Dun dun dun! Friday the 13th is a date that has become associated with bad luck, but why? What is the history behind a date that’s become so feared? There’s the number 13. 13 has long held significance as a bad number. There is an event in Norse mythology, featuring a gathering of 12 gods. […]
What’s your all-time favorite album? What a question! I am not a collector or buyer of albums, at least, not these days. If I had to pick an album I have listened to quite a lot, it would be the debut album of Christina Aguilera (not gonna lie, teenage crush, right there), where Ms Aguilera […]
Am I comfortable with my sexuality? That’s a question with an easy answer: yes. I am a heterosexual man, and secure in that. I am at ease in the company of people occupying different parts of the sexuality spectrum, and do not feel threatened by expressions of love or affection from anyone. Some people get […]
How often do you walk or run? Depending on your definition, I walk every day. I walk to and from work. When I take my daughter to or from school, there are stages of the journey that we’ll walk. If the prompt means ‘power walk’, or walking for exercise, then I’d have to admit I […]
How do you celebrate holidays? Any particular holiday? All of them? Well, I guess we’ll look at what are historically two of the UK’s biggest holidays: Easter and Christmas. As a kid, Easter was about Easter Eggs. Big, delicious, chocolatey Easter Eggs. As an adult, not much has changed! Easter Sunday also happens to be […]
Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail. This ‘kat has a couple of examples of some spectacular cookery cock-ups. They’re not necessarily what some would consider culinary catastrophes, but for me, they most certainly are. First up, there was the ‘nearly taking my eyebrows off using the grill’ moment. I fancied a bacon […]
To preen is to behave or speak with obvious pride or self-satisfaction. I dare say we’ve all had moments when we’ve been pleased with ourselves, but when does a display of pride become irritating? When does an attempt to strut one’s stuff become inconvenient to others? That’s where I’m going with this prompt, which is […]
Spam is the evolution of cold-calling and tele-marketing. I believe it’s as simple as that. In ye olden days (The 80s and early 90s to me!), the pre-internet era as it were, saw ‘spam’ take the form of people knocking on doors to try and sell you various wares. It also saw you receive random […]
Where do rights to criticise begin and end? This is the concept I wish to explore within this particular prompt. In many respects, the right to criticise can be considered an inalienable aspect of freedom of speech. My view is that nothing should be free from criticism. If your confidence in your ideology, beliefs, or […]
Here comes a topic to which I have devoted a great many words, both here on Meerkat Musings, and on the Coalition of the Brave site. The links are to two of several posts that discuss feminism, and there are plenty of posts that feature feminism as an overlapping subject. However, thus far, there is […]
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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