Badge of Honour

While on a visit to a National Trust property Julia saw certain trees marked with an orange spot to identify those that were to be felled in order to let the rest flourish. Her 100 word challenge to us this week is to let our imaginations wander about the significance or otherwise of an ORANGE SPOT or what it may represent!

Here’s my 100 words …

They weren’t silent; they moved gaily among us, with welcome distraction and I reached out in welcome. I saw myself as they surely saw me – standing tall and straight, and flexing my long, lithe limbs, my crowning glory catching the sun and fluttering in the breeze. Such a grand specimen, they will think. They will wonder aloud about the things that I’ve seen, the storms I have weathered, the secrets I will never tell of their ancestors, and their ancestors’ ancestors. Here comes one … she honours me with the orange badge. Yes! She sees me as I see myself.

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Lynne AyersNovember 5, 2012November 7, 201225 Comments

100 word challenge, Musings

So Inclined

Julia wants us to be humourous this week for her 100 Word Challenge. With the prompt “… suddenly it was in my hand ….” this is my effort at trying to at least crack a smile – Continue reading “So Inclined”

Lynne AyersOctober 6, 2012October 7, 201219 Comments

100 word challenge, Musings

A Cat’s Age

This picture is Julia’s challenge this week, no word limit, although I’m thinking she thought there might be less and not more. It’s a birthday card for her son … I think she’s expecting some humourous inside messages … sorry. I put fingers to keyboard and this is what emerged – 137 words. And. just so we’re clear? I wouldn’t put this in a birthday card, to my son, or anyone else – somehow this transformed into a comment on aging. Continue reading “A Cat’s Age”

Lynne AyersAugust 21, 2012August 21, 201219 Comments

100 word challenge, Musings

Stress and the 6 year-old

Mummy tucked me in, kissed my cheek and slipped from the room. Light of the mid-June sun filtered through the drawn blind and my eyes lingered on the dancing shadows … but my thoughts returned, again, to school. With most of the exams behind me I wondered if I Continue reading “Stress and the 6 year-old”

Lynne AyersAugust 7, 2012August 7, 201225 Comments

100 word challenge, Visual Arts

100 word challenge

Julia’s prompt for the 100 word challenge this week is …. the line was drawn …. here is my take Continue reading “100 word challenge”

Lynne AyersJuly 28, 20126 Comments

100 word challenge

100 Word Challenge #47

Julia has given us a photo as the prompt for Challenge #47. Not so easy, I find. However, my fingers ran off at the mouth, so to speak, and I ended up with 403 words. So this became a challenge in editing, while trying to preserve the essence. This is my result – Continue reading “100 Word Challenge #47”

Lynne AyersJuly 2, 201214 Comments

100 word challenge

100 Word Challenge Week #46

Julia’s 100 word challenge – the phrase for this week is: “… in the dark recess of my mind …” As usual we have 100 words to add to these 7 making 107 altogether.

Here’s my piece – Continue reading “100 Word Challenge Week #46”

Lynne AyersJune 19, 2012June 19, 201220 Comments

100 word challenge

100 Word Challenge Week #45

Julia’s 100 word challenge – the phrase Julia has dropped on us this week is: “There is a real buzz about this place”. Here’s my piece – Continue reading “100 Word Challenge Week #45”

Lynne AyersJune 13, 20129 Comments

100 word challenge, Verse, Writing Challenges

100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week#44

Julia over at Julia’s Place hosts the 100 Word Challenge.

In keeping with the upcoming Diamond Jubilee celebrations Julia’s instructions were to write a poem. (!) [exclamation point mine] “It doesn’t have to rhyme or be specifically about the Monarch but it should capture the passing of sixty years. I will give you some poetic license with the number of words and say 100 words -ish!”

I haven’t joined in this before and I think I chose a hard one for a starter; I nearly gave it up as too difficult; I think I bent the rules in that it doesn’t portray the passing of 60 years very well … but it is 98 words. That’s pretty 100-ish! So I decided to have fun with it and this is the result. Continue reading “100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week#44”