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This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things
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| PROMPT March 30th Congratulations on making it to the last day of the competition! What was your favorite prompt from the last month? What was the most rewarding aspect of participating in the competition? Well if I had to sum up this particular 30 day blogging challenge, I’d say that most prompts asked me to remember. I had to dig deep for some of those memories but the one I liked were my earliest memories. I’m not absolutely sure the ones I spoke about happened exactly as I thought they did. But they are the memories I have and hold dear. Anyway the challenge let me wander down memory lane. I was surprised to see how those memories manifested themselves. They’re just snippets, just flashes, with nothing either side, before or after. One wonders why those particular ones remain imprinted on my memory. Who knows? I’ve really enjoyed this month, there has been more interaction than other challenges. As I am always one of the first to enter my reply to a prompt, I try to read and react to the other early bloggers. So maybe some of you might have thought I didn’t read yours. But before I do the following day’s entry I try to read everyone's. I missed reading Robert Waltz  he decided to give it a miss this month. Kåre Enga in Montana  I feel this month’s challenge was often difficult for you. So many memory prompts😩Not everyone wants to look back. Thanks to everyone else for your input and insights to your lives. Cheers Sue. |
| PROMPT March 29th What did you like / dislike about where you grew up? What do you like / dislike about where you live now? It’s thought provoking when you are confronted by a question like this. I never once thought I didn’t like where I lived growing up. My mother was a true homemaker so we were always made comfortable, certainly physically. We moved around a lot when I was a kid but each place seemed like home. Probably because my Mum was there. Maybe the place I didn’t enjoy living the most was the time we had seven years running a corner store. Living on the premises, there was never a time you felt as if the day had ended. Lots of hard work for little reward. But having said that, it was where I learned my work ethic. Even now if I sit down for too long I feel guilty. My childhood/ adolescence/ early adulthood was in England. I loved England. I liked the uniqueness, the humour, the countryside and the history. Now we live in Australia. I like that it’s different but similar to the UK. We speak the same language, well almost.🤣 There’s nothing I hate or dislike about the country but I still love BBC programmes on television. I love that we’re almost Covid free. I love that my children are Australian. |
| PROMPT March 28th We need your help filling the Challenge War Chest with prompts! In your entry today, write three of your own 30DBC prompts and then choose one to respond to. 1. If you could change lives with anyone, who would it be and why? 2. When were you last out of your comfort zone? 3. Tell us about the kindness of a stranger. The last time I was out of my comfort zone was earlier this year. I’ve been a member of a community writing group for over ten years. It’s always been advertised as Creative Writing classes. So we usually get people who have never written anything before. People who want to write their life story or that of their mother/ grandmother/ ancestors. Anyway what I’m saying is that the ones that come along want to be taught how to write. I’ve always thought it is very hard to teach anyone to write. My take on it is just write something, read it out to the class and be open to receive feedback. Eventually you will get better at the craft. Anyway I decided this year it was the time I went somewhere to learn or mix with really great writers. So I joined a women’s writing group at Katherine Suzanna Pritchard writers house. They host writers in residence there, people who come from all over Australia to write their novels in the seclusion of the beautiful Perth Hills. My first day there, the group were all invited to bring along their published works. I really and truly felt way out of my comfort zone. Anyway I’m still there and am able to participate on a somewhat, nearly, almost, playing field. |
| PROMPT March 27th In your entry today, write about one of the most frightening moments of your life. OMG There have been so many it’s hard to select one. So I may put them in order of fright. 1. I was eighteen and asleep. A man woke me up with a hand over my face. He asked me how old I was. I told him, and then he said if he took his hand away did I promise not to scream. I nodded. Then when he let go of my face I screamed for my Dad. The funny part was that my dad and big brother fought each other in the dark. Each convinced they had the intruder who had turned the power off. Anyway he escaped without being captured. 2. My two year old boy slipped out of the car at the local rubbish tip as my husband dumped some rubbish. He was backed over by a truck. Because of recent wet weather he survived as he was pushed into the soft dirt. He escaped with a fractured skull. 3. The same son had lit a stick from a garden fire. He waved it around and then as it started to go out he dipped it into a full can of petrol! I fully expected it to blow him up, but according to some law of physics it didn’t. 4. Being caught in a typhoon in the Philippines. That was pretty much up there with frightening moments. I’m pretty sure there are other times which my mind has blanked out. |
| PROMPT March 26th If you asked your friends to describe you using only three words, what would they say? And why do you think so? Oh this is hard. I’m not sure actually what they would say about me. Perhaps each one would describe me differently. I know I can usually make people laugh even though I don’t think I’m funny. Perhaps it’s the way I try to minimise some of the dramas that seem to follow me. So maybe amusing? Number one. I hope I come over as compassionate and caring too. I find it easy to put myself in other’s shoes. So perhaps for number two. Empathetic? Even though I’m not a person who puts myself out there, I’m actually quite reserved. I think I hide that side of myself and put on a brave front. So those that don’t really know me really well would say the opposite. But my true friends would say. Self effacing for number three? |
| PROMPT March 25th What’s the best or worst practical joke that you’ve played on someone or that was played on you? I may come over as a spoilsport or a misery, but I HATE practical jokes. I don’t like being on the receiving end or being the joker. I don’t like making a fool out of anyone, I always feel so sorry for them. Those television programs that used to be all the rage like Candid Camera can be funny but I don’t like watching them. So I actually don’t have anything to add to this prompt. Sorry. Anyway I’ll be interested to see how others answer it. |
| PROMPT March 24th Write about some of your most memorable vacations. Where did you go? Who were you with? What was your favorite part of the trip? It is never the time you ate great meals, or read ten books lying next to a blue lagoon that you’ll remember. No, it’s always the times things went terribly wrong that stick in your memory and the tales you will relate. If I listed all the times we were inconvenienced or angry at each other over some missed mode of transport one would think we’d had a dreadful time. But it’s those times which give colour and texture to what otherwise would have just been a good lie down. So I’ll tell you about a few hair raising events or downright annoyances but these didn’t detract or ruin our vacations. A bad injury falling off a cycle rickshaw in Vietnam Being caught in a Typhoon in Manila Food poisoning in Vietnam Getting on a train in India having booked a first class cabin after weeks of travelling third class and finding out we’d missed the train by a day. Then being relegated to sharing an overnight apartment with six drunken Indian men. Discovering we’d selected a brothel as our hotel in Mumbai. Bed bugs in Thailand. Tsunami in Sri Lanka. Other than those mishaps, we had wonderful times. Honestly 🤣 |
| PROMPT March 23rd What do you do to improve your mood when you are sad? If you are frustrated or angry, what is your secret to feeling better? I know that this remedy is almost certainly not the best remedy, it I usually find a glass of wine helps🤣 Other than that I might have a nap 💤 Writing usually helps take my mind of anything that’s worrying me. You can’t think of more than one thing at a time. A walk might do the trick if it’s not too hot or cold. I love to consider problems whilst walking. Just felling someone how I’m feeling really helps. I don’t usually select my husband to open up to because he always wants to fix things. Men don’t realise that sometimes you are not looking for a quick fix, you just want to let it all out. That’s where my girl friends come in. Women just listen. |
| PROMPT March 22nd Write about your earliest memory. Try to describe it in as much detail as possible. My very first memory was crying in my cot and my big brother, who was six years older than me, came and picked me up and let me sleep in his bed. I must have been about eighteen months. After that my most clear memory was starting school at aged four and 2 months. I remember the day, being left all day for the first time without my Mum! I’m an also remember sitting on a sideboard with Mum because she’d seen a mouse. She was up there with me. I don’t know how long we sat there but as she never did get over her fear of mice, we were probably there for hours.🤣 I know we are asked about one memory but mine are just snippets. No details. There was one other that happened when I was about three. I was helping Dad in the garden, I picked up a garden fork and stabbed myself through the foot with it. We had no car and I remember Dad taking me to the doctors on his push bike. I was sitting on the crossbar. |
| PROMPT March 21st What food or dish have you never eaten but would really like to try? I don’t think there are many dishes I haven’t tried. Vietnamese food was confronting, especially the menu called Forest foods. There were things like pigs uterus. I didn’t actually try that, nor did I wish to. Maybe haggis. I haven’t tried but I would imagine it’s a little like meat loaf or meat balls. My grandson is a vegan and eats meat substitute meals. He says you can’t tell the difference between a vegan burger and real meat. I won’t be trying that, I don’t think. In Asia there are a lot of insects eaten. Grasshoppers, cockroaches, things like that. Apparently they’re fine deep fried. I’ve seen people eat them but I haven’t tried. |
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