FF – Insulation
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, the 100 word story challenge hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by long-standing FF member Sandra Crook.
To read this week’s other stories, click on the blue froggy.

Copyright Sandra Crook
“It’s an eyesore!” some exclaimed.
“A pre-Raphaelite-modernesque statement of individuality and form!” declared others, brazenly inventing art terms on the fly.
“Is it paint? Mosaic tiles?” wondered yet more.
“It’s lovely and warm and cosy,” the owner muttered, largely to himself because nobody else was listening.
Then it rained. It rained and rained and rained. And the building creaked and groaned and creaked and groaned some more. And then it fell down.
Because, you see, while a knitted woollen tea cosy is just the thing for keeping your favourite beverage warm, it’s no good on a house.
You’ve no sense of romantic history, you know that? 🙂 🙂
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Ha ha!
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Romantic history pah 🙂
It is a very pretty roof, though.
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I’m smiling! Love the thought of this.
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I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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No sense of romantic history, but great fun
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I’m glad you liked it!
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LOL…great way to end this!
I certainly needed a laugh today.
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I’m glad I could oblige 🙂
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Dear Ali,
No romantic sense perhaps, but a wicked sense of humor. Thanks for the laughs on a day when there doesn’t seem to be much to laugh about.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I’m afraid I have no sense of the romantic at all 😦
I’ve been trying hard to do funny stories after my recent run of dark ones, so I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Ali
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Hats off to your sense of humour, Ali 😀
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Haha laugh out loud funny! Excellent 🙂
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Thanks! I admit having a giggle myself while I was editing it 🙂
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Definitely a guffaw from me!
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Yay, thanks!
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The reverse of what I thought, the beauty is in the twist. Funny and nicely played.
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Thanks, I like a little twist or surprise at the end! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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I love it! Very amusing.
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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I’ll bet that thing could soak up a lot of rain, though. It just needs wrung out every hour or so…
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That’s the bit he forgot about – the wringing out…
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Smiles! Loved that one.
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Hilarious! I can’t decide is the funniest; ‘pre-Raphaelite-modernesque statement of individuality and form’ or imagining someone knitting a gigantic tea cosy 😀
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Years to knit, minutes to destroy his house…
I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for the laugh! I truly enjoyed this.
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You’re very welcome, I’m glad you liked it!
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Oh dear… LOL this is so you, Ali 😀
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The silly humour is back 🙂
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That was a hilarious ending! And since it’s been so soggy here, I can see how a giant tea cozy could get heavy enough to make a house come tumbling down. Totally believable story! 😀
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Yeah, it’s been chucking down here for the last couple of days too. I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Hahahaha…a giant knitted tea cosy as a roof! Ali the Comedian has got his groove back after a long foray into dark writing. 😁
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I wonder how long the humour groove will last? I’m glad you liked my story 🙂
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Mal sehen, wie lange es dauert. ☺
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🙂
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That’s a really BIG tea cosy! Really huge 🙂
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And very heavy when waterlogged 🙂
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Great!
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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Awesome! So funny and surely illustrates the vagaries of human nature!
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It take all types! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Love your title too!
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Thanks 🙂
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Funny and as always creative.
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Hehehehe. So good to see you have your funny back. I love the art terminology on-the-fly. Great story.
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I’m struggling back 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Ha ha! I appreciate the laugh, glad to see you went funny today. But what is everyone talking about with “romantic history”? Am I suppose to recognize that particular roof? (Because obviously I don’t). Please educate me!
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I dunno. Some foreign roof 🙂
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LOL! You hit the nail on its head! It does look like a knitted tea cozy!
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That was the first thing I saw so I was determined to make a story out of it 🙂
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Hahaha! Good job!
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Thanks 🙂
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This made me smile.
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I’m glad 🙂
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Very amusing, Ali! Using a tea cosy for the roof was not the most intelligent of decisions. 🙂
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It must have taken ages to knit, too 🙂
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It does look like one.
Hehehehe!
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Everything is worth at least one try … everything being relatively positive things.
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Maybe this shouldn’t have been tried though, in hindsight.
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It was the first thing I thought when I saw it 🙂
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i guess they enjoyed it while it lasted. what more could they ask? 🙂
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Yes, they got a couple of warm and cosy months out if it!
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MOL…I know where that knitted tea head came from…MOL 😀 Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend 🙂 ❤
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A happy weekend to you too, LB 🙂
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Such a great story, this is something my mom would make, she loved knitting.
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Thanks! My mum used to knit a lot too, as did my granny.
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There you go, Ali. A funny story without gallows humor or death (unless someone was under the tea cosy gazebo when it fell). It’s a good one; thanks for the laugh at a time when laughter is so needed!
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Fortunately the owner was out at the shops at the time. So no-one died, yay!
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Haha… do love a spot of yarn bombing/ wool graffiti😄
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Ha, I’d forgotten about that, I remember pictures in the news. This is taking it to extremes 🙂
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So funny! 🙂 A perfect response to the picture 🙂
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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That’s great, very amusing. It reminds me of when we were kids, my mum knitted my little sisters bikinis. You can imagine what happened when they got waterlogged and my sisters started walking back up the beach.
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Ha, oh no 🙂
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A fun story and very apt for the picture. The speculations of others are great and what happened to the house after the rain is so funny. 🙂
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He didn’t really think things through… 🙂
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I think you caught the snag in many fine designs there… alas.
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There’s always something you forget to factor in…
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A giant tea cosy! At least it stimulated lots of intellectual conversation while it remained. Very funny story.
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Thanks! Yes, people came from miles around to “admire” it 🙂
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How lovely. He made a hat for his house. Hilarious, Ali. A great imagination and good writing. 😀 — Suzanne
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A shame it wasn’t waterproof 🙂
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