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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS May 18, 2024 Olfactory.

Good morning, is that coffee I smell I reckon Dan or John got here before me and the coffee is on…. Is Linda up she’s had another hard week! Anyway as ever her prompt arrived on time yesterday. Her email said: “Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “What’s that smell?” Write the first thing that comes to mind. Enjoy!“

I could share many of all different smells but the best are of Mum’s cooking: Hot cross buns for Easter, cinnamon and dough. Mince pies and sausage rolls Christmas, roast meat and veg Sundays. No smell at all…it had to be Wimbledon fortnight during those weeks Mum was on strike, she loved the tennis so it was salad every day!
Tobacco, Dad smoked a pipe it was constantly in his mouth when ever I smell tobacco I think of Dad…I have often smelled that smell for no apparent reason.
Summer pudding made with stale bread and fruit always reminds me of mum.
Also treacle pudding and custard the first pudding I made hubby we both love it and the sweet smell of it cooking takes me back.
Then there is the smell of a baby that sweet milky smell and the aroma of , I can’t describe, of a baby cradled in your arms!
Recently we had a blocked drain which luckily hubby had the nouse and tools to fix….that was an awful stink …. undescribable !
Oh! and let’s not forget the smell of a male teenager’s bedroom…. unforgettable, undescribable ! I only had boys so can’t say about girls rooms but a boys 😕!
Cabbage , fish, burnt potato all nasty smells. Stale smoke, alcohol and body odour….I could go on but let’s just say there are good smells and bad smells and they all evoke sensory feelings and memories and feelings!

Memories are stirred
By senses olfactory
The scent of your life

THIS IS PART OF LINDAGHILL’S STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS SATURDAY.

Fibbing Friday !

Di at Pensensitvity101 said : “I’m recycling Teresa’s questions from May 31st 2019 for this week as I haven’t had any time to myself these past few days to come up with something else for you. Truth is not an option, whereas having fun is.
You can join in by writing a post with your answers and tag it #FibbingFriday.”

Well I thought let’s go mad and use clips of some of my favourite songs by Sam Ryder , REM, Gary Barlow and Imogen Heap with a random dance clip thrown in 💜

1. What did the fan say?

2. What really kicks off summer?

3. Who rules the world?

4. What is the best thing to do to someone who snores?

5. Who/what was your last unexpected house guest?

6. How does a blanket keep warm?

7. Why shouldn’t you snoop?

8. What is the worst thing that could happen to you?

9. What did the gopher and mole do when they met?

10. What lurks in your backyard?

Bonus question
11. What is the best way to torture someone?

Vavaboom!💜💜💜🎶🎶

Ovi Poetry Challenge 48: PROMISE is your inspiration.

A night of old with heart so bold
Offered fair maid a band of gold
She gave him her hand to hold
And he gave her his promise.

Their castle was cold and draughty
Yet their nights were hot and lusty
She, willing and he was trusty
Happily they kept their pledge.

PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S OVI POETRY CHALLENGE

Wordless Wednesday: Guess who missed them

part of Hughsviewsandnews and Terri Webster Schrandt’s Wordless Wednesday.

One-Liner Wednesday Anniversary.

This week Linda realls her first One-Liner Wednesday which was ten years ago!

Linda’s first One-Liner which was Wednesday March 19th, 2014: You can read it here. https://lindaghill.com/2014/03/19/one-liner-wednesday-chocolate-anyone/

Linda asks when was our fitst One-Liner well I looked it up and and it was a year later and in the same month! March the 11th 2015 and here is that post https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/one-liner-wednesday/

So happy 10th Anniversary to Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday and to all of us who join her. We rule 💜💜💜

Join us at One – Liner Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday Blogeley 💜💜💜

part of Hugh’s and Terri Webster Schrandt’s Wordless Wednesday.

LindaGHill One-Liner Wednesday. Family communications.

Hubby had a doctor’s appointment today , he went early as our reception staff can be very picky if you are even a few minutes late and will send you away….. Not so the doctors you can wait ages to see them with no recourse!

Here are some of today’s WhatsApps between us while he waits and waits!

Hubby: I’ve arrived 🤣🤣

Me :👌
Hubby: Thank you 🥰❤️
Me: 💜
Hubby 10 minutes later: Still waiting 😭
Me: That’s not unusual 😲😞
Hubby: Noooooooooooo😱
Me:

Hubby: 🤣🤣🤣🌹

Last I heard he was still waiting at least 20 minutes after his appointment time. 😲

Part of LindaGHill’s One-Liner Wednesday

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 33, 5/7/24, Part I, The Beginning of Summer.

The 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry challenge for #TankaTuesday focuses on the Beginning of Summer. It encourages poets to use kigo words or phrases related to the season in their syllabic poetry. Find inspiration in the seasonal changes and embrace the vibrancy of the month.

How does this time of year affect you where you live? Think about the seasonal changes. What descriptive words come to mind? If they work to define the season you’re in, add them to your kigo list.

This week I have settled on doing an Abhana (which is a 4-line stanzas with 6-6-6-4 syllables each. L2 and L3 rhyme. The end rhyme scheme is abbc) My Kigo words are, spring blooms, summer sun, silver moons , chanable weather..

Perfidious summer

Weather confounds me now
Everywhere pink spring blooms
Nights full of silver moons
Fluffy clouds drift.

Yesterday, high summer
Monday a wet Autumn
Today thick fog then sun
Who knows what’s next

Summer waits in the wings
I think she has stage nerves
The fields full of spring herbs
It’s all quick change

Ladies when you’re ready
Get your act together
We can’t wait forever
Make up your minds

Part of Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge.

Song Lyric Sunday: American Idol.

Good Sunday Morning everyone. It’s time for Jim Adams Song Lyric Sunday. .

May 5, 2024 – Songs by performers from American Idol suggested by Nancy aka The Sicilian Storyteller. This is Nancy’s final week as guest host and what a Stirling Job she has done providing us with great prompts. Yea! Nancy.

Now I am from the UK so in fact I have never watched American Idol. So I have done a lot of YouTube and Wikipedia traling. I have come up with four of the “best” according to YouTube. These are the ones that caught my ear and some information about them. I know I am supposed to give the lyrics but that would make this post way too long so I am going to break the rules this week…. 😱 So here we go first up is “Dibesh Pokharel (born October 24, 1997),known by his stage name Arthur Gunn, is a Nepalese-born American singer-songwriter from Wichita, Kansas, who came to national attention in 2020 as the runner-up finalist on the eighteenth season of the singing reality show American Idol. He started singing in 2014 and is known for his “textured, sandpapery” vocals. He released his eight-song debut album, Grahan, in early 2018. He released another album, KHOJ, in 2019 with singles including “Ma,” “Khoj” and “Karnali (The River). More information here. “

Second up is “Catie Virginia Turner (born February 14, 2000)^[4][5] is an American pop singer. She rose to prominence as a contestant on sixteenth season of American Idol, placing in the top seven. In September 2019, Turner further gained notoriety after her song “Prom Queen” was used in the trailer for Shane Dawson‘s web series The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star, which gained over 11 million views in just one week. She has released four EPs: The Sad Vegan as an independent artist, followed by Heartbroken and Milking It, Comedy & Tragedy: Act I, and Comedy & Tragedy: Act II with Atlantic Records. More information here.”

Third on the list is “Abi auditioned in Los Angeles. She sang “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish, from the Barbie film soundtrack. All three judges voted “yes”, sending her to the next round.

One week later, the judges surprised her via a video message at the Palm Springs Street Fair, where she frequently gigs, informing her that her Golden Ticket was upgraded to a Platinum Ticket, which enables her to skip the Idol Arena stage. More Information Here“

Last but nowhere near last “Walker Burroughs auditioned in Louisville. He sang “Love Like This” by Ben Rector and “Hello” by Lionel Richie. All three judges voted “yes”, sending him to the next round. Read more here. “

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Then I found this , one of my favourites James Blunt singing with IAM Tongi. William “Iam” Guy Tongi (born September 1, 2004) is a singer who won season 21 of American Idol. He is the first person from Hawaii, the first Pacific Islander, and the first non-country singer in three years, to win the competition. He is also the first winner to have been born after the show’s premiere on June 11, 2002. More information here.

Happy Sunday Everyone and thanks again Nancy 💜💜💜

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS May 4, 2024.

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “note.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

There are many … musical notes, 🎶, written notes, high notes and low notes and they are not only musical they can refer to high or low points in your life.

Money can be referred to as notes, you can write a note to anyone even yourself. You can remember noteworthy things, people or books absolutely anything at all. To make a note is to remember.

Would I write a note to a younger me.. No I really don’t think that I would because I don’t believe we can go back in time and change anything. I believe that if we changed anything we would probably make things much worse. To be honest I believe it would do more harm than good. If I knew then half of what I know now I would never make the trip. That said I actually wouldn’t change a thing because I love my family and friends and pets …. My life hasn’t been a bed of roses but who’s is? If anyone tells you they have the perfect life and they wouldn’t change a thing, I am sorry they are lying. So make a note to take Facebook and possibly peoples blogs with a pinch of salt.

So note to self … don’t give in and don’t give up! Never worry about what’s gone…it’s done , no point in worrying about what’s coming because it’s unknown and may never happen. Life is in the now so all you can do your best. …So I have actually made a note for my younger self … but nothing too leading.