John Mackie has added a poll to his Creative Writing Competition. Good on ya’, JM, looks like fun.
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The answer was Richard Jaeckel. It was only a difficult question if you didn’t know the answer. Knowing the answer gave me full bragging rights. My son looked at me with a mixture of awe and contempt. I milked the silence for all it was worth and then compounded his misery. Continue reading “No gesture out of place”
Only a couple of days to go and we have five entries. You still have time.
A while, ago, one of us suggested that it might be a nice idea to vote on the stories. I’ve been playing around with the poll facility in WordPress and I’m minded to try having a readers’ vote on the entries. I really like Bearsy’s ‘Packing Room’ prize as a concept and I personally see no harm in everybody else sticking in their oars as well. I could, of course, be wrong.
So, as an experiment, I’m trying to set a poll up. It might go horribly wrong and it won’t matter if it does because I still intend to select the winner myself , whatever the result of said poll.
Rules:
A work of whatever length you wish and in whatever genre you choose on the theme of looking forward or looking back.
Prescribed words: ‘party’, ‘permanent’ and ‘accident’.
Not essential if you choose not to work them into your effort but I will give serious weight to their creative use in the event of a tie.
Deadline: 12 midnight GMT on 31st January 2011.
Entries to Date – please click on the author’s name to read their entry
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth
Goodnight everyone, sleep well.
It is bitterly cold out there today. Only -1 up to 2°C, so not as cold as it was leading up to Christmas – but the wind is biting.There’s a thick layer of ice on my wheelbarrow which filled up with water a little while a go. Spring seems so far off… so I was very pleased to snap some Spring like images this afternoon. They are a little dull as I arrived home from work after the sun had hidden itself again – but at least it was still light . Continue reading “Here’s to Spring”
The demise of Nimrod
I spent the whole morning watching the Australian Open semi-final between Andy Murray and David Ferrer. I have to say you Aussies provide a great show. If it isn’t the Australia Day fireworks in the middle of the Nadal-Ferrer match, it’s a flock of seagulls invading the stadium, shortly followed by a very large moth who obviously wanted a closer view of the match. It was a very colourful spectacle, with wee Scottish flags being waved here and there, along with a group of young ladies holding up cards spelling out “Marry me Murray” and at least one supporter with the saltire painted on his face. Then there were the Ferrer fans with their “Ferrero Rocher” banner. I loved the Foreign Legion caps complete with neck protectors of the ball boys and girls, though I thought most of the matches were played in the evening. It was good to see Ken Rosewall among the spectators, who gave great support to both players. There was the idiot who shouted out “Come on Murray” just as our hero was serving, but he might have been a Scottish rather than an Aussie idiot.
The tennis itself was fantastic and to top it all, the Scot won. That’s not something I can say very often. Roll on Sunday!
Jokes to share, some oldies here. Continue reading “TGIF”
Freddie and Montserrat
This came in to me by e-mail from a retired US Deputy Head Teacher (old school!)
How many of us could pass this test? Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated that they only had an 8th grade education?
Well, check this out. – – –
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , KS , USA . It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina , KS , and reprinted by the Salina Journal. Continue reading “1895 School Final Exam – some of you may have seen this already?”
Boadicea's Chariot 
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