Esther Chilton
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Happy Monday. I can’t believe we’re edging towards the middle of May already. Anyway, have a great week. Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is: DAD Last week’s prompt was SNITCH. You came up with some super limericks: Nicola Daly: ‘There’s a girl in my class who’s a snitch,’ Said Wenda…
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My new series features some of my favourite holiday destinations. Last week we visited Bournemouth in England. This week, we’re going overseas to Dubai: For two years a friend of mine had been urging me to visit her in Dubai, where she was working as a teacher. But I have to admit I really wasn’t…
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It’s Thursday and that means story time. How many words am I giving you this week? Here goes… Can you tell a story in 31 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 18 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your amusing…
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My partner, Graeme Cumming, is also a writer and his first crime novel is coming out soon. He’s currently working on a blurb. He’s come up with five, but isn’t sure which one he likes. So he’s looking for some help in choosing one. Which one do you like best? Blurb 1 Stopping a sex…
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Whenever I’m feeling stressed or anxious, I think of my special place – a place where I was happy and relaxed and at peace with the world. And where is that place? It’s under a tree – a tree I first sat under when I was five years old. That’s nearly fifty years ago now,…
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An inventive one to make you chuckle:
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Happy new week and for those of you in the UK, happy bank holiday! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is: SNITCH Last week’s prompt was BEEP. You came up with some fabulous limericks: Tony: A flash in the night, a beating heart of steel, a tiny call between two worlds,…
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I’m now moving on from my music series and I’m going to revisit some of my favourite holiday destinations. The first in the series is somewhere I fell in love with at the age of four – Bournemouth: Bournemouth in Dorset has always been my favourite seaside town. When I was growing up, Mum and…
Esther Chilton 