Sharing My World 2016 Week 31
Here is my weekly post for Cee’s Share Your World.
What is your favourite part of the town/city you live in. And what Country do you live in?
I live in Cornwall, a county in England, which is part of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), which is part of the United Kingdom (GB and Northern Ireland).
I live in a very small village. I don’t really know my favourite part. My little house, maybe?
Would you rather wear clown shoes every day or a clown wig every day?
No. No clown anythings for me thank you very much.
If I had to and it was every day it would have to be the hot itchy wig. How could I drive to work wearing clown shoes?
Which way does the toilet paper roll go? Over or under?
Over, of course! The majority of people are “over” people. Also, although it was never explicitly mentioned, I refer you to Seth Wheeler’s original toilet roll holder patent. “Over”, thank you very much.
Picture via cnet.com, but since it’s a patent I’m assuming it’s public domain
What do you do to make a living or during the day? If you are retired what mostly occupies your day? Or if you are a student what are you studying?
I work in IT as a “System Architect“. I basically combine hardware, software, databases and so on to create a working system. I was doing the job for a year or so before it was made official a couple of weeks ago and I got the title 🙂
Exciting, no?
FF – True Love
Here is my story for this week’s Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This is another rerun, this week requested by C. E. Ayr and the photo was contributed back in May 2013 by Ted Strutz.
This was a couple of months before my time, so I have written a story from my head! Click on the blue froggy for this week’s other stories.
Copyright Ted Strutz
“Wow, sweetie, look at this place, isn’t it great?”
“For sure! Cosy, too. A real family business. Lovely place.”
“Can I get a glass of red, babes?”
“Of course, darling. But remember, eyes on the prize.”
“I know, I know. Cash from the till, safe in the back room.”
“Exactly. Once we’re done here, where would you like to go next, my love?”
“Ooh, shoe shopping, please. The owner’s blood is all over my boots.”
“What did I tell you earlier?”
“Um, never aim for the neck?”
“Correct! You got a real spurter there.”
“Ha, clumsy me! Love you!”
“Love you too.”
Limerick Challenge – Friendship
Here is my limerick for Mind And Life Matters’ limerick challenge. This week the topic is “friendship”, and we can write a limerick about a friendship with any person, animal or thing!
When I read that I knew what to write about and had it written within a couple of minutes :-).
To read this week’s other entries click on the blue froggy.
Sharing My World 2016 Week 30
Here is my post for Cee’s Share Your World series.
Do you prefer a bath or shower?
A shower. A bath sounds great in principle and it starts out great, but after a while you either stay in too long and you end up in lukewarm water and looking like a prune or it’s too hot and you end up all sweaty. Or perhaps I’m doing it wrong.
Plus a bath uses an immense amount of heated water and I know from personal experience that switching from showers to a bath increases your water bill by an insane amount.
If you had an unlimited shopping spree at only one store, which one would you choose? Why?
An Amazon distribution warehouse sounds good. I guess that counts as a “store” as they store stuff there, but if I choose to translate “store” as shop, possibly not :-(. How about somewhere that sells really expensive cars? No?
You’ve gotta give me one of them, so I’ll take Amazon. They sell everything. I’ll stock up on the best of the best!
If you could be one age for the rest of your life, what age would that be?
Early thirties, I think. That’s pre-aches and pains, but old enough to be all sorted out and for people to take me seriously as all grown up 🙂
List at least five movies that cheer you up.
That’ll be films that make me suddenly laugh out loud or feel-good films
- Expendables 2 (great cameos, loads of people getting shot)
- Planet Terror (horde of zombies getting chopped to bits by a helicopter rotor)
- Die Hard (the ultimate Christmas film)
- From Dusk Til Dawn (because, vampires)
- Starship Troopers (kill the bugs!)
- Aliens (kill the bugs!)
- Star Wars eps 4, 5 and 6
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
Last week at work I got a promotion! Now I’m a “Systems Architect“. I’m gonna architect the hell out’a this job. Next week I’m looking forward to sampling my new purchases. Death or glory awaits!
Limerick Challenge – Antonyms
Here is my limerick for Mind And Life Matters’ limerick challenge. This week it’s all about antonyms, so at least one of our lines must contain antonyms. To read all the other entries, click on the blue froggy!
I don’t know my ups from my downs
Nor even my smiles from my frowns
But there’s one thing I know
(It’s a bit silly, though)
I’m horribly frightened of clowns.
FF – Not Any More
Here is my rerun post for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s rerun was suggested by Kent Bonham and the photo was contributed by Janet Webb.
I first wrote this in 2013 but I’ve fiddled with it a tiny bit here.
To read this week’s other stories click on the blue froggy.
“Hey Dad, what’s up with Bert, all alone over there?”
“He’s sulking. He doesn’t like the wet stuff. He’s worried he’ll rust.”
“Where did all the flesh-things go? Did they rust?”
“Maybe. Or maybe they melted. They never looked very hardy to me.”
“Where did all the wet stuff come from?”
“Full of questions today, aren’t you? I heard it used to be solid and far away. Then everything warmed up and now it’s all wet and it’s everywhere.”
“So why are we here, Dad? Do we have a purpose?”
“Not any more, son. Not any more.”
Sharing My World 2016 Week 29
Here is my post for Cee’s Share Your World. It didn’t occur to me that we’re over half way through the year until I saw the week number!
What is the perfect pizza?
I don’t eat out much so I’m going with mine! Now, this isn’t the perfect pizza. It started out like this:
Evil Dr. Zog’s hidden volcano lair.
And ended up like this:
Yum
It was my first attempt and was too thick and had too much topping. I have since refined the process – last night’s was just right! As long as there is cheese, pepperoni and chorizo, that’s the main thing 🙂
What is your favourite time of day?
I’m most awake in the mornings, but I don’t really have a favourite time of day. It also depends on the day. Weekday? Weekend? Late afternoon on a weekend is great, but not on a weekday. I really start to flag around 3pm at work 😦
Show us two of your favourite photographs. The photos can be from anytime in your life span. Explain why they are your favourite.
There are some lovely photos of me with my (still a) toddler godson, and those are ones I look back on fondly. However, I haven’t asked his parents for permission to put them public, so here are couple of my favourite scenes.
On the way to St. Nectan’s Glen, Cornwall
St. Nectan’s Glen, Cornwall
Complete this sentence: I’m looking forward to…
… nothing really. I just take life as it comes, day by day. I like it better that way.
Limerick Challenge – Time Travel
Here is a limerick I’ve written for Mind and Life Matters’ limerick challenge. This week’s prompt is “Time Travel“. To read this week’s other limericks, click on the blue froggy.
I had to cheat a bit by removing a couple of letters to make it scan properly 🙂
Trav’lling in time can be great
Though dangerous, ‘specially of late
If you travel too long
It can all go quite wrong
Then much worse than death is your fate!
FF – Dangerous Waters
Here is my almost duplicate post for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. It’s a rerun from September 2013 and the photo was contributed by Jan Wayne Fields.
Originally I managed to write the word “beast” about 10 times so I’ve had a go at sorting that. I was going to write something about those massive giraffes on the horizon but Elder Scrolls Online won’t play itself. Well, actually it will, but without me 😦 And I’ve been horribly busy at work so the reruns have come at a good time. A few people who are still around read it last time – feel free to reuse your comment!
To read this week’s other stories, click on the blue froggy.
Photo copyright Jan Wayne Fields
The little boat tossed on the choppy waters of the bay as Jedrik demonstrated a simple reef knot to his grandson. The young lad watched entranced as the old man’s gnarled fingers once again worked their magic.
Scant yards away the shark, lost and hungry after a long journey through unknown waters, tracked the large beast. It had broken such creatures before. Though hard and tasteless on the outside, it knew that they always contained tasty morsels of flesh within. It had only to break the shell.
The shark altered its course towards the boat and increased speed.
Sharing My World 2016 Week 28
Here is my post for Cee’s Share Your World. This week’s questions were supplied by Emilio.
What is your earliest memory?
Memories are funny things. Sometimes I have a memory only to discover by various means that it never actually happened, or at least not the way I remember.
That said, I think my earliest memories are from around age 3/4/5. They’re from a house we moved out of when I was 5 so I know it was around then. Just vague snippets of my brother’s birthday and waiting for his name to be mentioned on the TV programme “Gus Honeybun’s Magic Birthdays” (Gus was a puppet who would do a handstand or whatever the person who wrote in asked for).
What was the last photo you took with your phone?
Upon checking it’s the picture of the cake I baked which I already posted here, so here’s the second-last picture I took (for my Instagram feed).
So… how do I get up in the cockpit then? Ladder? Anyone?
Have you ever danced in the rain?
I don’t dance. It’s better for everyone that way.
What is the longest you have gone without sleep?
While doing my PhD I pulled a few all-nighters in the lab, so I guess that would be around 30 hours or so. We had an experiment which needed constant attention and readings taken every 45 minutes or so as we gradually raised the temperature from -200C to 80C.
That’s put to shame by the 42 hours I went without food a couple of years ago. I just never got round to eating. Didn’t do me any harm!
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