Category: Favourites
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Out and about…
Walking around the lake the other day, I stopped off to have a quick lean against one of the rocks and to watch the fish and the ducks swimming. I’d been leaning for a few minutes when I spotted this chap or chappess basking in the bright sunshine. He (or she!) was not in the…
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Number Thirteen
Number 13. The postman dreaded number thirteen. Not that he was really superstitious or anything, but there was a certain thing about number thirteen that he wasn’t particularly keen on. He had a letter to deliver, and the thing was in the garden. He posted the other letters in the road first, and then it…
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Remember that time I went to the future?
It’s catch-up time again, so a quick reminder of a post from last September (figuratively speaking) to fill a space where otherwise nothing would be. Not that there would be anything in the space if nothing was here, but in this vast (and now altered) Universe, there’s always something… I woke up this morning, and…
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Originally posted on Shree's Writing Experiment: This is a writing challenge from a blogger friend Tom. Hope you enjoy it! Once upon a time in the land of Aria there was a handsome king and his gorgeous wife, the queen. As with most fairy tales the King and Queen of Aria had a beautiful…
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Lakeside
Into the depths of the lake I looked and saw the fishes swimmingThe ducks were paddling gently by with faces that were grinningThe heron stood looking out with one eye on something distantA terrapin basked on a rock, not moving for an instantA blue dragonfly hovered and looked me roundly in the eyeMy attention, though,…