Stuff in the ‘Challenges’ Category

037: Dear Monday

Joining with Megan from The Happy Day Blog. You can see her post here. Dear Monday, I gave in, I got up this morning and went to work – I’d been at work about ten minutes and my colleague commented how ill I looked – and I agreed with her – I felt like my [...]

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031: 100 Words Challenge (Week 29)

You can find the prompt here. 100 Word Challenge: Week 29 I call her from the other side of the world and her phone goes straight to voicemail. “Mum, I’m pretty sure when your only daughter is the other side of the world, you don’t ignore international calls in case it’s an emergency.” I paused, I [...]

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021: 25 Before I’m 26 (An Update – 3/4)

Back in April when I turned 25 I wrote my 25 Before I’m 26 list. It’s now about 9 months through the year – I managed to complete another goal today so wanted to update you all. Read Love Wins by Rob Bell Take part in the “Messiah From Scratch” (Christmas 2o11) (Done – November 2011) Watch [...]

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016: 100 Word Challenge

You can find the prompt here. 100 Word Challenge: Week 27 This week is a bit different – rather than writing a story like normal, we are creating 100 word critiques of last weeks stories. Well first up I have to pick a story. I chose this one from HerMelNess Speaks: I looked down, aghast at the [...]

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013: Fill In The Blanks

1.   The last thing I ate was my dinner yesterday – so that was Shepherd’s Pie and vegetables – my Mum rocks! I helped dish up as she was trying to finish a bunch of stuff. My Dad helped me by serving the vegetables which were baby carrots, garden peas and sweetcorn – my favourites! 2.   The [...]

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011b: 100 Word Challenge: Week 26

You can find the prompt here. 100 Word Challenge: Week 26 It’s been one of those weeks where I can’t wait for the weekend to get here – then again I messed up my Blogging Plan this week. Hopefully I’ll get it fixed next week – instead today there are two posts. Anyway I will [...]

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001: Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!!!! Hey all! So I’m technically writing this at 7:30pm on the 31st December 2011 before I go to a party. Me and Our Sidekick are getting in the party mood by listening to Foster The People and Rizzle Kicks. (Then again CJ is dancing round upstairs to Bulletproof by La Roux.) Wishing [...]

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100 Word Challenge: Week 24 (Part 2)

You can find the prompt here. 100 50/50 Word Challenge So I chose Sally-Jayne‘s story to complete. Here is her first half. He’d guessed as soon as she’d refused the wine, and he wasn’t as happy as she’d hoped he would be. Winter was usually her favourite season, but the snow was coming down so heavily [...]

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100 Word Challenge: Week 23

I nearly avoided this one but I think I have something now. You can find the prompt here. It’s to the tune of O Holy Night which is one of my favourites. The idea is to take a traditional Christmas carol as make the words about dinner. Well my mine is Christmas food rather than [...]

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#Lakes2011: Day 6

I haven’t been blogging this week as the signal has been patchy and any computer time has been used to try and get some #nanowrimo done. (I’m 6.5k behind at the moment this goes up to about 8k tomorrow ouch!) I’m going to write about everything I’ve been doing when I get home but this [...]

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