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This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things
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| PROMPT May 30th Congratulations on making it to the last day of the competition! What was your favorite prompt from the last month? What was the most rewarding aspect of participating in the competition? I liked the smells of childhood prompt. The sense of smell, has always been important to me, memories flood back from certain smells. When I smell freshly cut grass I’m transported to hay making time. Walking through fields of drying grass when I was about ten years old. My mother’s perfume of course reminds me of being close to her. Farm animals, pigs especially, even though not actually pleasant, take me back to the past immediately. So many smells, so many memories. The reward for taking part in 30DBC is as always connecting to the other participants. Thank you so much, one and all. Hope to see you in July? |
| PROMPT May 29th We need your help filling the Challenge War Chest with new prompts for future rounds of the 30DBC! Write three of your own prompts and then use one of them to finish the rest of your entry. This month has flown by again. I know it’s gone at the same speed as every other month but... Anyway it’s been fun reading all your entries and points of view. New prompts are always tricky to come up with. Each one on 30DBC usually drags up some hidden or forgotten memory. What they always do is make me aware of my values and perhaps hidden biases. I’ll try to come up with something that doesn’t involve memories, childhood or vacations. 1. What are the core principles and values that guide everything you do in life? 2. Give five adjectives for these words. Cake Brussel sprouts Cheese Toe nails Rain 3. What makes you laugh out loud? 3. I laugh easily but not at contrived humour. I laugh at little children’s reactions when looking at a simple magic trick. I laugh at certain comedians, strangely they are both Scottish. Billy Connolly and Michael McIntyre crack me up. So many things, life throws up so many ridiculous scenarios it’s hard not to laugh. |
| PROMPT May 28th What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Oh I’m sure I’d have a crack at most things if the “but what if?” was removed from the equation. Paragliding was my first thought. The only thing that has stopped me is finishing plastered to a cliff face😱 Obviously I would write a novel which became a world best seller. It couldn’t fail to, could it? |
| PROMPT May 27th Write about your first _______. (You fill in the blank. Ex: first car, first job, first crush, first week at college, etc) Loved my first and only time in an Air Balloon. That experience has prompted me to write about the experience in various stories. The feeling left me breathless. First experience of Australia arriving in Perth 1972? Not very favourable if I was to be honest about it. What I imagined was nothing like the experience. The time was 2am, the weather was freezing July, the place a very dated airport, and the first night was spent in a very damp Graylands immigrant centre. There have been so many firsts I could talk about. Childbirth! Let’s not go there. First time being in control of a moving vehicle. Terrifying. Life is a series of firsts. Let’s hope there are still a few more before I die. |
| PROMPT May 26th Make a list of your top five short term goals and a separate list of your top five long term goals. What steps will you take to achieve them? Short term. Go for a walk down by the river tomorrow. Post the letter I’ve been carry around with me all week. Complete the 30day blogging challenge Worm treat the dog Call my friend tomorrow Long term. Get vaccinated Commit to my exercise programme Book that weekend away with friends we’ve been promising. Attempt to get my husband to dress smarter. 😩 Plan see our son and daughter-in-law in Far North Queensland |
| PROMPT May 25th Write about the most exciting, odd, or valuable thing you’ve found on the ground or abandoned on the side of the road. Invent a story about where the object came from and who owned it before you found it. Well, the most exciting, odd and valuable item I found on the ground was a bag of money. I went to a shopping strip and as I was just entering the post office I spotted a plastic bag on the ground. I picked it up, saw that it contained money and I asked in the post office if anyone had dropped it.. The Mail lady told me that she wouldn’t hang onto it as I suggested. She directed me to the police station. So I handed it in a total of nearly $600 and the policeman said if no one collected or claimed it in three months that it was mine! So I went back after three months fo see if anyone claimed it. No one had, so it was mine! Another occasion was when VCR’s were phasing out. A news agency was getting rid of his stock of videos. My husband bought them all for $50. We had them hanging around the house for over a year and I suggested we chucked them out as I was sick of seeing them. As I was throwing them away we decided to check inside the boxes. In one of them was $800. Someone had obviously decided that was a good hiding place and then forgotten where he’d put his cash. |
| PROMPT May 24th Write about a movie or television show you watched recently that blew you away. What lessons can you learn from the show and incorporate into your own writing? I can’t honestly say that a television show could blow me away.🤔 I haven’t been to the movies for over a year so no help there either. My portfolio is full of such a wide range of stories and themes I do wonder where my inspiration comes from sometimes, but certainly not from television. The last series I watched and enjoyed was Breaking Bad. There were some great characters in that certainly, but the subject material, drugs and murder aren’t something which inspires me. I do love a well written police drama, not American though. Line of Duty is an amazingly well written series. The dialogue is so impressive. If I could learn to write scripts and dialogue like that, I’d die happy.🤣 I’ve a leaning toward British programmes. |
| PROMPT May 23rd Write about nicknames. What nicknames do you have for people in your life? What nicknames do others use to refer to you? Do any of these names have an interesting story for how they came to be? Oh dear, this prompt is hard, I don’t usually give nicknames but in Australia particularly names always get shortened. My friends Karen and Gary are Kazaa and Gazza, I’ve found that a lot of people with nicknames which sound nothing like their proper names derived from a younger sibling’s attempts at trying to pronounce their names. My granddaughter who is thirty now still gets called Boo. Her name is really Beth but got called Bethyboo when she was tiny. It’s funny with our dog Lucy, she gets called so many different names like: Loopy, Loo loo, dog, Lucile. She comes to anything so long as you have food! |
| PROMPT May 22nd Write about the biggest challenge you have faced and how you overcame it. Life is full of challenges for most people. It depends on how you look at a situation as to whether it’s considered a challenge or not. Studying for exams, starting a new job, recovering from an illness, or persevering through pain, even the daily grind of raising children can be challenging. I’m not sure I can select one event, there have been so many. I suppose leaving England with a small child, travelling across the world and starting a new life was my biggest challenge, but even that move consisted of numerous individual ones, each one difficult in its own way. |
| PROMPT May 21st Write an open letter to a person or group of people you strongly disagree with and explain why. Use reason not emotion. This is a letter to a developer who wants to build a housing development in the hills of Perth after a devastating fire. I’m representing Save Perth Hills. . Save Perth Hills has written to our Premier, Mark McGowan advocating for an Independent and Open Inquiry into the Wooroloo Bushfire. This catastrophe was Perth Hills’ first Climate Change Mega-fire, destroying 87 homes and leaving more than 300 Hills’ people homeless. We’re seeking urgent clarification from Premier McGowan after correspondence from DEFS implied no formal decision has been made to even hold an inquiry. Each bushfire holds valuable new information to help us understand and manage our increasingly volatile environment, better inform our policy makers, specifically with regards to planning, and educate the Community on bushfire evacuation dangers. The extreme risks to people and property, that the Anglican Church and Satterley’s stranded urban North Stoneville plan would bring to our community, along with its non-compliance with WA’s Bushfire Policy 3.7, were reasons why WA’s Planning Commission’s refused it. Mundaring Council cited the same reasons for refusing, recently, new subdivisions in Swan View and Parkerville. Surely we need to learn from each and every bushfire so we can plan responsibly for a safer future. Mark McGowan– It’s been more than 3 months since this disaster. Why haven’t you announced a formal investigation? We urge you to officially call an Inquiry into the February 2021 Wooroloo bushfires - to offer closure to the hundreds of victims, and reassurance for the future of us all. |
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