• Guest Writer Spot

    It’s Friday and that must mean a new guest for my guest writer slot. This week I’m welcoming back Jean Harris. She first appeared in this slot a few weeks ago with her super piece, A Safe Place. She’s back with another piece of writing to make you smile: Green Fingers By Jean Harris Summer’s here

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  • It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s the latest story challenge: Can you tell a story in 50 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 23 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your entertaining stories: Christine Mallaband-Brown: The hero

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  • Writing Prompts

    This week’s writing prompt is: BEST DAY What’s been the best day in your life? The day you got married? Gave birth to your first child? Perhaps it was gaining a degree, going on a special holiday, moving into your dream home, or the day you got the all-clear from cancer. You may have had

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  • Funny Of The Week

    I’ve never seen a flamingo quite like that…

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  • Let’s get your Monday going with a new limerick challenge. Your word this week is: OLDER Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word TASTE in it somewhere. You came up with some amusing limericks: Trent’s World: There once was an ornery lad Who had no taste but bad So over the

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  • Guest Writer

    This week’s guest writer is the delightful Val Fish, whose blog is sexagenarianscribbler. She produces some super responses to my challenges and has a love of limericks. Here are a few limericks from her latest book: With his sermon about to begin The priest had to suppress a huge grin Cos just minutes ago Out

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  • It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s the latest story challenge: Can you tell a story in 23 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 47 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your super stories: Christine Mallaband-Brown: ‘We need

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  • Writing Prompts

    This week’s writing prompt is: TIME What does TIME mean to you? Good times, spent with family and friends? Always being pushed for time? Happy memories of times in the past? Or perhaps you think of the future and the times that will bring. It might be a timepiece itself that holds special significance. You

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  • Funny Of The Week

    This is one smart kid!

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  • I’m sorry I’ve not responded to everyone’s brilliant posts and responses to my challenges – the surgery is taking longer to recover from than I’d thought. So please bear with me. Your new weekly limerick challenge is TASTE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SAVE in it somewhere. You came up

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