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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 July 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? There have a few prompts I’ve enjoyed this month. I liked thinking about inventions, the best of, and what’s missing. I also enjoyed writing about my environment, what can I see outside my house. I love where I live, so enjoy describing the flora and fauna. The best thing this month is feeling really drawn to certain people. I like to imagine what they look like. I’m sure none of my images are correct but fear not I usually imagine favourably. It was nice to find a fellow Aussie in Cappucine  and I always enjoy the two Bobs, Waltz and Bobturn. I like Kåre Enga in Montana  although some days he’s down, he always picks himself up and finds a silver lining. Charlie ~  is amazing. He always has great insight to how he’s tracking, can always find an apt piece of music and is a wonderful writer. Thanks to everyone for chatting in July.. |
| PROMPT July 29th Write about an invention or technology that you wish existed that would make your life better. I wish there were more gadgets for left handed people. I know there are many more than there used to be yet still I get thwarted by items designed specifically with the right handed among us. Anything which has a cable on the right hand side is soo annoying, Thinking irons, hairdryers etc. Scissors knives and potato peelers too. I wish someone would design an automatic dog saliva cleaner which cleaned my glass before the saliva dries. There is something that science could use in dog saliva, so hard to remove completely. How about something similar to a robot vacuum. It would be outside to clean up fallen leaves etc as soon as the get blown from the trees. |
| PROMPT July 27th Write about a time you were caught off guard, surprised, or had the rug pulled out from under you. How did you recover? Well it was 1973, nearly 47 years ago. A dark and stormy night, on our way to the maternity hospital. Things were getting worrying. We were lost. We’d only been in our new country for less than a year and in our new home for less than that. I told my husband to have a dummy run to the hospital but he’d ignored me. Contractions were coming thick and fast, this baby was going to be born very soon. We eventually stopped to ask directions, the driver was very drunk and sent us the wrong way. Oh, Google Maps, how we needed you then. Anyway we managed to get there eventually. Within five minutes of our arrival our son was born. Then came the kicker, there was another baby on the way we didn’t even know was there! Did we recover from the shock? Eventually. |
| PROMPT July 26th What food would you like to judge in a Cook-Off? I’ve been watching MasterChef over the last few weeks and have been in awe of the amazing talent of the chefs. I don’t actually feel as I have the right to stand in judgement of anyone’s culinary attempts. I love watching the judges as they taste the tiny portions and my mouth waters. I am very particular about the way fish is cooked though, so maybe I could be a judge in the fish and chip category. The chips need to be crisp and the fish’s batter thin and melt in your mouth. There’s nothing worse that really thick floury batter. Food should be hot not luke warm, likewise if it’s supposed to chilled then it should be really cold not room temperature.. Kids are the harshest judges I have found. When you present the meal you’ve spent the best part of the day preparing, first they look at it, then poke it with their fork, smell it, take a tiny taste and declare they don’t like it! Then they’ll ask for a sandwich! |
| PROMPT July 25th Reflect on your week. What was challenging? What did you do that made you feel successful? What made you smile? Oh, my! This has been a most challenging week. Last Saturday I was preparing for a wonderful weekend. Sunday was my birthday and the whole family was booked in at the local hotel for a celebration lunch. Not to be, I had a collapse in the bathroom and ended up in hospital for three days with concussion. That was pretty challenging. Not breaking any bones or having bleeds on the brain made me feel successful! What made me smile? Well my eighty eight year old neighbour came to the house to bring a birthday gift. My husband told her about the accident and that I was in hospital. My daughter came to visit me in hospital and told me that Margaret ( my neighbour) had sent her a text saying she’d heard about my accident and was very worried about her Dad! I laughed and said that would be just about right everyone worries about him. My daughter asked her if there was anything particular she was concerned about. Her reply was that she was worried because he’d not really recovered from his heart op 12 weeks ago and he’d had such a shock finding me on the bathroom floor! No word of “how’s your mother doing.” Mmmm. I’m coming back as man in my next life! |
| Hi, sorry I’ve been missing for a week from 30DBC. I managed to knock myself out and land in hospital for three days. I fainted in the bathroom and hit my head on the toilet. Broke the seat and my head, giving me a good dose of concussion. Still feel permanently drunk. Hopefully it won’t last too long. PROMPT July 24th If you could switch places with one other person, who would it be and why? What in particular would you do? I can’t think of anyone I’d like to swap places with. One never knows what anyone has going on in their lives. What may seem ideal, wonderful and perfect could be, and probably is, just a front. Someone told me something I’ve always remembered. If you, your friends and acquaintances sat around in a circle and threw all their problems into the middle and you could take any you liked, you’d soon grab your own back. Having said that, I gave it some more thought. Royalty? Not a chance. Movie star? Too much pressure, notoriety and exposure. If I really had to choose, it would be with someone who saved people’s lives, someone like a surgeon. There was one in particular I’ve always admired, his name was Fred Hollows. He saved the sight of thousands of people in third world countries. For a $25 donation to the Fred Hollows Foundation you can save the sight of a person. How amazing it would be to be someone like him? |
| PROMPT July 17th How important is the role of music in your life and in your creative process? Do you write to music? If so, what kind and why do you think it helps? No, I can’t write to music,I find it distracting. I don’t think I have a particular type of music I really like, It all depends on my mood. Sometimes I love music from Musical Theatre, other times music from my teenage years. I never get sick of the Beatles, they wrote the background music of my formative years. The lyrics are the most important part of a piece of music. When my husband was working away for a year, one of Norah Jones albums became so important to me. All her words resonated to some part of the life we’d shared. It was as if she’d written them just for us. Maybe that is why we’re drawn to certain music at different times of our lives. ABBA’s music is always uplifting, I know all the words! I don’t understand or ‘get’ much out of modern music. I know... I sound like an old fart.  |
| PROMPT July 16th NEOWISE comet: “Enjoy it while you can. The frozen ball of ice won’t return to the inner solar system for 6,800 years.” Talk about it! https://www.nytimes.com/article/neowise-comet.html Well we haven’t heard very much about this particular comet here. Maybe that’s because we’re not going to see it in the Southern Hemisphere. I was interested to read about it though and I’ll keep my eye out for it next time it comes around in 6,500 years. |
| PROMPT July 15th Describe your sense of humor. Is it dark, sarcastic, slapstick, silly, or something else? Do you have any favorite comedians? What always makes you laugh? Monty Python, I think that says it all about my sense of humour. It’s absurd, whacky and a bit left field. I love being silly with little kids,I love how they find the humour in all sorts of situations. My favourite comedian is Michael McIntire. He’s an English comedian. He always makes me laugh. He finds humour in the everyday, in the human condition. https://youtu.be/P7rxffqBmow |
| PROMPT July 14th If you won a free trip to any foreign country, all expenses paid in your own private jet and had the time to go (and there were no travel restrictions due to a global pandemic *Pthb*), what is the first foreign country you would visit? Who would you bring with you? What would you spend your time doing? There are a couple of places I’d like to go to. On reflection I can now see now they both are at a very high altitude. I really love heights, fresh clean air and solitude. The first choice would be Bhutan, a Buddhist country. There they measure their Gross Domestic Product in happiness! The next place is somewhere I saw on a programme on television the other night. It was a railway station on a line that goes on the inside of the north face of the Eiger. What an amazing journey! It would be no good taking my husband, he hates heights. I think I’d be fine on my own actually. When the engineers were digging out the line they needed some place to get rid of all the rocks and soil etc. The presenter of the program was taken to the spot where the rubble was thrown down the mountain. Oh My God, the view from there was amazing. I want to go! |
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