Category: bloganuary
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Home
What irritates you about the home you live in? Being home is where I’m athere I put my yoga mat,set my bed and lay my hatMake a rod for my own back. Feeling home is where my heart is,there my soul and spirit parties,enjoys some food and feeds the cat.Prays to love just where I’m…
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Palette
What colour describes your personality and why? Introverted… silver white,the shining lining.iNtuitive… of a grey cloud,imagining rain.Feeling… a wintergreen dream,of things to come.Perceptive… it’s all connected,organic brown.Turbulent… trendy pink,makes you think.Because it’s winter.
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Vegan
What’s your favourite meal to cook and/or eat? Nuts and berries, veg and fruitDips and sauces, saladsFresh tender leaves, lambs lettuce,Rocket, cress.Sweet ripe tomatoes,Piquant pickled chillies, olives,Toasted sunflower seedsDressed in sesame oilAnd dark balsamic vinegar. Clear soup or fruit juice,Sparkling dandelion wine.Hot chocolate, coffee,Cups of green jasmine tea.Sherry, Ginger cordial,Spiced mulled herbal claret.A barley lemon…
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Sandboy
Describe the happiest day of your life. Building castles in the sandon a sunny-summer day.With a plastic spade in hand,bucket turrets is serious play. Carefully construct a moatfor when the tide comes in,on frilly-frothy wavelets floatto enclosing a little realm. Such happy place to be,that salty-sandy bay.When swishy-soothing sea-bright air blew sweet-time away.
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Cherries
Do you have a memory that’s linked to a smell? Roasting coffee beans, shining darkripe cherries on a hot summer day…my mind is back in a Rome café. Colourful hustle and bustle, lookas a scent of vanilla wafts my way,ice-cream vendor swirls iced dolce. On a bank of the Tiber’s roiling wavesI recall the smell…
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Mystic
What fear have you conquered? Fear of the dark consumed me.Sounds in the night loomed large.Wild blood curdling screeches harbourdanger. Whispers, rustles, scuttling… cant see!A blackness with imaginings to fill.Goblins, trolls and strange implings,Terror and fearsome anguished things.Storybook spooks gave me chills. And then not long before one dawn.A grey shape bathed in moonlight droveaway…
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Double decker bus
What is your preferred mode of transport? Forget about travelling on trains,or embarking on ships,or taking to the sky in planes. A private car for a road trip,a horse and cart chaise,a motor bike, all dismissed. To see the world go by,trundling along the lanes,tyres on the ground, head in the sky. Aimlessly watch the…
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Spend
If you had a billion US dollars how would you spend it? When rock and roll band Alice Cooper hit the top of the global music charts in the 1970’s they could afford to put money into what they did best as musicians and theatrical artists and recorded a song about it. In fact a…
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Chores
What chore do you find the most challenging to do? Although most household chores can be a bit tedious recycling has got to be top of the challenging pile these days. It started optimistically as a responsible way to help save resources and reduce ever growing quantities of waste but when you get down to…
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Success
How do you define success? To define this in the most black and white terms I shall say winning a football match! Following football is not my forte, but this season, witnessing the success of Newcastle United ‘The Toon’ advancing up the Premier League has been exhilarating. From being in the doldrums for years, new…
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