Category: Favourites
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The Results
Recently I posted, as an experiment, a request for readers of my blog to try to categorise eight of my posts. I wanted to gather if by reading one hundred words, the reader could tell if the post was based on a real event, a dream, a revelation or it was complete fiction. Thanks to…
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View from the window: Blurosaurus!
**WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SOME TERRIBLE IMAGES** Shocking view from the window today… absolutely terrible, in fact. I heard a strange rumbling noise outside, almost like a stampede, coming from the Grinds. I was on the ground floor, around back and I glanced out of the window, only to see dinosaurs running passed. Running in…
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Strange Things
Jean cautiously approached Athena, who was cradling the baby tenderly. “Could I have my child back, please?” Jean didn’t mean to sound as abrupt as she did. Athena stood, and reluctantly handed the gurgling bundle over. “He’s a lovely baby.” Athena said, “Maybe I was wrong about him.” Jean was confused. How could anyone be…
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Starlings
I’m still in Outer Space at the moment. Exploring various parts of the Universe that have only recently been discovered by us ‘mere’ Earthlings. Everywhere I look right now, I see the Phoenix. On the side of a lorry, in a book, in a blog post, on TV. It even cropped up whilst I was…
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One Minute Ramble: C-cold!
There’s a nursery rhyme that begins: January brings the snow, Makes our feet and fingers glow. It was warmer in January than it is now. I’m sure of it. The rhyme continues: February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again. We have plenty of rain, so that could be true of any month. But…