Writing, reading, reflecting.
It’s Friday again. Time for another post of Five Minute Friday. Write Five Minutes Flat on a word prompt. If you would like to join this group hosted by our loving Kate start-here Today , the word is Take. He took the money and ran. He ran, ran and ran again. Soles beating the cobbles, cycles […]
Read More ⌗FMFriday, 5th July 2019, TAKE the money and RunIt’s time for another IWSG Wednesday, hot, hot, hot. If you would like to know more, or join the Insecure Writers Support Group go here Today HOT Wednesday. It’s July, so now we’re cooking! Temps are up, fall is beginning to look darned good, but we need to take time and celebrate HOT #IWSG Wednesday. Thanks Alex! And […]
Read More ⌗HOT-IWSG Wednesday 3rd July 2019.It’s Friday again, time for another post to contribute to Five Minute Friday, hosted by Kate. Thank her for her hard work in keeping this FMF group alive, on Blogger, WordPress and Facebook. Write Five Minutes Flat on a word prompt. This week World. If you would like to join the group, and add your […]
Read More ⌗FMF challenge, WORLDWelcome to Freedom of Expression, Week 26. If you would like to know more about this challenge, hosted by Richa at iScriblr, go here This week, CREATIVITY. Creating. A spark. The first word. The flow, a stream trickling over polished pebbles. A brook tripping over moss sheening rocks. A rushing river tearing down the mountain […]
Read More ⌗FreedomOfExpression, week 26, CREATIVITYWelcome back to another Five Minute Friday post. Sorry for the late entry ! Write Five minutes flat on a word prompt every week. If you would like to know more about FMF, join Kate, go here This Week: GOAL It’s vital to set goals in life. Something to forge ahead towards. Future pleasures or […]
Read More ⌗FMF, Five Minute Friday, 14th June, GOALGood Morning, and thank you for visiting. I signed up for the June Challenge of the combined WEP-IWSG community of writers. If you would like to know more about Write…Edit…Publish go here and the Insecure Writers’ Support Group go here I wrote a short story for February, theme, 28 DAYS that you can read here I did […]
Read More ⌗WEP-IWSG challenge, CAGED BIRD, June 2019Welcome to Week 23 of the Thursday Freedom of Expression Challenge hosted by iScriblr and Richa, amazing Haiku blogger, among other gems. If you would like to know more about this challenge and join up, go here Post every Thursday on a word prompt. Writing (poems, short stories, fiction, articles); reading, photography, painting, drawing, […]
Read More ⌗Freedom-of-Expression Challenge, Thursday 6th June 2019, DREAMI’m late, I’m late, I’m late….she said looking at her pocket watch… It’s that time of month, busy like a bee, it slipped her mind. No pocket watch or calendar could save Humpty Dumpty….. Welcome to the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. Every month share your thoughts about writing prompted by a question. If you would […]
Read More ⌗IWSG, Wednesday 5th June 2019It’s Friday again. time for a new FMF post. Missed last week, as I was at the World Impact Summit at Bordeaux, France. Ecological Fair, France-Africa, finding sustainable solutions for the development of the African continent : energy ressources, water, nutrition, power, irrigation, digital networks, education, health, basic rights. Write every Friday for Five Minutes […]
Read More ⌗FMF, 31st May 2019, NAMEGood Morning, and thank you for visiting. I am signing up for the June Challenge of the combined WEP-IWSG community of writers. If you would like to know more about Write…Edit…Publish go here and the Insecure Writers’ Support Group go here I wrote a short story for February, theme, 28 DAYS that you can read here I […]
Read More ⌗WEP-IWSG Challenge, 1st June 2019, Sign-UpGood Morning my fellow bloggers and faithful followers. Today, after a week in Bordeaux for the World Impact Summit, I will be talking about the book I have been reading for over a month now. Why the slow progress ? Because, first of all it is long, 713 pages, then because it is such a […]
Read More ⌗Barkskins, May 28th 2019Good 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 […]
Read More ⌗SunshineBloggerAward, May 16th 2019It’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. […]
Read More ⌗FMF, May 10th 2019, PRACTICEThe 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 […]
Read More ⌗AtoZ April 2019 Challenge, REFLECTIONS, May 6thHello 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 […]
Read More ⌗SundayBrunchit’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 […]
Read More ⌗FMF, May 3rd 2019, OPPORTUNITYSorry 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 […]
Read More ⌗IWSG May 1st 2019, monthly postZ 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.
Read More ⌗AtoZ Challenge, April 30th 2019, Letter ZzzzzzzX 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.
U is for UBER
photo : Moon in our garden, March 2019.
T is for Trunk
photo : WAZA Park, North Cameroon, 31/12/1988.
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.
Read More ⌗FMF, Five Minute Friday, April 19th, NEXTphoto : 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
Read More ⌗AtoZ challenge, April 19th 2019, letter QHere 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 !! […]
Read More ⌗AtoZ challenge, April 17th 2019, letter O for Originsphoto Braga, Portugal, July 2017.
Read More ⌗AtoZ challenge, April 16th 2019, letter N for Nothing, NowhereHere 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 !! […]
Read More ⌗AtoZ challenge, April 13th 2019, letter LHere 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 !! […]
Read More ⌗AtoZ challenge, April 12th 2019, letter KHere 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 !! […]
Read More ⌗AtoZ challenge, April 11th 2019, letter JElie du Bois, Dordogne, 7th April 2019. One of our neighbour’s garden.
Read More ⌗AtoZ challenge, April 10th, letter IHere 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 !! […]
Read More ⌗AtoZ challenge, April 9th, letter HPhoto : from a canvas outside the Mongolian Yourte, at the Musée Labit, Toulouse.
Today, G is for GLEE.
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 !! […]
Read More ⌗AtoZ challenge, April 5th 2019, letter EIt’s the Insecure Writers Support Group day. Every first Wednesday of the month. Post your answer to the question of the month. Share with other insecure writers, comment on their posts, and spread the word. If you would like to join the IWSG, go here Every month, we announce a question that members can answer in their […]
Read More ⌗IWSG, April 3rd 2019Sculpture garden for Easter, April 2014, Chambourcy.
Read More ⌗AtoZ Challenge, April 4th 2019, letter DHere 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 !! […]
Read More ⌗AtoZ Challenge, April 3rd 2019, letter CHere 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 !! […]
Read More ⌗AtoZ Challenge, April 2nd, BGood Morning April Fool. 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 […]
Read More A to Z Challenge, April 1st 2019It’s Friday again. We are officially in Spring. I am participating in the FMF, writing challenge. Write for five minutes flat every Friday and post your entry on your blog and on the Facebook group FMF. You don’t have to be on “fesses-bouc” as we chide in French, to participate. Just go to the Landing page […]
Read More FMF, March 29th, MEASUREFIVE MINUTE FRIDAY CHALLENGE It’s Friday again. We are officially in Spring. I am participating in the FMF, writing challenge. Write for five minutes flat every Friday and post your entry on your blog and on the Facebook group FMF. You don’t have to be on “fesses-bouc” as we chide in French, to participate. Just […]
Read More FMF, March 22th. REWARDHere 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 […]
Read More ⌗FMF, Five Minute Friday, March 15th, PLACEI am posting with the Five Minute Friday challenge. Write during five minutes flat, on every Friday, with or without using the word prompt given every Thursday evening. If you would like to participate, sign up herehttps://fiveminutefriday.com/linkup/ MORE “Please Mr Bumble, can I have some more…” Oliver asked in a small, quivering squeak. “MORE !” thundered […]
Read More #FiveMinuteFriday, March 8th, MOREHello fellow writers. I am partipating in the FMF Challenge for the first time after the WEP-IWSG 28 days challenge. If you would like to join the FMF Challenge, go to this link : here https://fiveminutefriday.com/start-here/ SEARCH I keep forgetting things, dates, names . So when I remember that I’VE FORGOTTEN something, I write it […]
Read More ⌗FMF Five Minute Friday, SEARCHMy sister Kathleen in 2005, with my middle daughter Emma, 7 then.
Read More ⌗28 days, February 27 th, Commit