@theweyman
Active 7 years, 8 months ago-
Terrie replied to the topic Monthly Competition – February 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 4 months ago
The Emporium.
I’d been watching the place for a while and now I was ready.
The tiny shop by the empty mill was cobwebbed in layers of age and the light inside flickered with a hospitable glow. The antique-looking sign over the bottle-glass door announced it was an “Emporium Of Returned Things”.
It was out of the way and the perfect place…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 8 months ago
Wowser…spoilt for choice! Thank you all for taking my three little words and turning them into lots of great stories. As always, the three objects were used in very different and clever ways. So…
Sandra – there’s something about a pipe-smoking detective, isn’t there? Lovely piece, with the rat almost in the trap until the detective took his…[Read more]
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Thank you for a good challenge, Squidge. Congratulations, Sea, well deserved, though I enjoyed all of the other stories too.
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Squidge posted an update 2 years, 8 months ago
aaargh! Apologies, such a busy day at church yesterday, totally forgot I needed to judge the comp! Am on it now…
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Squidge posted an update 2 years, 8 months ago
Only a few days left to get something into the monthly comp… Looking forward to reading the entries!
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Barny replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 9 months agoThe feeling is mutual.
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Barny replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 9 months agoThanks for organising this, Ath.
I really really intend to actually submit something this year.
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Barny replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 9 months agoWriting, Pistol, Serious.
See you in the library.
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Squidge started the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 9 months ago
Your prompt this month consists of three words:
wheelbarrow, street lamp, and a pipe (smoking)
Use them however you would like, in no more than 300 words. Have fun 😉
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly competition – August 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 9 months ago
Oh blimey! Did not expect that at all… Wow, thanks, Sandra.
Everyone else’s was fab. Feel a bit of a fraud having popped in here for the first time in ages and getting to set this month’s challenge, but I’ll do my best x
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Squidge replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 9 months agoI’m like John…I always join in the hope I’ll be able to write something. This year’s been a shocker for the novel, so a change of content would be most welcome!
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Jules replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 9 months agoReading, candlestick, comical
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Squidge replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 9 months agoReading, Spanner, Serious
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly competition – August 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 9 months ago
Not quite sure where this was going, but it felt good to respond to a prompt for the first time in ages… Also not sure why only a bit of the text unbolded when I was aiming for the lot! Ah well…
“In a yellow rectangle, in the black facade of a house, a woman is laying a table.”
He could have picked any window, of any house, in any str…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 3 years, 9 months ago
Dipping in to say hi… ridiculously busy at the mo with Life, so barely time to breathe, let alone write! How is everyone doing at the moment, following the Queen’s death? Whether you’re for the monarchy or not, it seems to have impacted nearly everyone I’ve spoken to in some way, shape, or form. Sending hugs if you need them x
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Doing well (I think). Similarly busy, especially yesterday when I was included in a tale of lost keys which necessitated a drive from Worthing to London and back.
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Even for a republican like me it does feel like the end of an era. Thinking about how as a Scout we had to make promises to do our duty to the Queen etc, and every time you see a post box or a coin, or hear The King, it feels strange. Very few people have known anything different – @athelstone that sounds like an incredibly trying day, was it all…[Read more]
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Yes, no harm done, thanks.
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Oh blimey, Ath…can imagine that being rather stressful.
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Busy here too, but yes, life seems to feel ‘on hold’ as we witness the end of an era. While not being an ardent Royalist, I did have a lot of respect for a queen who was the unwavering anchor for her family, showing how publicity could be done properly without scandalous revelations. I think I shall miss her.
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I had a very strong (and somewhat unexpected) emotional reaction to the death. She has always loomed large in my life as my father is an ardent royalist. I’d expected to feel a bit sad, as I did when Prince Philip died, but I burst into tears when I heard the news. We were in Scotland and very nearly passed the cortege from Balmoral to Edinburgh…[Read more]
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Jules replied to the topic Choices in the forum
All You Need 3 years, 9 months agoTown – Droop
Choice – yes there is
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Squidge replied to the topic Choices in the forum
All You Need 3 years, 9 months agoJewltown
Yes there is
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