• Funny Of The Week

    I proudly give you the snail-cat!

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  • Happy start of the week. I hope you have a great Monday. Here’s a new limerick challenge. Your word is SCALE Last week’s prompt was SNACKS. You came up with some hilarious limericks: Nicola Daly: Wielding my giant axe Makes me hungry for chocolatey snacks But two becomes four And I eat more and more And

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  • Many of you follow Nicole Sara’s beautiful blog Starry Steps and enjoy her poems. She really has a gift for creating stunning lines. I recently finished her collection of poems – Rhyming Dreams. Here’s the blurb: Rhyming Dreams is an enchanting and engaging collection of poems about the heart’s winding journey through deep wistful longing

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    If you’d like to be included in this slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great. All I ask is that there’s nothing offensive. My guest this week is here for the first time.

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  • Can You Tell A Story In…

    Here’s your new Thursday story challenge: Can you tell a story in 61 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 77 words using the following seven words in it somewhere: Here are your hilarious stories: Nicola Daly: So, this year I’m finding costumes for Madame

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  • Writing Prompts

    Your writing prompt this week is FISH You may think of physical fish, swimming in the sea, or being part of a delicious meal. But it’s another word with multiple meanings. We sometimes use it to refer to a person who is a little strange, seeing them as ‘an odd fish’. It can be used

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  • Funny Of The Week

    I’ve seen this sign a few times online, but when I saw it in person it still made me smile.

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  • Happy Monday to you all. Here’s a new limerick challenge. Your word is SNACKS Last week’s prompt was LITTER. You came up with some thoughtful limericks: Nicola Daly: My old gran loved to bedazzle with glitter She was also a bit of a knitter She made jumpers galore Until we shouted ‘No more! We’d prefer you

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  • Guest Writer Spot Extra

    I’ve snuck an extra guest writer in this week. Talented poet Nicole Sara will be known to many of you from her blog Starry Steps. Her brand new poetry collection is coming out tomorrow! Here’s the blurb: The Blues and the Beautiful is a luminous collection of poems celebrating life and love in all its

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    If you’d like to be included in this slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great. All I ask is that there’s nothing offensive. My guest writer this week is a lovely lady I’ve

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