Author, Author!

Daily Prompt: Ghostwriter If you could have any author –living or dead – write your biography, who would you choose? Oooh, that’s a tough one. Either Margaret Atwood – she is my favourite author and if she wrote my bio, I might get to meet her. Or Alan Bennett, because he is simply marvellous. Also because …

The things I do on a lazy Sunday afternoon…

Daily Prompt: Playlist of the Week Tell us how your week went by putting together a playlist of  five songs that represent it. Monday Spent Hunting High and Low for Mr L’s contact lenses. Unfortunately no A-ha! moment for us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPAzwUhXnzs Tuesday Still searching for those lenses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccPBMI9Lixo Wednesday Finished reading Roger McGough’s book “Said and …

Trust me

Daily Prompt: Fantasy The Tooth Fairy (or Easter Bunny, or Santa Claus . . .): a fun and harmless fiction, or a pointless justification for lying to children? I am British, so the Easter Bunny never paid a call to our house, but the Tooth Fairy visited at night when our teeth fell out and Santa …

Dear Diary

Today’s Daily Prompt has me somewhat stumped. We may have to state some assumptions. Daily Prompt: Seven Days You wake up tomorrow morning to find all your plans have been cancelled for the next seven days and $10,000 on your dresser. Tell us about your week. Assumptions The money left is in usable currency – i.e. …

The ticking crocodile

Daily Prompt: All Grown Up When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)? Do we ever really grow up? I think that most of us are a little like Peter Pan at heart; our grown-up-ness is just a front. Who of us does not throw an occasional snowball, or splash …

Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. Bonus Post

I enjoyed yesterday’s challenge post. While I was working out what I wanted to do I came across some more photographs that I think I might enjoy revisiting, so here is a bonus post that continues my theme of strangers and friends. Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction For this challenge, we want to …