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Happy Monday! I hope you all had a good weekend. Here’s your new limerick challenge: SLEIGH Last week’s prompt was CANDY. You came up with some limericks to entertain: Richmond Road: I was young, I was brash, I was randy To my girl I presented my candy But when I offered to teach Her tricks down
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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 a Writers Bureau student I’ve
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Happy new week. I hope you all had a good weekend. Ready for a limerick challenge? Your new word is CANDY Last week’s prompt was BORING. You came up with some great limericks: Richmond Road: Bob, at the cricket, was scoring But found the game endlessly boring At the end of the over He lay in
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Happy 1st December! The countdown is now officially on. But first a new limerick challenge. Your new word is BORING Last week’s prompt was SHOPPING. You came up with some hilarious limericks: Nicola Daly: I’ve still to do Christmas shopping And all the floors need mopping There’s the oven to clean And the windows to sheen
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I was fortunate to be gifted this beautiful book of poems by Bharul herself and loved every one of them. Here’s the blurb: This book is a heartfelt collection of poems that beautifully exploes the spectrum of human emotions – love, motherhood, faith, nature, and the quiet strength of relationships. With verses that range from
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I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Not many more until Christmas – eek! Anyway, let’s forget about that for now. Here’s a new limerick challenge. Your new word is SHOPPING Last week’s prompt was SCALE. You came up with some great limericks: Nicola Daly: When the old man drank whisky and ale He’d tell
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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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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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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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Happy new week. Here’s your fresh limerick challenge. Your word is LITTER Last week’s prompt was DUST. You came up with some thoughtful limericks: Nicola Daly: I thought I’d got it all sussed How to carve a fancy stone bust But my neighbours all woke And my chisel they broke And now my dreams of a
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