This week’s 100 word challenge over at Julia’s http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week-42/
has five words for the prompt. They are LIBERTY, APPLE, YELLOW, ENORMOUS AND EMPIRE. I’m told my attempt is too cryptic this time so you may not get it 😦
Speed Date
It took me all night to make this. I’m so out of practice, haven’t cut a pattern for years. Enormous amount of fabric, Liberty print the length of the hall. Thank goodness it’s bright yellow; you can’t really see where I spilt the apple juice.
Hooray for chicken fillets, I’ve always wanted to wear an Empire line dress. A bonnet would be too much, but my hair’s up. I feel like a bride, perhaps that’s a good omen.
Speed dating with an Austen theme, only in Winchester eh? Is this the right room?
Oh my God.
Austen.
Powers.
Not Jane.
Lucid Gypsy 
Haha- love this; really clever.
I had thought along the lines of Liberty bodices but that was as far as I got. Yours works very well (although non-English readers may not follow it)
I remember making patchworks with remnants from that exclusive store when I was a little girl 😀 (Does it still exist!?)
Very much enjoyed this one.
Thanks Anna, glad you like it! I think it does still exist, what lovely fabric it was.
But he should be used to feeling confused about what year it is by this time! You’ll be fine, Gilly, just fine, just remember to curtsey properly before you start to twist with him. 😀
hahaha excellent Sharon, you ‘ve reminded me of when I was a little girl and I used to practise curtseying!
Oh I love it, nice ending – yeh, baby, yeh!
Thanks very much Louise!
That was great. Loved the twist at the end. I’ve been waiting to see who would use liberty as ‘Libertys’.
You are truly creative and brilliant. I love this… Where is your blue post? 😉
Goodness, me? thanks, praise indeed from such a bright star!
Hi,
Well done. 🙂
Never even thought of Liberty’s prints … really well done. And I can’t even begin to imagine the embarrassment of this. 🙂
Ha, that’s so funny…one doesn’t have to get the Libertys allusion to love this post.
Thanks for visiting Robanne!
Cringe. Great.
That was fun. Jane instead of Austin … sounds like something I’d do!
sweet read and lol with the chicken fillets! x
Thanks Jenny I wonder if they are known as that elsewhere!
Oh I loved the end…I could just see her face.
Mortifying 🙂 Love the twist in your tales Gilly!
Ha! What a great twist there at the end, Gilly! 🙂
I like the picture of this speed dater trying to look like an Austen character. And the bit about the up-do really stood out for me. Her anxiety feels so real, too.
This made me laugh – particularly the chicken fillets part! Love the sense of dread she feels at the end when she realises her faux-par!
Thanks so much Lynsey 🙂
Haha! I posted mine before reading yours. We both went for Liberty fabric. Great minds eh?
totally! yours is cool 🙂
A bit obscure, but still interesting 🙂 I thought it was all about speed dating (which I have tried) but then I read the comment of IsobelandCat & it’s about Liberty Fabric? These 100 word challenges are really something else – I don’t think I could do it!
Noeleen
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Loved the twist at the end – (should hairs be hair’s?)
hahaha of course – I am such a slop! thanks for visiting 🙂
Fantastic! It’s so difficult to get a good twist in just 100 words (and not make it clunky), but you’ve done it. I’m impressed.
Great ending. x
This was hilarious! I really needed cheering up tonight so I’m really glad I visited your blog. This has really put a smile on my face.
Not a bit too cryptic! I can relate! Considerably older, heavier, and more nervous about a date. (Any date.) And it’s not enough that all the things I like to wear and use are considered “out of date.” Added to the problem is that 1/3 of the names and other words in the English language that I use mean something entirely different from what they meant 20 years ago.
Great job of writing, Gilly! As usual. It’s just a pity that I can see so much REALITY in it.
Good one! Austen Powers? Are you kidding me. YES!! What’s not to LOVE?