television stations. 

Rabbit Ears antennas were …

Anyone receiving an email "from me"  check the subject line where it says "everybody recommends me this" and there is a link to 'booklet.aimconsultoresdotcom'

please be aware this is NOT from me, those buggers have hacked my email list again. 

I apologise, but don't know how to stop it.

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 again supplied by Delores and can be found here.
This week's words are:

1. blasted
2. withered
3. derelict
4. broken
5. chained
6. ground 

and/or:

1. fresh
2. growing
3. alive
4. active
5. hope
6. dreams

Here is my story: a further installment of the Shark Cove tale


Roger came back in wiping his hands dry and showed Detective Inspector Stanley Grace and Detective Irene Fargo into his evidence room where he proudly displayed boxes of files arrayed in alphabetical order according to year of production. In almost no time at all, Stanley and Irene were opening boxes of files on missing persons from fifteen years ago, with more boxes going as f…