I don’t know if this link will work in other countries but I wanted to share and apologies to those of you in the UK who will have heard about it. This is what happens when a blog hits the news, it’s just brilliant! Perhaps school dinners don’t even exist in all of the places where my readers live, but in the UK for two pounds your child can be provided with a lunch. In some places around the country it willbe a healthy and nutritious meal that may even be better than they might get at home. I believe that the state still provides a free meal for children whose parents are on benefits or a very low income. Anyway here is the link, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18454800
Year: 2012
Weekly Photo Challenge: Close
Close is the theme for this weeks photo challenge at the Daily Post
Here is my interpretation, close combat!Click to enlarge as always.
Friday Fictioneers, On the Nose
Madison’s challenge has this photo today http://madisonwoods.wordpress.com/flash-fiction/pathways/ joining in is fun, lots of great flash fiction to read. Here is mine.
On the Nose
‘She has the scent already,’ the sow pulled Emil sharply right, nearly pulling him over.
‘Ouch, why can’t you stay on the path in the light?’Jean-Francois followed laughing, as the pig thrust her snout into the leaf mould, her tail corkscrewing frantically.
‘I can’t smell a thing, but I can see something black down there.’ The boys rummaged in beside her and didn’t hear the footsteps back on the path, but a resounding snort registered. They turned and faced the biggest wild boar ever.
‘It’s old Napoleon, he thinks these are his truffles . . . run for your life.’
100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups Week# 45
Julia’s little treat this week is the prompt ‘there’s a real buzz about this place’, as usual I’m a little off the wall but here goes.
A Chance to Dance
So many nationalities. I’m the only one from Pakistan. My friends back home have dared me. ‘Don’t travel all that way and do as you do at home’ said Jamila. ‘Taste the alcohol and come back and tell us about it, let your hair down’, from Rashida and Yasmin together. It’s my last night and I haven’t done anything radical, nothing that Ammi would be ashamed of, but there’s a real buzz about this place and I may never get another chance. This Niqab is coming off now; I’m going to dance with a man who can see my face.
There will be lots more entries to read over at http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week45/
Wordless Wednesday
Banana Spam Nuttiness
Spam is becoming really funny these days. Not funny that it exists of course, but the lengths they go with it. In my early days of blogging I didn’t get the spam protection thing, why would anyone want to send spam my way? I would get the odd few spam comments, but not take any notice or even delete them, they just sat there. Then I read how some peoples comments ended up in the spam box for no reason, so I started to check and delete it all. The volume has gradually increased, I wonder why? Is it because I have lots of followers now? What do they hope to gain?
Here is some recent stuff, have any of you received similar ones? Spam comments on my post ‘pets’
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Travel Theme: Oceans
June 8th was world oceans day, http://worldoceansday.org/ and Ailsa decided it would be the perfect topic for her weekly travel theme. I’m posting this photo not because it is remarkable in itself but because being there had such an impact on me personally. It’s Ghana’s Axim beach and truly beautiful. When I stood there I realised that there was no land fall between me and the South Pole, a strange feeling. I don’t know the distance but from the Golf of Guinea, the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean to Antarctica a vastness opens up. Checking a map there are some minute islands hundreds of miles west, but that’s it. You probably think I’m crazy now but it was very odd at the time!
Sunday Post: Water H2o
Sunday is Jakes day! Water is the theme for this weeks photos and mine are five miles and eight thousand miles from home.
Near, the Exe from the Goat Walk at Topsham
Far, beside the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur
And back to the Exe, it never fails me even with a phone camera.
My photos are a bit predictable, I love where I live and Kuala Lumpur is probably my all time favourite city to visit. For some more original work visit Jake and check out his amazing animations as well as the other entrants.
http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/sunday-post-water-h2o/
Weekly Photo Challenge: Friendship
I’m very, very lucky. I have a lot of good friends and a handful of people who are very special to me and who have been part of my life for a long time. These two, J & S, I have known for 45 years! We became friends as school and now after all this time we still meet once a month. We have been there for each other through every major life event and there must be very few things we don’t know about each other – except that we are getting to the stage where we remember the things from way back but the more recent stuff is another matter! We could have another 45 years of friendship at a pinch 🙂
Sorry girls! this is Christmas 2003.
Wordless Wednesday
Lucid Gypsy 