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5 Day Challenge – First Draft
This is the final post of the Five Day Challenge, which Gill over at In Touch with Emma nominated me for. The rules are:
“Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph (and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge – I’m not doing that bit).”
This is very exciting – an early draft of the “rose by any other name” speech from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been discovered. As you can see, it’s very rough, and shows that even the great bard didn’t always get it right the first time.
No roses here (my front garden last week)
That which we call a rose
By any other name may not be a rose
As with ‘nother name
‘Tis reasonable to assume
May not be a rose at all
But some pretender flower
And may or may not smell as sweet
Depending ‘pon its genus. Forsooth.
A note in the margin shows the bard’s disgust at what he has just written:
Gadzooks! ‘Tis a paltry verse I hath writ. Needs work methinks, lest mine agent leteth me go, yea verily!
That’s it for the challenge! Normal service will now be resumed. And I don’t think you can libel someone who’s dead but just in case, this is all made up!
5 Day Challenge – Odd Jobs
Odd Jobs. No, not this guy.
Picture from 007james.com
This is Day Four of the Five Day Challenge, which Gill over at In Touch with Emma nominated me for. The rules are:
“Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph (and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge – I’m not doing that bit).”
I have two photos for you today.
Ever since I moved in, the grill in my cooker has been a bit iffy and finally it broke. Then a couple of weeks ago the oven broke as well, leaving only the hob functional. But you can’t cook a pizza on the hob :-(. So here is my new cooker. I’ve helpfully labelled the different sections.
(a) – Chilli heating section
(b) – Cheese grilling apparatus
(c) – Pizza cooking compartment
I also needed to fix one of the steps leading to my house. So armed with some quick-drying mortar and tools borrowed for here and there, I gave it a go. My first ever attempt at such a job! It’s not very neat, but my main aim was to make sure it was solid so I smeared the mortar everywhere.
Job done :-).
5 Day Challenge – Serenity
It’s Day Three of the five photos and stories in five days challenge, which Gill over at In Touch with Emma nominated me for. The rules are:
“Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph (and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge – I’m not doing that bit).”
A little Haiku (or Haiku-like poem) for today. This is another photo taken at Lydford Gorge.
From source to destination
Flow with serenity
Follow your calm
5 Day Challenge – DraliTips for Your Bathroom
Here I am with Day 2 of the Five Day challenge. Gill at In Touch With Emma nominated me, and the rules are:
“Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph (and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge – I’m not doing that bit).”
I’m also posting this in response to Marilyn’s challenge over at Serendipity, which is weekly and is also to post a story, or some words, accompanying a photo.
Today, DraliTips is proud to present some help on cleaning your bathroom. I have managed to take a fairly neutral picture of my bathroom, and it has just been cleaned after all!
- First, and most important, don’t leave it for months between cleans. It’s amazing how long it takes if you do that! Clean that sucker even when you don’t have your parents visiting.
- Once your shower curtain has achieved more than 50% mould cover, replace it. See my lovely new shower curtain? Nice.
- That hard-to-reach black mould above the shower? Leave it alone. You’ll only hurt yourself trying to reach it, and it’s perfectly harmless(a)!
- Before you start, be sure to don the appropriate protective gear. Gloves, goggles and an apron are a must. Some form of breathing apparatus is also recommended.
- Though it is tempting, do not use your toothbrush to clean the grouting between the tiles. It will make it taste funny! Use someone else’s instead.
- Above all, have fun! Remember, look after your bathroom and it will look after you.
(a) May not be perfectly harmless.
5 Day Challenge – Stairway To Heaven
Gill over at In Touch With Emma challenged me a few days ago to post a photo for five consecutive days and to write something to go along with it. Here is the blurb:
“Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge.”
I’m not going to nominate anyone (feel free to join in) but I will attempt the challenge. Five consecutive days? We shall see…
This picture was taken today at Lydford Gorge, in Devon. For Day 1 I’ll write a little story.
Stairway To Heaven
Paul Jeffries (recently deceased) looked at the glowing figure. The glowing figure looked back.
Paul Jeffries (recently deceased) looked down at his bullet-riddled recently deceased body. His bullet-riddled recently deceased body looked back sightlessly through milky eyes.
“So I’m dead then,” said Paul.
“Yup,” replied the glowing figure. “Looks that way.” He regarded Paul’s body. “Looks like it was painful.”
“Hurt like a bitch,” said Paul, shuddering his insubstantial shoulders at the memory. “Hey, are you smirking?”
“Um…” said the glowing figure, quickly covering its mouth with its hand.
“So, you’re an angel?” asked Paul. He couldn’t help noticing that the glowing figure’s eyes had a somewhat red glow to them.
“Um…” said the glowing figure, and quickly changed the subject. “Say, look at this!” He gesticulated and a stairway appeared. “It’s your Stairway to Heaven. Off you go!”
Paul regarded the Stairway suspiciously. “So, and I acknowledge that I may not wish to know the full answer to this question, if that’s a Stairway to Heaven, why is it going DOWN?”
“Um…” said the glowing figure.
Cee’s Which Way Challenge 2015 Week 25
I’ve not done this challenge before, but I went to St Nectan’s Glen a couple of days ago and it occurred to me that I have the perfect pictures. This is one of many fun challenges hosted by Cee, the goal being to take a photo featuring a path, road, bridge or whatever, in which it is the main focus.
I have many more photos of the actual glen, which I will post soon!
3 Quotes Day 3
Here is my final quote for the “three quotes in three days” challenge. I think we can all get behind this one. Thanks, Bill and Ted, and Party On Dudes!
3 Quotes Day 2
Here is my second “three quotes in three days” quote. I don’t really know any inspirational quotes, so here’s one of my favourites from one of my favourite authors.
This is from “Lords and Ladies”, by Terry Pratchett and describes the “Big Bang”. The image (which I’ve altered a little bit) is from bbc.co.uk.
3 Quotes Day 1
I have been challenged by The Storyteller’s Abode, A Smith’s World and Story Teller to post three quotes in three days! I’m also supposed to nominate three people each day, but I think everybody has already done it, and I’m never comfortable nominating people for things, so I won’t 🙂
Here is my first quote. It’s an old classic, spoken by one of the greatest philosophers of “a long time ago”, Master Yoda.
Luv and Hat
A little wee while ago, Anxious Mom over at Strong Enough to Break nominated me for this Love/Hate challenge. “Love” and “hate” are quite strong words so I’m toning it down a bit by using Sideshow Bob’s tattoos from The Simpsons (because they only have three fingers, you see).
Things I Luv
- Sunny early mornings with the smell of flowers and grass and such.
- My job. Well, maybe “luv” is too strong a word, but I don’t mind going, it’s a good job and I enjoy it. That’s more than many people can say.
- Reading great books. Lots and lots of books!
- Being all growed up so I can make my own decisions.
- Writing again after so long – years and years and years.
- My little car
- Afternoon naps
- Quiet walks out in The Nature
- My little house – mine, all mine bwahahaha! (And the bank’s.)
- Netflix, and its wealth of quality entertainment 🙂
Things I Hat
- Spiders
- Inconsiderate people.
- Computers answering phone calls when people should be answering phone calls.
- Traffic slowing down for no reason and then speeding up again and you never know why.
- Crowded places.
- Marketing cold calls. No, I don’t want any, thank you. Oh, you’re a computer.
- Changing my routine.
- Intolerant people.
- When people randomly waste stuff, like water or electricity or plastic bags.
- More spiders
I’m not going to nominate people, and I know many people have done this one already. Feel free to join in if you like!
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