Author: Sarah

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

What’s the best question ever asked?

How far east can you go before you’re heading west?

If you dug a hole through the centre of the earth,and jumped in, would you stay at the centre because of gravity?

When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?

If ghosts can walk through walls and glide down stairs, why don’t they fall through the floor?

Do you have a favourite?

Love film?

As gift Techie (17) has been given a three month package of the ‘Love Film’ deal – four films a month for three months.

We have made a list, between us, of ‘must see’ films.
On Saturday night we watched ‘Schindler’s List’ which was brilliant and gruelling.

Just wondering if any of you have a few favourite ‘must see’ films to recommend?

Honestly you couldn’t make this up…

Thursday, late lunch-time- and only a small window of time, but may just enough to nick across the road from the office where I was based that day, to get to the cash-point, and pick up some spends ready for the reunion weekend and to put the promised £10 on Techie’s phone, plus get a bite to eat from the Co-op?

The first hurdle was the pedestrian crossing. Dum-de-dum. Come on. So slow….but not worth the risk of trying to run across with lorries thundering past.

Then I reached the cash-point and with the sun glare on the green screen I couldn’t see the display, but I pushed in my card and then shaded the screen with my hands.
Still no display.
Darn it, I thought -or words to that effect, it’s not working.
I pressed the card return and no card rolled back out… but instead, weirdly,  a small screw driver head poked out and waved around – a bit like a worm blindly sniffing the air. I looked about — looking for the camera. Surely this was some kind off joke? Continue reading “Honestly you couldn’t make this up…”

February 2011 Creative Writing Competition

Up to 2000 words, as short story around the subject of ‘The Weekend Reunion’, to include  the word ‘jealousy.’
One person has just suffered a bereavement during the last year and another has just discovered an infidelity. Continue reading “February 2011 Creative Writing Competition”

Here’s to Spring

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”

Crunch

Arriving at my last morning visit I shut my car boot as usual to be greeted with a rather horrid grating noise. I opened it again and discovered that the boot support strut had come away from its fixing and had now jammed across the closure so that it was impossible to shut the boot properly. Continue reading “Crunch”

Alternative Nursery Rhymes

A few alternative nursery rhymes for Janus… but written a while back , so probably don’t count for the competition!

Lottery

There was a crooked man,
who walked a crooked mile,
he found a crooked pound coin,
upon a crooked stile,

he bought a crooked lotto ticket,
and won a crooked prize,
and went abroad to sunny Spain,
which was very, very wise. Continue reading “Alternative Nursery Rhymes”

‘Just’ Swim?

OK, some of you will have been through this before with me  – but this year I’m doing a slightly different challenge.  Instead of pledging to swim either 100 or 200 lengths on a given day in a given pool I’m pledging to swim regularly from end of January to 8th April to see how many lengths I can accumulate. Continue reading “‘Just’ Swim?”