Monthly Archives: February 2014

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY and WEEKLY PET CHALLENGE: Natural Higher-archy.

Posted on February 26, 2014 by colonialist

WP has been messing me around horribly on this post.  It has put in extra copies of the picture, left off badges and links, and generally gone haywire.  A perfect preview comes out as a messed-up post. *Here insert words … Continue reading →

Posted in Cats, Dogs, Photography, Wordplay | Tagged , , , | 26 Comments

Lifestyle Change, Literature, Limericks and Lizard

Posted on February 24, 2014 by colonialist

  With my being rather caught up in the inexorable progress of our impending lifestyle change,  both writing and blogging have again suffered.  Mind you, I did manage to add 22 000 words to the novel in two weeks, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Personal Journal, Photography, Really Awful Rhyme, Wordplay, Writing | Tagged , , , , | 46 Comments

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: THREES: TREK TRIO

Posted on February 22, 2014 by colonialist

Weekly Photo Challenge © Colonialist February 2014 (WordPress)

Posted in Horses, Nature, Personal Journal, Photography, Roving, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged , , , , , , | 26 Comments

Recent Resident Portraits

Posted on February 20, 2014 by colonialist

                © Colonialist February 2014 (WordPress)  

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Six Word Story Challenge: Dilemma

Posted on February 19, 2014 by colonialist

The Figments of a Dutchess Challenge: Write a six-word short story on ‘Dilemma’.   Dial Emma? Not? Can she forgive?   A horny dilemma:  who to ring?   © Colonialist February 2014 (WordPress)

Posted in Challenge, Flash Fiction, Short story, Wordplay, Writing | Tagged , , , , | 18 Comments

Certificate of Existence

Posted on February 18, 2014 by colonialist

  This is an announcement that I am, to the best of my knowledge and belief, still alive. Also, that I have been caught up in rather a whirlwind of different distractions. One of these is tilting at the windmill … Continue reading →

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RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AND HORROR

Posted on February 16, 2014 by colonialist

  Religious songs can make you face A lunchtime of coercion, For, if you sing a maize-zing graze, You may well get corn version! CORNFUCILONIALIST HE SAY: When you make of yourself someone you enjoy being, other people enjoy being … Continue reading →

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WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: TREASURE: A LITTLE LIFE

Posted on February 14, 2014 by colonialist

(CORRECTION AND APOLOGY:  This post was prepared on the Friday prompt of Smitten rather than the Weekly Photo one of Treasure.  Well, after all that effort it is blanketty-blank-well going to be squeezed into the Treasure category whether it flippin’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds, Challenge, Humour, Photography, Really Awful Joke, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wordplay | Tagged , , , , , , | 43 Comments

YUCKY THINGS LOOKING UP REALLY AWFULLY

Posted on February 13, 2014 by colonialist

Each bloom may well be a looker, But, to hide there on their Yucca, One supposes is for reason That they’re guilty of High Trees-on!  ‘Ghosts in Graveyard’sometimes known as, Not as edible are shown as An asparagus would be, … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Humour, Nature, Really Awful Rhyme, Wordplay | Tagged , , , , , | 30 Comments

PORTMANTEAU POST

Posted on February 12, 2014 by colonialist

After writing down the following, it occurred to me that it would take hardly any tweaking to turn it into another entry for the Short Story 77 Challenge on the theme of The Way.  WHICH WAY? Conversation with granddaughters today, … Continue reading →

Posted in Beach, Cats, Challenge, Flash Fiction, Humour, Ocean, Photography, Short story, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , | 29 Comments