Try to imagine what the world was like for those in 1899. The first ‘true’ car had appeared in 1886, but it bore little resemblance to today’s vehicles. Planes were a nice, imaginary concept. Horse and carriage, and possibly trains, were the chief means of conveying people from one place to another. Telephones were extraordinarily […]
When you have a nearly-teenage daughter, you hear a lot of funny stuff. My daughter sent me a video the other day, and it is utterly strange, and perfect for this prompt: She also likes to suggest I like Sid the Sloth. I am a meerkat, dammit!
The place I do nearly all my writing is upon my sofa, with the laptop on my, erm, lap. Very occasionally, I’ll sit at the dining table, but that’s extremely rare. However, the dream would be a classic, old-fashioned personal office, like you see in stately homes, complete with a bookshelf filled with books, and […]
Recently, a religious fundie criticised the notion of tattoos, as part of a long-winded, and ultimately hypocritical rant, on bodily autonomy. There is the issue of tattoos. This has been a worldly practice for millennia. It is not biblical teaching to get a tattoo no matter how romantic or how much it honors another person. […]
Wow. This might just be the hardest prompt so far. An urban myth?! A new legend? A local nightmare? Maybe it would be a fun legend. After all, does it have to be scary or menacing? ‘Legend has it, that at every Full Moon, we all briefly become our inner furry’. Cue gluing feathers or […]
Well, I’ve already roasted Steven Gerrard, so I guess that answers the question of what I’d say to him, so I will instead speak of Nigel Mansell. Mansell was the 1992 Formula 1 champion, and he had the misfortune to be runner-up three times, before finally claiming the title. He won 31 races, had memorable […]
There are many words that can used to describe Diego Maradona. Mercurial, genius, ethereal, mesmerising, tortured, astonishing, and above all, brilliant. Maradona set an incredibly challenging standard for later Argentine stars like Lionel Messi, and also for himself. In fact, it might be said that Maradona was his own worst enemy. Maradona was born on […]
Hmm. I briefly, sort of covered this in an If Meerkats Could… post, but I can re-examine the notion once more. The inherent risk with time travel, is that you might do something that makes the world considerably more dangerous, or that ruins the lives of the very people you want to help. History is […]
This prompt requests a picture, but I don’t have a picture to share that’s my own, so I’ve shamelessly borrowed one from Ebay. I have a reasonable collection of Star Trek Micro Machines, though I no longer possess all the ones in the pic, and some of them I never owned. I sold my Enterprise-E, […]
It’s a new year, a fresh start, a new opportunity, yet David Thiessen of Theology Archaeology has decided not to look at his behaviour and attitude, and instead go after Bruce Gerencser, more than once. How very Christian… David has written three posts, two of which have come in the few days of 2023, bemoaning […]
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...
Ever since I was a cub, I have generally speaking been fond of swimming. I don’t do it often, but when I do, I enjoy it. I consider myself a reasonably confident swimmer, and I have few qualms about going out into the sea when at the beach (well, when I’m somewhere warm, with clear […]
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