limericks

  • Happy Monday. Here’s a new limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is CHEW The previous word was FIRST. Here are your limericks: Rall: she would have liked to come first but couldn’t control her strong thirst she drank so much water it blocked her aorta her confidence shattered did burst Aptivi’s Joyful Corner: a…

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  • Happy new week. Here’s a new limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is FIRST The previous word was JOG. Here are your limericks: K Morris Poet: A young man whose name was Hogg Was fond of a jolly good flog. His girlfriend Miss Lou Was fond of the shoe – As for me, I…

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  • I hope you all had a great weekend. Now it’s limerick time. Your word this week is JOG The previous word was EYES. Here are your limericks: Nicola Daly: I just couldn’t believe my eyes!Seeing a hippopotomus who flies!But he made a horrible splat!When he landed without a crash matAnd now we all know a hippo…

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  • Thank you for your patience while I was away at the writing summer school. I hope you’ve had a great week. My challenges are back, but please bear with me while I catch up. Your word this week is EYES The previous word was SHEET. Here are your limericks: Nicola Daly: Remember the witch from Carlisle?Her…

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  • Here’s a new limerick challenge for you. You have two weeks for this one as I’ll be away teaching at Swanwick Writing Summer School next week. Your word this week is SHEET Last week’s word was PUZZLE. Here are your limericks: Ruth Blogs Here: Words and Numbers Love to puzzle – word-searches I craveSimple crosswords sometimes…

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  • Here’s a new limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is PUZZLE Last week’s word was LAND. Here are your limericks: Nicola Daly: So excited about playing in a bandI thought I’d help the pilot to landOnly it backfired you seeNow we’re bobbing in the sea –We were meant to land, over there, on the…

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  • Here’s a new limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is LAND Last week’s word was WRECK. Here are your limericks: Nicola Daly: I didn’t half look a wreckBy the time I was half way through the trek‘A doddle’ll it’ll be!’He’d lied to meWhich is why he’s now floating in the beck! *beck is the…

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  • In the UK, we’re coping with our third heatwave. Hope you’re all managing to keep cool. Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your new word is WRECK Last week’s word was FAKE. Here are your limericks: Keith Edgar Channing: Far be it from me to forsakeA chance to relax by the lakeI won a free…

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  • Happy Monday. Here’s a new limerick challenge for you. Your new word is FAKE Last week’s word was WEED. Here are your limericks: Squirreljan: The mad old biddy from Bath was looking for funSo she called upon her hippy great-great-grandsonTo come to her at speedWith some cake and some weedFor a smoke, then a sleep, then…

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  • It’s limerick time. Your new word is WEED Last week’s word was TRAIN. Here are your limericks: Nicola Daly: ‘I’d love to catch a fast trainSip champagne and stare through the paneWatch the world fly byArrive by and by…’‘On Avanti*? Dream on, you’re insane..’ *Avanti is the company that runs the trains up here. It is…

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