Boadicea's Chariot

Kojo with two friends

I have put a picture on Ara’s photography competition post on my son’s holiday in Ghana. But for those that have not seen that one then I put another here. Kojo has been away two months now, with his mother, and is due back in the UK next week. He has had a great time. He is outside the house most of the day, playing with other kids, with a ball or a hoop, chasing chickens and counting stars. (I am told the girls are chasing him!)

I shall re-create a mini Christmas day, on the day of his arrival back home; loads of prezzies to open and a small tree to marvel at. You can be sure I have missed him and his mother.

Two Colorful Birds, CO and Janh.

Same stump but not possible to get them to perch side by side.

Blue Jay

Few minutes later
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My Blackberry Is Not Working!

This is what you need to do:- Continue reading “My Blackberry Is Not Working!”

For Sheona

Jockland's hero — Winning his semi-final

The Australian press is quite complimentary about the wee chap, and definitely supportive of his second attempt at an Australian Grand Slam title. I’m sure the crowd at the Rod Laver Arena will be barracking for him tomorrow.

The Great British Hangover cure.

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A note on Polls

John Mackie has added a poll to his Creative Writing Competition. Good on ya’, JM, looks like fun.

John’s poll appears in a separate PollDaddy page when you click on the link, but polls can just as easily appear within a post.
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No gesture out of place

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”

January CW Competition – The End is Nigh

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

Janus – ‘ A Permanent Reminder’
Araminta – ‘The Political Wife’
The Royalist – ‘Canvasses and Mattresses’
Pseu – ‘Perfect Conkers’
OZ – ‘Mores! O Mores! (II)’

Readers’ Prize:

Very much where we are today.

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.

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”