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 another 1 000 yesterday. Today, zilch.
Anyway, for the amusement of visitors, here are a couple of limericks I recently put into Mad Kane’s blog from the first-line prompts:
A fellow was being obscene –
His humour was from the latrine;
But it came to an end
With him sent round the bend,
When flushed with success he had been.
A woman whose life was fast-paced
Let nothing at all go to waste,
Until, with a quickie,
She got in the sticky,
And to waist went some youth in her haste.
Finally, a recent rescue I picked up out of the pool:
© Colonialist February 2014 (WordPress)
Oh No-o-o-o-o. I don’t want you to move away from your slice of heaven that I have become attached to!
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Let me assure you – neither do I!
It is a done deal, though.
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Damnation!
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The problem with downsizing is you start out thinking I’ll throw away everthing I haven’t used in the last 15 years but as you get stuck in and get reminded of all the memories you finally adjust it to getting rid of things you haven’t used in the last 5 years. We are a family of hoarders.
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Glad you saved him (he looks like a him!). Nice limericks. Don’t talk to me about downsizing… Yuk. Not when you have lots of hobbies to take with you in case of boredom. Good luck!
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Not to mention decades of dedicated junk collection!
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Oh you do have a special way with words! Love the limericks.
And 22k words in one day? Yikes I don’t even THINK that many words in a full day!
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Thanks!
Nonononono – where did you get that idea? My best ever was just over 7000. This 22 0000 was over two weeks!
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What sort of lizard is that, Col?
22,000 words. Sheesh…you’re still on those drugs I see?
Limerick as groaningly excellent as usual.
Lifestyle change?
Does this involve moving? And if you coming up here let me know so’s I can hide.
😉
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I think it is an Agama of a kind which should only happen in the Cape.
There has been a bit of a slowdown, and Word tried its best to freeze and dump 1000 today.
Paradise lost – but probably stay in this region.
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Thanks for keeping us amused, but let your manuscript suffer.
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My ms is recovering, I hope!
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I want to live in your li’l stable of weird, weird rescues!
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I do seem to have been helping rather a lot of damsels (maybe) in distress lately!
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Yes, yes you do. I’m going to don a weird animal onesie and set myself up for a spectacular rescue.
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Lifestyle change?… I assumed you were pretty well fixed in position… love the limericks…
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We have been glued for nearly 40 years – but time to downsize.
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What a cutie! I am glad you rescued him Col. He is adorable! 😀
Love the limericks! Thanks for the smile.
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Cute indeed. I was pleased that his adventure didn’t even cost him his tail (if this type sheds them). He sat in my hand without wriggling.
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Awwww, how sweet! 😀
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Awesome progress . . . especially giving pending and impending changes. And FUN limericks!
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Those were some good sessions!
Glad you like the norty lims.
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Hahahaha! Loved the limericks! And the lizard is adorable! 🙂
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I feel in the mood to respond to your pic of the beast from the pond: a charitable habit, like producing a rabbit from a hat with the aid of a wand…
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That pond was our swimming pool!
I am glad it evoked a response.
Perhaps, in recognition of my act, one day his great granddaddy a hundred times that size, will appear to save me from peril …
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Ah, did you miss that earlier reponse was in the form of a limerick? PS This one isn’t.
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I feel in the mood to respond |
To your pic of the beast from the pond: |
A charitable habit, |
Like producing a rabbit |
From a hat with the aid of a wand…
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No, how could I possibly miss a poetical form such as this? You can see without doubt the way it stands out creating its own edifice.
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I would like to pretend that of course I instantly recognised it, but alas my sense of honesty overrides my conceit …
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I’ll pretend that I didn’t see the penultimate post and — wait! You actually spotted my ruse *cough* conceit of concealing a verse within an observation! Why, you’re a true poet, and now we all know it.
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I should be able to recognise that conceited ruse, as one of my characters speaks in verse throughout the book. Many people don’t notice.
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A closet Cyrano de Bergerac perhaps? I seem to remember the narrative in Richard Adams’ Watership Down breaking into concealed rhymed verse at various points.
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I found that if one is to stick to a rigid meter, it is quite tricky to make the word order seem natural.
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What a great addition to the word count…..I can’t get mine going anywhere at the moment.
What a funny creature from your pool 🙂
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I need to take advantage of the time of the year that, for some odd reason, I find the creative side of my novels gets going.
The kids enjoyed stroking him before release. He didn’t seem to mind.
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Your limericks made me laugh. Loved the toilet humour 🙂
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There is always something rather attractive about rhyme which sails close to the wind!
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😀
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your limericks always crack me up!
Congrats on the progress on your novel.
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Limericks have such an addictive rhythm to them!
Thanks – I hope I can keep it going. A novel is just a set of scribbles until one can type, ‘The End’.
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Congrats on your word count etc, and these are very good, they made me smile broadly… now got face ache 🙂
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Count is slowing …
I recommend a regular treatment of them so as to accustom the smile muscles to the exercise! 🙂
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I like scatological limericks! Well fone for the words.
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Well, mine are scattered but not too logical …
Thanks – hope I can keep it up!
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Your poems are all very good
and I’m sure you will write when you could
but 22,000 words is a lot
And the keyboard was possibly hot
but you did well, and from that I can tell
that your book will be a success
but don.t over do it, or you’ll live to rue it
even so it will still be the best
d
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My book keeps running into
big com per lick ations
And this fills me with some awful
Wriggle dem mon stra tions
Hope you’re right! 🙂
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