Archives for: July 2007
Creative Writing CV
Sarah's extensive poetry and short story publications and competition successes.
Why read Sarah's blog?
This short piece should help people find their way round the various categories of my blog so they can get the most of the many posts on offer.
Love Bites
The poem I didn't enter for the writelink Battle of the Bards 24-hour contest on Saturday for reasons that will become obvious...
Nah-nah! (Don't ask about the spelling cos I don't know!)
I know it's childish but I can't help it: nah-nah, nah, nah-nah, I'm on holiday! - Or, at least, I will be by the time anybody reads this.
Unlucky Omen?
I think I may have jinxed myself with my post earlier this week entitled Lucky Omen? Fingers crossed! In it, I spoke about things not boding well for my entering the writelink Battle of the Bards competition today. I wasn't laughing at the irony then this morning, when I found out the theme of this year's contest.
Hot water - or an embarassing moment!
We have warmth and hot water again, hurrah! Actually, the whole thing is a bit embrassing really!
When I am big!
My four-year-old son has already told his younger brother (2) that he will be his Daddy when he is bigger! Today, he had a new announcement!
:Laughing logic!
The boys have had great fun today using me as a human slide. I hope they're still laughing when the effects of having no central heating or hot water kick in!
Glorious sun, dampened spirits!
Well, the sun lasted for the party in the park - not that it made any difference though, seeing as we got down there only to find it had been cancelled!
Lucky omen? Fingers crossed!
Blue skies! And I thought they didn't exist any more. Let's hope the good weather lasts for our town's 'party in the park' this afternoon - and, come to think of it, for our holiday next week!
The final straw!
I am seriously going on strike! No, seriously, I mean it; my pay's awful and the working conditions atrocious!
The wonder of women's creativity
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how creative we women are, even if we don't always do ourselves full justice.
Hopefully, we won't be flooded next!
We have spent most of the morning wondering if we will be next as roads flood, cars start to float and we hear tales of people nearby being evacuated. I wouldn't have believed it, if I hadn't seen it, as these pictures show.
Flooded!
It's been a wet day in Worcestershire, so wet that my parents-in-laws' house is now one foot under water and their lane flooded to about five foot high!
Linguistic lumber puncture!
Well, my elder son has tonsillitis and an ear infection and now his brother also has a high temperature. So all I have to offer for the moment are a few more of my cinquains (from the writelink cinquain game):
Opposites attract - or not!
The recent blog discussion on on misogynism and misandry has set me thinking. Is it really that men and women are so different they cannot fully understand each other? Or simply that for any close couple, the things that initially attract us to one another will, over time, become the things that cause most discord?
Inflammatory Language!
I shouldn't be surprised (so I don't know why I am!) that one of my two-year-old son's first words was "fart"!
Word Play
My four-year-old son seems to be coming out with a joke a day at the moment. And his latest offering, in particular, has given me pause for thought.
Men and PMT!
A challenge was thrown down elsewhere on writelink recently for a 'female warrior' to stand up for women against some men's apparent misogynism (eh, David). I wouldn't even aspire to that title but thought I would share a comment piece I had broadcast on yourkindatv on June 27 this year.
The colour of my skin
A few people have commented on my virtual skin ie my blog template so I thought I'd describe what I think the choice says about me - or not!
Ignorance is bliss - for everyone else!
Question: What do Big Brother and the Boom Town Rats have in common?
Answer: Nothing as far as I know, but they've both set me thinking this weekend!
Unlucky Friday the 13th?
I'm not superstitious, but I should have known, it being Friday the 13th and tipping it down with rain, that the day wasn't going to turn out as planned!
Oh no! The summer holidays already!
I can't believe it's here already! Today is officially the first day of my elder son's summer holiday and we've kicked it off in style - with my un-P.C. joke of this morning now explained (and don't I feel foolish!) and my elder son suffering from what looks like being tonsilitis again!
Well, it's funny for a four year old!
Another joke from my four year old: I'm not sure that it's really P.C. (so apologies if it offends), but he did get it off kids' T.V.
Question: Why aren't lepers any good at playing hide and seek?
Answer: Because they're always getting spotted!
Obsessed - me?
I have just finished reading the latest issue of Mslexia and was going to compare reading its new writing section to simultaneously having an orgasm and being slapped in the face... but my husband objected! 
Manic Monday - or should that be Sunday?
Panic set in yesterday when I realised my car's MOT should have been done a week ago! Our lazy weekend suddenly turned into a mad whirl of activity.
It must be a mirage!
The sun has got its hat on,
Hip hip hip hoooray!
The sun has got its hat on
and is coming out to play!
Competitive streak
My son is only four years old and already show signs of a very strong competitive streak. This has set me thinking (always a dangerous thing!) about how and why I got my own competitive nature and whether there's anything I can do about it.
No, this is not a joke!
Question: What's the quickest way to completely destroy one's chance of getting writing done of an evening?
Funny hee-hee!
My elder son came home from kindergarten with his second joke today. What did one dinner plate say to the other dinner plate?
A walk in the park?
Of course, I know I shouldn't be writing this.