The Promise of Cherries. Photo Dordogne May 2013.

Good Morning. Although I am still behind in my AtoZ challenge blog visits and commenting, I would like to , without further ado,  dedicate a special post for my Sunshine Blogger Award Nominations.  Sonia Dogra , whom I warmly thank again, from A Hundred Quills, whose blog has enabled me to travel through the A to […]

It’s Friday again. Time flies ! Another post for Five Minute Friday. Write five minutes flat on a word prompt. I you would like to know more about this writing group and maybe join go here You don’t have to be a christian to write for this group. Some blogs are very christian oriented, others aren’t. […]

The A to Z Challenge is now over. I will still be visiting blogs, mostly from M onwards. So please keep your comments OPEN. If you would like to know more about the A to Z Challenge and maybe join next year,  go here The 10 years of the A to Z Challenge,   go here […]

Hello there and Welcome to my blog Life in Poetry . The A to Z April Challenge has got me used to posting every day ! But I’ve slackened a tat. Every other day, Wednesday, Friday (FMF) and Sunday. Although tomorrow is the sign-up for Reflections on the A to Z Challenge, running till May […]

it’s Friday again. Time for another post for the Five Minute Friday community. Write every Friday for  Five Minutes Flat on a word prompt. Today OPPORTUNITY If you would like to know more about this writing community go here and follow instructions to link up. For today’s link go here OPPORTUNITY Very early in life, I learnt […]

Sorry to all my followers. One day late. It’s time for another group posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group!Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those who are feeling neurotic. If you’d like to join us, click on the tab above and sign up. We post the first Wednesday […]

Z is for Zébulon (Zippy in English)

Sunset on the A to Z Challenge of April 2019. Photo April 2019, on the road from Agen to Toulouse.

Y is for WHY
photo : U2 WAR album.

X is for Xylophone

photo : the London Eye.
We are in London visiting my daughter. So this is a scheduled post. But I am still visiting other blogs over the weekend, so feel free to comment and I will reply promptly. Thanks.

W is for Wonder Woman
photo book cover : Wonder by R.J. Palacio.

V is for Victory
photo : Acqua Alta in Venice

U is for UBER
photo : Moon in our garden, March 2019.

S is for SNOW
photo : snowman in our garden , January 2013

photo : Frisbee, a neighbour’s dog in our house in the Dordogne, December 2018.

photo : The Canal du Midi
that gets its waters from the Garonne and links the Mediterranean with the Atlantic : from Narbonne to Bordeaux. It flows through the heart of Toulouse,
a few hundred yards from the Garonne.

photo : Cala Gonone, Nuoro, Sardagna, Italia, July 2015

Q is for Queen

in Istanbul, photo taken in July 2018.

Here is my contribution to the A to Z Challenge of April 2019. This is the first time I am participating in this challenge, so we’ll see if I have the stamina to complete the whole month ! I am also, very ambitiously, writing for the April NaNoWriMo ! So the challenge is twofold !! […]

Here is my contribution to the A to Z Challenge of April 2019. This is the first time I am participating in this challenge, so we’ll see if I have the stamina to complete the whole month ! I am also, very ambitiously, writing for the April NaNoWriMo ! So the challenge is twofold !! […]

Here is my contribution to the A to Z Challenge of April 2019. This is the first time I am participating in this challenge, so we’ll see if I have the stamina to complete the whole month ! I am also, very ambitiously, writing for the April NaNoWrite ! So the challenge is twofold !! […]

Here is my contribution to the A to Z Challenge of April 2019. This is the first time I am participating in this challenge, so we’ll see if I have the stamina to complete the whole month ! I am also, very ambitiously, writing for the April NaNoWrite ! So the challenge is twofold !! […]

Here is my contribution to the A to Z Challenge of April 2019. This is the first time I am participating in this challenge, so we’ll see if I have the stamina to complete the whole month ! I am also, very ambitiously, writing for the April NaNoWrite ! So the challenge is twofold !! […]

Photo : from a canvas outside the Mongolian Yourte, at the Musée Labit, Toulouse.
Today, G is for GLEE.

Here is my contribution for this week’s Five Minute Friday. A challenge in which you write for five minutes flat on/about a word prompt, whatever it inspires in your writing self. If you would like to participate GO HERE https://fiveminutefriday.com/start-here PLACE 1) “The Potty’s the Place”, a quote from a ‘favourite stories for under fives’ video […]

Here are my contributions for February 17th through 19th: song, dance and film. SURRENDER to his charmHere is a song by Leonard Cohen  performed in a filmFirst we take Manhattan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWXDKgjHEaI&frags=pl%2Cwn CREATE a SONG Here is a song by Charlotte Gainsbourg The Songs That We Sing The beautiful daughter of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. […]