Author: Sarah

No time to lose. No, time to lose. Make time to stand and stare.... Did you see that?

Competition results: ‘Short Story’ closing 31st October 2011

DON’T READ THIS YET –  IF YOU WANT TO VOTE ON THE POLL FIRST!!!

SEE BEARSY’S POST

These were the parameters:

“….up to 2000 words long on the theme of ‘wedding.’ The first scene will start with two people in a room. There’s a key on the table. During the story you should include the words ‘football’ and ‘armchair’. The closing date is October 31st at UK midnight.”

Well, The Royalist (https://charioteers.org/2011/10/25/newly-dead/) surpassed himself, of course, going off-course with a surrealist mis-interpretation which was vair amoozing. (It’s time to get your eyes tested, young man.  The theme was wedding. Not weeding. At least it wasn’t about welding.) He had the other bits… two people and a key on the table, plus football and armchair. So not ‘nil points’! Continue reading “Competition results: ‘Short Story’ closing 31st October 2011”

House for Sale

From the land it can’t be seen until you are standing high on the cliffs above – and from the sea, of course it is highly visible and a life saver, sending out its instantly recognisable series of flashes to warn ships off the treacherous coastline that forms the North Devon interface between water and solid land.

I’m talking about Hartland Point Lighthouse.

We parked in the car-park, paying our entry fee to cross private land to reach our destination. Then walked across rough ground watching the heavy skies, hoping the storm would not break over us as we climbed. Still we couldn’t see the light house…until we turned the corner and looked down.
There, crouched on the rock face, a beautiful lighthouse – a calm sea and on the horizon a storm gathering.

The lighthouse is for sale.

“Hartland Point lighthouse will be decommissioned following the installation of a more efficient solar powered LED beacon which will continue to ensure that this area of the coastline is adequately marked.. “

Fancy moving?

For this challenge

Ghoulish

I know I’m slow… maybe it’s because I don’t watch much TV, but at the weekend I discovered that Cadbury are making and selling creme eggs now and colouring them differently, using green… and marketing them as ‘Screme Eggs’ for the Halloween market.
(I really don’t like Halloween anyway: I am appalled by the amount of tat produced and don’t want anything to do with ‘trick or treating’ having seen what it can do to elderly frail nerves.) Continue reading “Ghoulish”

Competition links

Just a quick reminder, in case anyone has missed the carefully placed competition links on the right of the page:

SHORT STORY
the closing date for the short story competition is 31st October, UK midnight.

“The short story should be posted as a separate blog and linked to the one in the link above.
It should be up to 2000 words long on the theme of ‘wedding.’
The first scene will start with two people in a room. There’s a key on the table. During the story you should include the words ‘football’ and ‘armchair’.”

PHOTOGRAPHY
The deadline is Friday November 4th at midnight UK time.

“The photo competition this time is on perspectives… in particular the vanishing point of parallel lines, or the vanishing point of a river or road, or anything where the vanishing point is shown, maybe on a smaller scale …. you get the picture? See what I’m after? Please post your photos in comments on the original post . Thank you!”

Let’s get this into perspective…..

The photo competition this time is on perspectives… in particular the vanishing point of parallel lines, or the vanishing point of a river or road, or anything where the vanishing point is shown, maybe on a smaller scale …. you get the picture? See what I’m after?

The deadline is Friday November 4th at midnight UK time.

Please post your photos in comments. Thank you!

October gardening

Here I show you a late season pleasure that emerges and flowers with no love and attention from me between cutting back the dead stems in Spring and keeping down some of the weeds before it blooms. I understand it is a Toad Lily. I think it deserves a prettier name!

Continue reading “October gardening”

Short story competition relaunch – October 2011

It is time to restart the short story  competition and as I raised the subject this time I have I stepped forward to set the ball rolling…

The short story should be posted as a separate blog and linked to this one.
It should be up to 2000 words long on the theme of ‘wedding.’
The first scene will start with two people in a room. There’s a key on the table. During the story you should include the words ‘football’ and ‘armchair’.

The closing date is October 31st at UK midnight. I will judge the entries and announce a winner. The winner will set the next competition.

Have I missed anything?