Esther Chilton
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Here’s to a great week! Your new limerick challenge is as follows: HELL Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SALE in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces: Keith Edgar Channing: I went to the January sales,I followed the M4 from Wales.A nice day it was not,You know what I…
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I’m delighted to welcome writer Sharon Harvey back again. Here, she shares her writing journey with us: My writing journey began at a very early age when I could pick up a pen. I first started writing down my experiences of being bullied while at school, and then my late mum, the encourager of my…
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It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: CONTROL So can you tell a story in five words using the word CONTROL in it somewhere? Your word last week was DESSERT. Here are your DESSERT stories: Anil: Your dessert is so sweet. My dessert is not bitter!…
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It wasn’t until I was in my twenties that I first learned my great grandfather, Arnold John Deller, had been wine butler to the Royal Family – to Queen Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII, and her son, King George V. My grandmother, Joan, was a private woman and didn’t talk about herself or her…
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Here’s to a great week! Your new limerick challenge is as follows: SALE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SPROUT in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces: Keith Edgar Channing: A well-to-do farmer from BrusselsHad two little doggies – Jack Russells;After they’d eaten sproutsHe knew their whereaboutsBy the fragrance…
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Here’s to a great 2023!
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It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: DESSERT So can you tell a story in five words using the word DESSERT in it somewhere? Your word last week was STOCKING. Here are your STOCKING stories: Kim Smyth: No stockings this lonely year. Wearing stockings is a…
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It wasn’t until I was sorting out my bureau, ready for a house move, that I realised how many programmes I’d amassed over the years. Looking back, I think it’s a habit I picked up from my father. Right from when I was a little girl, wherever we went, whether it was a trip to…
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So, any ideas for New Year resolutions? Perhaps they’ll look something like this… Image credit: Free Daily Quotes
Esther Chilton 