• Funny Of The Week

    Perhaps this isn’t the best designed packaging…

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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – SHOWER Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was PLANT. Keith Channing: Pansies, or so I am told, Live in places you may think too cold. Always in…

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  • Many of you are familiar with the wonderful Carrot Ranch contests. I’d like to share this very special one with you and encourage you to enter: Sue Vincent is one of those special bloggers that inspires people all over the world. Readers have long been galvanized by her posts about mythology, about ancient ruins and…

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  • Many of you will have already seen my daughter Charlotte’s creative skills – she designed the covers for my two books, A Walk in the Woods and Publication Guaranteed (Well, Almost!). She’s currently working on the cover for my next book of short stories (due for release later this year). As well as being a…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is PILLS. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word PILLS in it somewhere? Here are your BISCUIT stories from last week: Sue Vincent: The diet? I baked biscuits… Ruth: Ooh, a biscuit – yes please! Ritu: Rich…

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  • A New Friend Part Two

    For part one, click here. Minutes, perhaps hours, passed. Laura awoke to a dull shroud hanging over the room. The half moon shone a shining light on the bed, shadows dancing in the corner and shapes bouncing on the ceiling. Tap, tap! She swivelled round at the knock on the door. ‘There’s someone to see…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    So, not in fact grapes then?

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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – PLANT Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was HAUNT. Keith Channing: How often have you seen a ghost? Asked Marvin, our affable host. Until we convene No-one…

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  • A Poem For Friday

    Finding God My old school recently held a special bash, Class of ’83 was on the sash, All welcome, the banner read, “I’m not going to that,” I said. But my old pal persuaded me to go, She said, “It’ll be great, you can’t say no! We’ll see if Chris is still a catch, And…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is BISCUIT. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word BISCUIT in it somewhere? Here are your SHY stories from last week: Ritu: Don’t be shy, it’s fine… Gotta love a shy guy. Christine Mallaband-Brown: She was shy…

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