As I write this, the England Women’s national team is engaged in a penalty shootout with Nigeria, in the Round of 16 at the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. They would go on to win the shootout 4-2, and book their place in the quarter-finals. An England team winning a penalty shootout […]
This is the question posed by my friend Ariel Lynn, of Writing Radiation. She posed it as a comment on a previous prompt, which was about music at work. The answer is… none! Well ok, the answer is ‘mostly none’. You see, I do a fair bit of my writing (be it for stories or […]
Wow. This time last year, my family and I were in Menorca. The weather there was usually above 30C every day. Even here in the UK, we had a few occasions where the weather touched 40C in August, and it was generally quite hot all summer long. Flash-forward to this latest Meerkat Muse, and things […]
Now, you may be thinking ‘I know all about that lovable cartoon character’, but what if I told you I was writing about a completely different Timon? You see, Timon is the name of an individual who lived waaaaaaaaay back in Ancient Greece. It’s believed he was alive at some stage between 431 BC and […]
Lest the descriptions and pictures in this post be called ‘food porn’, let it be said there’s a faintly serious edge to this prompt, and it is inspired by something I wrote virtually two decades ago. Frivolous lawsuits can a source of amusement, but they can also be irritating. It turns out their very existence […]
Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day back on the 5th of August was ‘antihero’, and I think by now we all know of antihero characters across fiction! The most obvious example I can think of would be the popular comic-book character Venom, who has gone from outright to villain, to a protagonist who operates largely out […]
Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone. This prompt just so happens to tie into a previous prompt, and a much older post, dating back to 2016. I am pleased I stopped to help a person in distress; I was less pleased by the length of time it took me to […]
Inspired by a recent visit to the Big Smoke, I thought I’d write a post that examines England’s capital, the bustling city of London. Londinium London’s history can be traced to Roman times. Whilst there is evidence for scattered, limited settlements in the general area (some of which have been dated to 4500 BC, making […]
Dictionary.com defines quiddity as ‘the essential nature of a thing’. My first thought went to Family Guy’s Quagmire, and his catchphrase ‘giggity’, but I think that carries a very different meaning! Quiddity is one of those words that virtually never comes up anymore. I didn’t even know this word existed until I wrote this prompt, […]
Toothpaste. We’re all hopefully familiar with the stuff. I had a thought about it the other day, and I recalled The Toothpaste Talk too, so I figured, why not develop this into a post? As a kid, toothpaste had one ‘flavour’, and maybe a few variations on that flavour, but toothpaste was, as a rule, […]
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...
Now pay attention please. CLASS DISMISSED. Beetleypete’s Classroom: Lesson Three Love love love this!
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