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  • Happy new week! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge to kick-start your Monday. Your new word is: PUDDLE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word COOK in it somewhere. You produced some great limericks: Keith Channing: I’ll do this by hook or by crook, One day, I will finish this book.…

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  • Oops!

    I somehow managed to get my days muddled and released two posts at the same time yesterday! So you might have missed my story challenge. In case you did, here it is again: Can you tell a story in 17 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: ANAGRAM VIOLIN CRUMB Last…

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  • It’s nearly the end of the week. Here’s a new story challenge to set you up for the weekend: Can you tell a story in 17 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: ANAGRAM VIOLIN CRUMB Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 14 words using the following words…

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  • Happy Monday! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge to kick-start your week. Your new word is: COOK Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SMART in it somewhere. You produced some witty limericks: Keith Channing: Smart people know stuff, it is true, More than me and, no doubt, more than you.…

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  • Can You Tell A Story In…

    It’s almost Friday. Here’s a new story challenge to set you up for the weekend: Can you tell a story in 14 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: FIELD MUG WEDDING Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 8 words using the following words in it somewhere: PHANTOM…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    Another church sign to make you chuckle:

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  • Happy new week! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge to kick-start your Monday. Your new word is: SMART Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word BRUSH in it somewhere. You produced some witty limericks: Keith Channing: Basil has quite a fine brush, Resplendent, hirsute and quite lush. Use this little ditty,…

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  • Can You Tell A Story In…

    I hope your week is going well. Here’s a new story challenge: Can you tell a story in 8 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: PHANTOM RESTAURANT Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 20 words using the following words in it somewhere: TOE FLAT GRANDMOTHER LETTUCE Here…

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  • Writing Prompts

    This week’s writing prompt is: TRAIN STATION What’s happening at the train station? Are annoying, crackly announcements being made over the tannoy? Are passengers hurrying along the platform, their shoes clacking? Is it a land train or the underground? Describe the smells – from a coffee shop perhaps or the feel of the hot air…

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  • Happy Monday! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge to kick-start your week. Your new word is: BRUSH Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word CHAIR in it somewhere. You produced some great limericks: Keith Channing: Chair-bound in the barber’s shop, Hating his choice of bebop. All the day long I hear…

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