Drifting through life

On Wednesdays , Elephant’s Child has been putting up a selection of six (or twelve) words which is called “Words for Wednesday” . She had taken over this meme from Delores , who is gradually retiring from the blogging world. This month the meme continues here, at Drifting Through Life Next month the words will be provided by Jacqueline who writes at Randomosity Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.      Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image .    What we do with those prompts is up to us:   a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore... Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.   I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme.     If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.   I’m hopeless at poetry so I always do a story.

from Carved in Bone , a Body Farm novel by Jefferson Bass   "I picked up the hunting knife with my left hand and tested its heft, then shifted it to my right hand to compare. Golfing and batting, I'm a lefty, but I grade papers and dial phone numbers with my right. The knife felt more at home there, too. Okay, I thought, add 'stabbing' to the list of right-handed activities." "Couldn't you have just put it in an autoclave, wrapped in some paper towels?" "Sure. But where's the fun in that? It's not every guy who gets to play with fire on the job." "Are you never going to grow up?" "I sure hope not. My childlike immaturity's the only thing standing between me  and a major mid-life crisis." Today's Thoughts: We all know I like to look at the Real Estate pages, although lately I look at some of those homes and wonder just how "real" these estates are.  I like to look at the big$$$ homes, see how

On Wednesdays , Elephant’s Child has been putting up a selection of six (or twelve) words which is called “Words for Wednesday”. She had taken over this meme from Delores , who is gradually retiring from the blogging world. This month the meme continues here, at Drifting Through Life ***Next month (August) the words will be provided for us by Jacqueline*** the link is here . Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.        Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image .    What we do with those prompts is up to us:   a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore... Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.   I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme.     If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.   I’m hopeless at poetry so I a

Welcome back to Whimsical Wednesday! The day for your googled giggle that gets you over the hump that is Wednesday and sliding down into the weekend. Possibly true?  I've never heard anyone say 'ello 'mate. It's always G'day mate.  Always.

Musical Monday I was introduced to Musical Monday by Delores who copied the meme from another site. I think it’s a fun way to show off some of the music we like and brighten up our Mondays at the same time.  I’ll be finding my clips on you tube , so will simply credit that site since there are often so many versions of everything and I wouldn’t want to accidentally credit the wrong artist. Today’s clip is: Madonna I'll Remember I heard this at the end of one of my favourite movies, With Honors , starring Brendan Fraser, Joe Pesci, Moira Kelly, Patrick Dempsey and Josh Hamilton. It's a great movie, I saw it first in the late 90s and was surprised to discover Madonna is the singer of this song. It's so different from her usual style. I hope it plays for you.

Welcome back to Sunday Selections! This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to showing on our blogs. The rules are very simple:- 1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title 2. link back to me, River , somewhere in your post 3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and see what you've posted. 4. hop on over to Elephant’s Child to see more of her wonderful photos.   Andrew often joins in too,and now that he is back from his holiday, we'll probably see more of his photographs from that his time in Canada and New York I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections and this week I'm taking you all back to Adelaide's Central Market.   I haven't been back there myself, these photos are from November 2011. Everybody ready? Got your walking shoes on? Here w