• Here’s to a great week! Your new limerick challenge is as follows: SCONE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word HELL in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces: Keith Edgar Channing: No words can describe the foul smell Of a hermit crab, dead in its shell. If you find one…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: MOON So can you tell a story in five words using the word MOON in it somewhere? Your word last week was CONTROL. Here are your CONTROL stories: EDC Writing: In control, with her, unlikely. Kim Smyth: I lost…

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  • A Trip Down Memory Lane

    Keith Chegwin, affectionately known as Cheggers, was a big part of my childhood – growing up in the 70s and 80s, I could be found clued to Multicoloured Swap Shop, starring both him and Noel Edmonds, and Cheggers Plays Pop. When he died on December 11th 2017, I felt a tug of sadness. I thought…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    I think this guy will be fighting the hordes of buyers off…

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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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  • Wine For The Royals

    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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  • Funny Of The Week

    A furry Trump…? Photo credit: Pupperish

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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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