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
Next month's words will be supplied by messymimi on her blog
Charlotte's colour of the month is Ocean Twilight:
This week's words/prompts are:
1.concoction 2.premises 3.smoky 4.genuine 5.stronger 6.grease
Here is my story:
Hannah bounced through
the door of the premises with genuine joy on her face. “Dad!” she yelled, to be
heard over the sputtering motor of the car he was currently fixing.
Trevor turned to face
her, grabbing a clean rag to wipe the grease from his hands. ‘What’s got you so
happy love?” he asked.
“I think I found my
favourite subject at this new school,” she said happily. “Old Smoky, he’s our
science teacher, had us all make a new concoction today and as soon as we did,
we all had to vacate the room really quickly!"
"We made Hydrogen
Sulphide which stinks like rotten eggs but stronger and three girls asked
permission to go home and wash their hair and get fresh clothes!”
“I take it you discovered
chemistry,” said Trevor. “Why is the teacher called Old Smoky?” “Because he has
grey hair and mostly grey clothes the colour of smoke. His real name is Mr
Bowman.”
Not a good way to discover chemistry but it seems almost fun for Hannah.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely day.
lissa; I remember my science teacher did the same at our very first lesson, he said all the boys are probably itching to try this, so we'll get it out of the way, while all us girls asked to go outside instead, but we had to stay and do it. The smell was really awful.
DeleteKids do enjoy classes where they can have fun and makes messes, even if it’s just in a test tube.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; back in those days all boys of that age (11-13) wanted to learn to make stink gases, so our science teacher taught us at the very first lesson and then said anyone making it on the sly at the back of the class for the rest of the year would be given a fail grade. No one did, so they all passed.
DeleteA good story, R. Your imagination did well on this story using all the words. Well done.
ReplyDeleteMargaret D; thank you
DeleteOh, the joys of mixing liquids in Chemistry. Great story, Elsie - you captured Hannah's excitement exactly.
ReplyDeletejabblog; I remember very well the excitement of the boys who had heard about hydrogen sulphide from older brothers and couldn't wait to learn how to make it.
DeleteGreat story!!! Love it!
ReplyDeleteIris; thank you.
DeleteM'has fet recordar les meves classes de química i mira que ja ha passat gairebé mig segle.
ReplyDeleteMolt ben trobat!
salluna; it has been just over 60 years for me and I still remember, and was disappointed that we only had one chemistry class per week.
DeleteAdorei tua história e resolvi participar sempre que der:
ReplyDeleteA dce hoje aqui está:
https://chicaparticipa.blogspot.com/2026/03/entre-tintas.html
abraços, lindo fim de semana, chica
chica; welcome to drifting. I will come and read right away.
DeleteI am relieved that the teacher's name came from his coloring. Reading that he was the chemistry teacher, I imagined the worst! Some experiment gone wrong at a previous school.
ReplyDeleteVal; At first I was going to write that he smelled of smoke because he was a heavy smoker, but I decided to be kind.
DeleteDown on the beach, I drank a weird alcoholic concoction that had been mixed together by Elsie behind the premises of The Palais Hotel on Semaphore beachfront. The potent liquid had a smoky flavour and I know that she had added a glug of genuine Scotch whisky from the island of Islay. It was stronger than anyone could have imagined and had the viscosity of engine grease. Later, Andrew from Melbourne said that the colour of this lethal liquid was ocean twilight but Elsie said, " Bugger off Andrew. It's dark blue!"
ReplyDeleteYorkshire Pudding; thank you 😂 I do wish I had learned more chemistry, to be able to mix such concoctions, but we only had one class a week and that was my last year of school. I am wondering now if Andrew-from-Melbourne joined your tasting.
DeleteYes he was there wearing his Homer Simpson Bermuda shots , his orange string vest and his red "MAGA" baseball cap. Don't you remember?
DeleteI like it when people are happy.
ReplyDeleteDora; I like happy too, smiles and laughing are always good to see and hear.
Deletelol. Well told. Nothing like a classroom of farts. Love that some girls wanted to go home and get cleaned up. Hahahaha.
ReplyDeleteOh, I remember that stinky thing. All classes made it the same day - before a prolonged weekend so that the stench could dissipate before we returned to school again ;) We also made colour charnging liquids, and something that painted on a blackboard was invisible, but made small explosions whenever you tried to write on it. I liked chemistry.
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