I want to say the year was 1990. I was on holiday at a caravan park in France, with my mum, dad, brother, and some family friends. We had hired some bicycles and we were riding them around in a small circuit, which included an uphill and downhill section. I am getting uncomfortable as I […]
The other day, I posted a Writing Prompt on the subject of criticism. It would seem this riled up one member of the peanut gallery, so I can only assume my words carried truth, or they would not have responded quite so hotly. The levels of hypocrisy from this particular troll have often been high, […]
A good question, and one I am struggling to find an answer for. It’s easy to address this from a hindsight point of view (50 years ago, people used landline phones and phone boxes on a regular basis, not anymore), but from the perspective of now, what is going to go out of fashion, to […]
To offer a cop-out answer, this entirely depends upon context. The exact nature of the criticism, and the manner it’s delivered, very-much affect how it’s received and responded to. I have in the past received what I regard as stinging, and unnecessarily cruel ‘criticisms’ from the radical religious right peanut gallery. Needless to say, the […]
What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in? What am I proud of about my cultural heritage? I guess, to answer that, I’d first need a clear understanding of just what my personal cultural heritage is. Fortunately, my digging into my ancestry has helped reveal a deeper picture of […]
What brands do you associate with? Interesting question. I don’t think I ‘associate’ with any given brand, unless you count the company I work for, and outside of work, I don’t tend to actively speak of it, unless asked. Brand loyalty is not a big deal to me. I have been ‘associated’ with the same […]
Today’s prompt is brought to you via the Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day. Nepotism is referred to as ‘favouritism based on kinship’. To put it another way, it’s the practice of placing people you like into positions of importance, regardless of whether they actually deserve to be there. We see this a lot in big […]
This was Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day back on the 26th of September. As is obvious by now, I am not playing by the rule of dates, so here we are, publishing this on the 16th of October. I’m such a rebel. Pavlovian is derived from Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, a Russian psychologist who won the […]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66893661 The above news article is a testament to the ingenuity of human endeavour. In 2020, the NASA spacecraft Osiris-Rex collected samples of rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu (incidentally, the asteroid considered the most dangerous by NASA, in terms of hitting earth any time soon). On the 24th of September 2023, a probe […]
What things give you energy? What provides me with power? What fuels this meerkat? Well, I have to give a mention to caffeine. My blood supply is surely part-coffee by now. I suspect this question is more philosophical than literal, but I will also give an honourable mention to food. Food gives me energy. That’s […]
Breached the 70K mark on my wip! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
This is just sheer absolute, exquisite beauty.
I have eaten too much pizza.
I don't think it's up to you to decide what's best for women, nor whether or not men can find them attractive...
This meerkat gets nervous about a lot of things. In an upcoming Prompt, I’ll talk about tardiness, and that sort of overlaps with this. Picture the scene. It’s a busy London station, and you’ve just bundled off the Tube, and up to the main concourse. You vaguely know when your train is, but you’re in […]
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