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. 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 Hilary Melton-Butcher and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 1. paucity  2. inglenook  3. heft  4. yew  5. pergola  and/or:  1. greed  2. madness  3. myth  4. traveller  5. visualise Here is my story:  The traveller hefted his bulk into the corner seat of the inglenook , setting his briefcase on the seat beside him and reaching his hands towards the fire for some warmth. The window in the side wall looked out over a gravelled cour...

  Long, long ago, in days of yore...Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Drop in to Elephant's Child and have a look. Outside in the garden there are a few new critters: made from metal and bought at the local supermarket here are the two on the front of the board and the grasshopper on the back inside, up on the kitchen shelf is a metal owl that I found in a thrift shop and these two birds, one owl, one parrot (?) which I found in a Fremantle thrift shop when I visited my brother in 2013. Some of you have seen these before. there is an old farm truck up there and a kombi van too here are closer shots of the elephants, this wooden, articulated, bejewelled bea...

  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 Hilary Melton-Butcher and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. dredge  2. hedgerow  3. curmudgeonly  4. scruffy  5. pink  and/or:  1. disgruntled  2. plying  3. dolphins  4. sea-cave  5. hispid Here is my story: Clarissa sat back in the deck chair and took stock of her surroundings. She wasn’t used to being among people and certainly hadn’t wanted to come along on this outing, but nurse Roberta had talked her into it. “You’re goin...

  Hi everyone, Meg here. Mum won the bid for my sister! it was easy really, no one else put a bid in the box.  She's coming to live with us and should arrive in the middle of next week.  Mum is going to look around in thrift shops and see if there is a bed for us, if there isn't anything suitable, she is going to make sleeping bags for us.  I have to go and check through all my clothes now, I want to decide what Gillian will wear on her first day. She doesn't even have shoes! 😀😀💖

  Chapter Two By the end of the week, Grandpa and the kids had all got used to each other, even Chrissie knowing that Grandpa only looked grumpy and was really an old softy. She loved watching him milk the cows and often rested her head against his shoulder as he worked. When the milking was done he would dip a clean cup into the fresh milk and give it to her, before setting the milk aside in the cool room so the cream would rise to the top.   The older girls loved spending time in the kitchen with Grandma Marie, she would tell them stories about the goings on in the town, just like any small town there was plenty of gossip to go around. They were learning to cook and knit while the chatter was going on; the best times were when Grandma would come home and start with, “you wouldn’t believe the fiasco in Topper’s Grocery this morning,” and the story would continue with much hand waving and apron flapping as Grandma acted out how, “that Joanie Wells made such a fuss over an...

 Long, long ago, in days of yore...Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Drop in to Elephant's Child and have a look. Today I have magpies for you, but first, Meg: this is mum's old camera, I can't even lift it, but mum used to carry it around with her for hours at a time. She took it to the beach a lot. I've never been to a beach. Mum says we will go one day when the sun isn't hot enough to burn us to a crisp. She is going to show me how to make a sand castle. this is my kitchen, that's the total width (stretched arms can touch both wall and sink) and on the shelf above is my collection of elephants. And a few other things. The white ceramic bak...

  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 Alex J. Cavanaugh and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. guacamole  2. ninja  3. lollygag  4. malarkey  5. skedaddle  6. piffle  and/or:  1. berserk  2. earwig  3. fiasco  4. gazebo  5. huzzah  6. nitwit  7. thingamajig  8. pandemonium As usual I've gotten a bit carried away, so here is Chapter One using only the first six words, while I work on Chapter Two. The children huddled together in the waiting room of...