Sharing My World 2016 Week 22 Holiday Edition
Here is my post for Cee’s Share Your World. This is a special holiday edition as in America last Monday there was a holiday called “Memorial Day” in tribute to the men and women who have died serving in the armed forces.
We in the UK also had a holiday on that day, however it was late Spring bank holiday.
Every country in the world has lost men and women in some kind of Armed Forces. When does your country celebrate or mourn their deaths?
In the UK this day falls on the nearest Sunday to November 11th. This is also true of the British Commonwealth, which is apparently now called the “Commonwealth of Nations” (who knew it had changed its name?).
Also, on 11th November at 11am, the nation observes two minutes of silence (this includes media). At work, everyone who isn’t already on the phone switches to “do not disturb” and we use the silence on the radio to time it. The timing is due to the signing of the armistice at the end of the First World War (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).
It is common for people to buy and wear little paper poppies, which I imagine are symbolic of the poppy fields of France (poppies grew over some of the biggest battlefields).
What is your favourite holiday or holidays?
Crizzmuzz! I don’t like the three month build-up – I’m fed up with it by the end of November – but I like the growing excitement, the day spent with my parents, wrapping presents and watching the traditional Christmas film “Die Hard” the night before.
My Christmas jumper, modelled by me!
My high quality 100 foot Christmas tree flown in specially from Norway
How do you celebrate that holiday?
I’ve pretty much covered this in the previous question. I should learn to read ahead!
Limerick Challenge – Poor Dwight
Here is a limerick I wrote for Mind and Life Matters’ limerick challenge! The prompt word for this week is “colour” (well, “color” actually).
I’ve pushed it a bit this time. I had to use “coder” because “programmer” has too many syllables (still a valid word but less frequently used perhaps) and I’ve assumed that a self-aware robot might reasonably regard said coder to be their mother. Ahem :-).
Click on the blue froggy to see this week’s other limericks!
There once was a robot called Dwight
Who saw life in stark black and white
When a coder, his “mother”
Switched his firmware to colour
His diodes blew up from the fright!
FF – Rustic Real Estate
Here is my post for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Piya Singh and I believe it is from a few years ago.
To read the other stories, click on the blue froggy.
Copyright Piya Singh
“How are we gonna sell this?”
“I’ve offloaded worse.”
“It took us three hours to get here – on foot. There’s no heating, no plumbing and no electricity. Hell, it doesn’t even have interior walls.”
“Ah, but if you turn the wheel at the front the whole cottage rotates, so you always get the sun! Very forward-thinking, Victorian inventors.”
“Yeah, pretty awesome, but a wheel requiring twenty people to shift?”
“Details, details…”
Picturesque period property, privacy guaranteed. Open-plan, “olde worlde” feel, benefits from all-day sunshine via unique rotational architecture. Ideal for “back to nature” commune of twenty plus. £750,000 o.n.o.
Sharing My World 2016 Week 21
Here is my post for Cee’s Share Your World.
What is your favourite go to beverage? Water, coffee, tea, coke, soda (non-alcoholic)
Fizzy lemonade, Coke and fizzy water with lime cordial (all nicely chilled!).
Mmmm. Nearly no calories of tasty refreshment.
I just checked and I currently have over 30 litres of lemonade in the house. I wouldn’t want to run out.
Can you change a car tyre?
Well, probably. I had to do it a couple of times with a car I had years and years ago. The biggest mistake I make is jacking it up before loosening the wheel. I’d just have to find the tools – I assume they’re under the floor in the boot – and work out where the jack goes. Common with many cars these days, I have a “temporary spare” – a small, low-speed wheel designed to get you to a garage.
On the other hand, I might just call the AA (Automobile Association). I pay them enough and I haven’t called them out for well over a decade.
Are you a listener or talker?
Definitely a listener. I don’t do small talk, and I won’t talk in a group until I’ve at least got “the lay of the land” – evaluated personalities and so on.
Would you rather have no internet or no cell phone?
Whaaaat? Whaaaat? Noooo! I don’t like the sound of this situation at all. I guess if I choose “no internet” I won’t be able to get it on my mobile phone either, which would reduce it to “just a phone”. I rarely use that function!
So a choose… (drum roll)… no mobile phone!
FF – The Accidental Plagiarist
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week she also supplied the photo!
To read the other stories for this week, click on the blue froggy.
“The waves, with gentle susurration speak to me, as angels’ voices speak of peace…”
“You’re on a poetry kick again? It’s rubbish.”
“It’s for a poetry competition.”
“Seriously, it’s mindless pap.”
“Haters gonna hate.”
“Try again.”
“Okay. Water, water, everywhere and all the boards did shrink…”
“That’s better, but it sounds kinda familiar.”
“It’s cool. And then… Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. I’m sending it.”
(click!)
“I’m sure I’ve heard it somewhere before. We don’t want a repeat of the last competition you entered. How did it go again?”
“I wandered lonely as a cloud…”
Our poet’s “inspiration”:
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (often known as “Daffodils”), William Wordsworth, 1804-ish
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, Iron Maiden 1984 🙂 heh heh, or Samuel Taylor Coleridge if your prefer, 1797/8
Sharing My World 2016 Week 20
Here is my post for Cee’s Share Your World. Short and sweet this week :-).
When do you feel most connected with others?
Tricky one that. I’m not a “connecting” sort of person, as a rule. There was one memorable occasion a couple of years ago when Dad and I went on a little trip back to his roots. He showed me around the tiny village where he grew up (just a collection of cottages, really), and we had a lovely pub lunch.
What daily habit would you like to introduce to your life?
I’d like to introduce a bit of exercise. A little walk would be good. Maybe if I got up half an hour earlier…
What one mini-little-adventure would you like to have in the coming week?
Ooh, I don’t think I would like an sort of adventure, mini or otherwise. I’m a creature of habit, me.
List things or events that changed your Life: It could be as simple as a book or meeting a certain person?
- Going to university
- Working in Germany
- Starting a new life and career
- Buying my little house
FF – The Worst Idea Ever
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo comes courtesy of J Hardy Carroll.
I had problems thinking of a story for this one, so I’ve gone full silly. I apologise in advance, I’m not in the mood for writing thoughtful or sombre this evening :-).
To read this week’s other stories, click on the blue froggy.
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Limerick Challenge – Friday 13th
Here is a little Limerick I wrote for Mind and Life Matters’ Limerick challenge. This week the prompt is “Friday 13th”. In her own words:
“…your limerick must be based on Superstition or a Superstitious belief or something Supernatural. It can be scary, spooky, funny, sarcastic, satire anything you like so long as it follows the theme.”
To read the other fun Limericks, click on the blue froggy!
If a mirror broke Max made no fuss
“Superstition is nothing to us!”
A black cat crossed his path
He just stood there and laughed
Seconds later was hit by a bus.
Sharing My World 2016 Week 19
Here is my post for Cee’s Share Your World.
You win a pet monkey but this isn’t just any old monkey. It can do one trick for you whenever you want from getting a pop out of the fridge to washing your hair. What would be the trick?
Ooh, ohh, a helper monkey! Here he is, ready for action.
Ready for action
I think maybe he should be tasked to the job of dusting, as this is the (negative) imprint he made on the shelf when I removed him for his photo op.
Monkey imprint
Or possibly he should be tasked to cooking after last week’s little accident. Note to self: never put eggs on to boil and then go off to play Fallout 4 on the PS4. Because after 3 hours they explode.
Oops
What caring thing are you going to do for yourself today?
Nothing,really. Just a normal Sunday.
What colour do you feel most comfortable wearing?
Blue. And while it’s not really a colour, rather the lack thereof, black. Very occasionally I’ll wear something with a splash of some other colour on it, usually if it’s a lovely sunny day.
Complete this sentence: When I travel I love to…
… come home :-). It’s nice sometimes to visit somewhere new but it’s always nice to come home.
FF – First Contact
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers hosted by Rochelle. Today’s photo was contributed by C.E. Ayr.
I saw a spaceship. Did anyone else see a spaceship?
To read this week’s other stories, click on the blue froggy.
The cooling stardrive glowed bright blue as the Zorkan mothership descended to Earth. It dropped majestically, nestling at last next to the river, a stream of blood flowing from its underbelly as some 120 people were inadvertently crushed beneath. A blisteringly loud voice boomed a message of hope…
“We come in peace!”
… rupturing 940 eardrums and resulting in seven million broken windows and 320 fatal car accidents.
Realising the harm it had caused the ship departed, its flaming take-off rockets accidentally incinerating 9,325 citizens. Most horrifying of all were the pamphlets they dropped upon leaving:
“Sorry about that. We’ll be back :-).”
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