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 Wisewebwoman and can be found here.
This week's words/prompts are:
1.larch 2.trifle 3.multiple 4.poteen
and/or:
1.surprise 2.quiche 3.flag 4.crossword
Here is my story:
I’ve put this off until
the last minute so here goes:
Christmas Day at the
twins house was as hectic as expected, with the girls high on excitement and I
arrived earlier than “no-one” who was coming on a later bus.
Multiple hugs and
kisses were given and received and a surprise for me was a Christmas Stocking
with an “N” on it, for Nanny of course.
A few times during the
lead up I planned to make a Crab Quiche to take along for sharing, it's lovely eaten cold,but didn’t
get around to it, mostly because canned crabmeat doesn’t seem to be available
anymore, and the real thing, fresh crabmeat, is way beyond what little budget I
had left.
Food was plentiful anyway,
with every inch of the table covered in platters with umbrella style net covers
to keep the flies off. “No-one” arrived to more excitement from the girls, and
a dessert trifle was whisked into the fridge to keep cold, but not the
traditional trifle, no: this was something new** with a layer of broken up lemon
tart mixed into whipped cream along with broken up meringue pieces, then a
layer of something with frozen raspberries and blueberries mixed in and topped
with whipped cream and sliced strawberries. It was so delicious!
About an hour after we
had eaten, my energy began to flag and “no-one” also had to get home so we
reminded the girls that we really did have to go and there were tears and a
little meltdown, I really wish I could live closer to see them more often and
maybe have them visit me. My current home is far too tiny to contain their
energy and there is no yard for them to play in.
When I eventually
packed up my things with the girls helping, I could feel my eyes wanting to
close and knew I would have to leave my daily crossword for another day.
Very wonderful story. You have a nice talent for writing. Wishing you the very best for 2026.
ReplyDeleteDVArtist; thank you. I hope 2026 is kind to you.
DeleteElsie whipped me with a larch branch before feeding me chocolate trifle and multiple peanuts soaked in Irish poteen. It was a surprise that there was no cheese and onion quiche. All I had done was to show disrespect to the flag of South Australia. From a crossword I completed just last year, I knew that it includes a piping shrike on a gold disc and a flock of those ****ing birds attacked me when I worked at The British Embassy in Sydney.
ReplyDeleteYorkshire Pudding; thanks for playing, this is funny. I don't think we have larch trees here, I will have to check and see what they look like.
DeleteThe food sounds good, River. So did your pizza that you made. I love when food lasts a bit. Tim still has pizza left for later, which is nice. Wishing you a yummy New Year!
ReplyDeleteThe Happy Whisk; Thank you. The food was good and there were plenty of leftovers to see them through the weekend without having to cook again. I love my home made pizzas, I add garlic granules to the dough when I make it for extra flavour. Wishing you a photographic year with yummy foods.
DeleteIt sounds like a beautiful Christmas Day visit. How sweet they had a stocking for you.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; it was a great day and the stocking was a big surprise 😀
DeleteWhat a lovely Christmas and do post sometime your crab quiche recipe!
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Wisewebwoman; it was a very nice day, though I tire faster than I used to. I will look up the recipe in my book and email it to you.
DeleteOh that is so lovely to write a story about your visit to family on Christmas Day.
ReplyDeleteAll sounds wonderful R.
Happy New Year and well done.
Margaret D; truly, that is all I could think of to write. Thank you. I hope 2026 is kind to you.
DeleteBitter-sweet. All I did was talk to my Brother via What´s App. Especially on weekends and holidays public services run "badly" everywhere, right? And my Brother is too lazy to come over (he has a car, his wife as well and I will not take Ingo´s - haven´t driven since 2018!).
ReplyDeleteA stocking with the letter "N", sweet! What was in it?
Iris; one thing in the stocking is in my post tomorrow, the rest was things to east, a small box of yummy macadamia shortbread biscuit, a peppermint candy cane and a tiny jar of jam. Your brother should come and see you for Christmas even if he only does it once.
DeleteI look forward to your post :-) And I gave up asking, inviting etc. - Sad as it is - German saying: "The bone no longer runs too the dog." I am the bone.
DeleteLovely tale from a good day. May your coming days be warm and gentle too.
ReplyDeleteCharlotte; thank you. The coming days will be gentle, but HOT rather than warm.
DeleteHehe, lucky you! We have snow, eeeek!
DeleteOf course the girls were excited. Not only was it Christmas, but you and No-One were there, too! You must have been very good for them to give you that stocking that was not stuffed with coal, heh, heh!
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