Wednesday's Words on a Friday
The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.
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 to read it and add a few encouraging words.
This month the words/prompts are supplied by River (that's me) and can be found here
This week's words/prompts are:
1. striking 2. deliver 3. insulting 4. coffee 5. spanner
Also including Charlotte's colour of the month: St Patrick's Green
Here is my story:
Showing off his fancy dress costume of a velvet St Patrick's day green, he struck a pose as ordered by Madonna on the soundtrack we had been listening to earlier and declared, "I cannot stand that man's insulting words a moment longer! Now be so kind as to deliver me that spanner and I shall loosen up this frozen bag of coffee grounds."
I handed him the spanner, not asking why because I already knew the hammer was lost and probably would never be found, and he set to striking the foil packet of coffee grounds we had discovered deep within the bowels of the chest freezer. He struck quite vigorously and the packet was soon loose enough to spoon some grounds into the coffee machine.
We were soon sipping delicious coffee on our new back deck watching the sunset and remarking how closely the oranges and yellows mimicked the face and hair of "that person whose name shall never be spoken in this house."
It has been an age (and several computers) since I did any rounds of blogs or themes. Good to know they still exist - although back in the day it was Wordless Wednesday! I think that I now need coffee :D perhaps I might loosen up my joints and play one week soon.
ReplyDeletejeanie; welcome to drifting and thank you.
Deletewell done - nicely crafted - i admire the concept of freezing the coffee grounds - pro tip
ReplyDeleteArcticFox; thank you. I thought everyone knew about storing coffee in the freezer.
DeleteVery beautiful text River!
ReplyDeleteGood use of words!
I really liked the last scene!
It's been a long time since I've written a text,
maybe I'll try it this weekend! Lately I've been crazy about writing didactic fairy tales, they've absorbed me!! If I find time I'll come back, thanks for the prompts and the color!!
Katerinas Blog; thank you. I'd like to read if you can write a story or poem with these words.
DeleteNice use of the prompts! A coffee expert once told me not to store the grounds in the freezer for complicated reasons I can't remember. I say, if it works for you, do it.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; I don't have a coffee machine so I don't store grounds anywhere, but I did read somewhere about people who keep theirs in the freezer, so I used that tidbit.
DeleteI fear we will hear the name of that "person" for quite a while still. His monkeys "play the game" even further. I hope European satellite EUTELSAT can help asap for Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteIris; I am trying to not even think of "that person" as it makes me angry and I'd rather be happy. I do worry though for Ukraine and the rest of Europe.
DeleteSadly he is everywhere. I still fail to believe that it happened. And that there are still supporters.
DeleteHow lovely to sit of the deck and watch the sunset. Lovely story, R.
ReplyDeleteMargaret D; thank you. If I had a west facing deck I'd sit out there to watch the sunset.
DeleteHehe that's what comes from freezing ground coffee. We freeze the whole beans ;)
ReplyDeleteCharlotte; I don't need to freeze coffee, I only buy the instant powder in cans since I don't have a coffee machine and drink mostly plain water.
DeleteWe make old fashioned coffee, grinding the beans by hand, then pouring ht water over the ground beans into a thermos. We do this once, sometimes twice a day, and enjoy it. So sometimes - very seldom - we freeze some beans when there's a fab discount on our favourite beans. Plain water is drunk in large amounts at meals here ;)
DeleteCharlotte; that's a good idea with the thermos. I used to have one and used it for hot soup to take to work for lunch in winter.
DeleteI don't recall last time I had fancy dress on.
ReplyDeleteDora; me neither.
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