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Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end. So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.     |
| The Great Colour Question Today is Week 4 of the second year of Lilli 🧿 ☕  ’s Promptly Poetry Challenge. It’s all about favorite colours and a memory stirred in my brain as I read the prompt. I’ve done that a while back, I thought. And I remember it was about Green.The problem was that I couldn’t remember where I’d put the Green poem. Figuring it was most likely to be last year’s Promptly, I had a look there. Couldn’t find it. Looked in all the other likely places and then the unlikely. Wasn’t anywhere I searched. Andrea was also looking by then and she found it. Last year’s Promptly. I’d omitted turning back to the first page of my folder for those poems and that’s where it was. You’re guessing that I was considering cheating by using the poem again. But you’d be wrong. I just wanted to confirm that I wasn’t having some sort of phantom memory of a thing I’d never created. But finding it meant that I was going to have to choose another colour. That meant having a little think. While I was thinking, I wandered through my early years of Question of the Day, another Lilli offering (she’s exceptionally busy). It was where my increasingly desperate search had led me before Andrea had put me out of my misery. As I read some of my answers to those questions of long ago, it occurred to me that I had told an awful lot about myself in them. If Lilli ever decides to go on a Beholden hunt, she has an enormous store of ammunition in those answers. What on earth was I thinking? Especially when you consider how secretive I imagine myself to be. Maybe I’ve been fooling myself all along. It’s obviously possible that I’m really some open, honest and outgoing extravert who has somehow deluded himself into thinking he’s an introvert. Possible but unlikely, I think. The truth is, no doubt, that I’m just like everyone else and I can’t resist going on at length when asked to speak about myself. Which is why I really ought to shut up right now. Word Count: 356 |
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I've always remembered that episode and thought that was a fun idea.
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As someone who just reviewed an item in your port, I can't help but wonder, Did I pick an item that you'd throw out? 