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An interview with me
Read more: An interview with meInterview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses. The challenge said someone? So, to think out of the box I thought I would interview me. So today, I am both, the questioner and the interviewee, so here are the fives questions I’m going…
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I pledge allegiance….
Read more: I pledge allegiance….I pledge allegianceAre you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you 365 days of writing prompts – August 31st I know it’s a very old challenge and the PDF dates it back to 2013, but I thought I would give it a whirl. Patriotic you ask? Yes, I am, I pledge my allegiance to…
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So why are you single…
Read more: So why are you single…Here she was, 50 years old and was widowed, early last year, just before her 49 birthday. Colin was her life, her children were her life, her job was her life. Everything was her life except a social life. In the early days, friends would visit, invite her to dinners, but nothing replaced Colin. Colin…
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Uncertain
Read more: UncertainHow are you feeling right now? Wary and uncertain That is how I’m feeling at the moment. Wary of who will become PM next Monday. All I think to myself is this, both Truss and Sunak were in Boris’s cabinet. Both of them knew about the sleaze and #partygate and did nothing. And I wonder…
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The Future…
Read more: The Future…Fast forward to February 2023… The heatwave of Summer 2022 didn’t break until the end of Mid-November. But what a shock people had, after months of extremely high temperatures, a weather system had swept in from Siberia. Forecasters were warning, there is no end in sight of this weather front moving away. It was dominant…
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Fandango’s Provocative Question #179
Read more: Fandango’s Provocative Question #179Fandango’s Provocative Question #179 Have you been on a vacation/holiday in the past three months? If so, did you take any precautions against contracting COVID? If you haven’t been on a vacation/holiday in the most recent three months, when was your last vacation/holiday? If you’re planning to go on vacation/holiday within the next six or…
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She’s all cleaned out…
Read more: She’s all cleaned out…The Dempsey’s were an upper-class family, living in the heart of Kensington London. Lord Jack Dempsey is a retired banker and a former MP for one of the boroughs of London. Jack who married Beatrice Carswell back in 1954 had two children and lived a life of luxury. Beatrice, never in her entire marriage cleaned…
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Christmas – Not again…
Read more: Christmas – Not again…It was a cold late December afternoon, with only 2 days till Christmas, as she skuttled hurriedly around the shops, panic buying. Hot and flustered she joined the queues, after trying to get to the goods on the shelves, that were being blocked by people chatting in the aisles. Sometimes this turned into a little…
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Scamming the scammer
Read more: Scamming the scammerIf Johnny knew anything, he knew how to scam… he could make a buck or two out conning even the thriftiest person on the planet. He had charm, he had grace and most of all he had the looks. Hearts would melt and bingo he’d lay his trap again. He would never stay too long…
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Times gone by
Read more: Times gone byAs she looked in her handheld mirror at her aged face, with its wrinkles and age spots, she dreams of going back in time to when she was a winsome young lady. Days of when, men would fall at her feet. Only this time she wanted to be young in the 21st century… and not…
Bacardi Girl
…On the loose with the Booze… And Fighting Cancer…
Bacardi Girl 