Month: January 2019
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Photo Challenge #2 / A Small World
I was going to choose the prompt “Round/Square”, but looking at the list, I quite like “A Small World”. I have spent the day rooting around in my creative room sorting through beads and jewellery things. It surprised me to realise that we have been in this house for three years and most of the…
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Vanilla
I like vanilla ice-cream, and I like vanilla as an ingredient in cooking, but when I read this prompt, the meaning of “vanilla” that came to mind was the one where “vanilla” is used to describe sex, and from there developed into a general insult meaning boring, unexciting, plain, safe. Safe, now there’s a word…
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Photo Challenge #1 / More Please!
“Sea glass bottle stopper” / Theme: More please! Joining in with a Photography Challenge on Of Maria Antonia’s blog. I chose this photo not for artistic merit, but because it captures a moment in time. Wandering along the beach on the first walk of the year, on New Year’s Day, and my first beach treasure…
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My favourite quote ~ Maya Angelou
365 Days of blog prompts ~ “Quote me ~ Do you have a favourite quote that you return to again and again? What is it, and why does it move you?” “I decided many years ago to invent myself. I had obviously been invented by someone else – by a whole society – and I…
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Resolved
Once I kept a resolution about losing weight, but what I learned about other people’s attitudes to a woman losing weight made me resolve not to discuss losing weight on social media… Yesterday I wrote on this blog that I wasn’t making any resolutions because they usually end up as a Things Not Done list.…
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Stroke of Midnight Hogmanay
For the first time in as long as I can remember, I struggled to get excited about Hogmanay, the Bells, and the New Year. Social media was full of positive posts brimming with hope, and I felt the pull to pretend, but I am committed to not people-pleasing, because I have done quite enough of…
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New Dawn, New Day
Happy New Year! I walked in the dark to find sunrise, and found some fabulous beach treasures along the way. Maybe I will blog this year, maybe I won’t. No resolutions, they just end up as a list of Not Done Things.
Thrummie Bizzum 