Write a story about the WEATHER in just six words. Let a photo or image inspire you to write a story. Or first write the story, and then make or search for a picture to go with it.
Snow behind Inhlosane, near Dargle in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands
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‘Golf, Sunday?’
‘Weather permitting …’
It didn’t.
© Colonialist October 2013 (WordPress)
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Brilliant! 🙂
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You’ve known it to happen! 🙂
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Yes I have and I expect it will again…and again…and…
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I’ve never thought of you as a man of few words, Col, but your extremely short story really works so well. Was the photo taken in 2008?
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Thanks – I can cut down if I need to, like ciggies … 🙂
I think it was the 2008 one.
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I dub thee Sir Succinct 😉
mind you, personally the weather is never right for playing golf 😉
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Men have been known to dream up sillier pursuits …
… but not many. 🙂
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Indeed, not many.
I’ve never gotten the whole golf thing, and never the total take-over it creates in these men’s lives.
Complete silliness!
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Isn’t it amazing that if one can swat that little blob well enough, one can make megabucks?
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Oi, Col, that is a real-life story in only six words. I love it! Well, I don’t love the fact that you weren’t able to play golf, but you know what I mean 😉
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Thanks for another good theme!
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You could always paint your ball a different colour so that you could spot it in the snow 😉
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After it has plunged gleefully into a snowdrift?
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Yikes. Perfect response to the theme.
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I do hope I managed to get an actual story into those few words!
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That would not have been fun golfing in that weather!
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Some would claim that holds good for ANY weather!
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very good 🙂 said it in six!
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Thanks – for that shot, it was all I needed!
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Wow, that’s a wintery looking shot
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And definitely a rare one, for South Africa!
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Got soaked seeing student out tonight. 😀
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As in ‘wet’ rather than in ‘inebriated’. I trust!
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LOL, rained-on. Inebriated would make a nice change. Good point there. I’ll have some sherry if you do too? I joined the Officially Insane and signed on for NaNoWriMo, probably only to see whether someone who can’t stick to a diet or program for three days, can endure a schedule of a whole month’s storytelling. 😀
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I like the idea of the writing discipline it provides, but prefer trying to use such discipline towards getting further with unfinished business!
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In principle I agree. But I think I need a restart, somehow my battery has run flat.
Not to worry, I’ll still get around other necessary stuff – I write really fast, and for me it’s not really so much about the winning at all cost but about the curiosity if I can do it without compromising what I’m already doing.
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These types of challenges are indeed hard to resist from the point of view of testing oneself!
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Och mon, ye daft yankees cannae stand a wee bit of snow on the green! Ye could hae played with Orange Balls. 😛
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I’ve been known to do just that in my long ago golfing days.
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My golf balls should be micro-chipped so that I can locate them with a tracking device.
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Dinna ye ken, tha’ in Scotland wi’ the kilt, the men always play wi’ blue balls? 🙂
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I almost suggested blue balls . . . but refrained.
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Your restraint does you credit!
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The manner in which our weather is behaving I am asking what the heck is golf 🙂
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Yes, I imagine that if you’d tried it recently your ball would have got a hole-in-one – on another course!
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