Esther’s limerick challenge. Luck

Posted on June 3, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Challenge, Esther Chiltons blog, Funny, Luck, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Silly, WordsLeave a comment

Every week Esther Chilton posts a limerick challenge. This week’s Monday limerick word was “luck”.

Sometimes these are easy, other times hard. This week’s wasn’t bad.

Basically a limerick has two rhyming lines of a longish length, then two shorter ones that rhyme using a different pattern and then finally the last line is longer and goes back to the first type of rhyme. Have a go yourself on Esthers page?

My limerick is :

Finally I have had some good luck,

I found lots of gold in a truck,

it was hidden away,

in an old parking bay,

at the home of the Pirate called “Hook”!

I don’t have one

Posted on October 25, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged beans domestic science, Cheap, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2100, Food, Life, Luck, Memories, menu, school student, Thinking2 Comments

What food would you say is your specialty?

I had cooking lessons at school, the classes were called domestic science. I learnt to make all sorts of things in those lessons. They stood me in good stead. I learnt mainly baking, from rock cakes to Victoria sponges. But also things like Danish open sandwiches.

Then as a student I learnt to throw a meal together from scraps and at a low cost. Beans of many varieties were used together with lots of garlic and herbs and tomatoes. With some oil of course.

Later I learnt to cook a good approximation of things like chicken Kiev and other staples such as spaghetti bolognase. They probably looked messy, I was renowned for using chunky vegetables instead of chopping them finely.

So give me a few ingredients and I can try and rustle something up. The important thing is I can afford to eat, many people can’t, or are in situations where they cannot get food at all. I don’t know how I ended up being so lucky, I hope it lasts.

Love

Posted on April 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged fleeting, fondness, Happy, Life, Living, Love, Luck, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sad, TimeLeave a comment

Love writes a story

A thread in your life

It may be long,

Or short.

It may only exist in your mind

A fleeting idea

Gone in seconds

Or love might

Last a lifetime

Tie your tongue,

Close your eyes

Ignore reality

Hold you tight

Love can be

Wonderful or wicked.

I am lucky

To love.

Oil painting?

Posted on December 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Flavour, Food, Ingredients, Luck, Oil painting, Painting, Sharing, Taste, TrifleLeave a comment

Someone just put a comment on my Instagram account saying this combination of photos looks like an oil painting? It made me think about cooking. If something looks nice and colourful it should also be tasty. A collection of colours, textures, and the vessel the food is in all must have an effect on the psychology of how you taste and feel about a meal or a snack. I’m lucky to have enough to eat and a good choice of ingredients. I wish more people could have the chance to share.

up late/early?

Posted on October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged childrens book, College, Digital sketch, Dragon, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, Luck, Meeting, Project, WritingLeave a comment

I’m up messing about on my computer, I want to work out characters for a childrens story I hope to write and illustrate for my college project. I am not sharing what it will be called or the scenario. And given my bad grammar here I dont even know if I will be able to do it. But the saying goes that we all have at least one book in us. Mine might be a bit musty and old fashioned! I think I need dragging into the 21st century. I also want to find some watercolour sketches I painted years ago to illustrate this (its a very old project) wish me luck.

Eating chocolate icecream

Posted on June 25, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chocolate icecream, Eating, Food, greedy, Hunger, Life, Luck, Poverty, Tasty, Thinking2 Comments

Oh dear! After a couple of gin and tonics some chocolate icecream became too tempting. We’d only had a small evening meal and hubby was talking about cooking our breakfast tomorrow as supper tonight. So I had the bright idea of pulling a tub of chocolate icecream out of the freezer. Not healthy or good. But it tasted lovely.

The only way I can lose weight is not to buy nice things. I have to really restrain myself. A first world problem. People in most of the world wouldn’t even know what icecream is. Its an example of greed I guess. We can grow huge because we are sold empty calories. Sugar and fat in a delightful combination. And people starve. It’s a stark reality that there are too many have nots compared with those that have….. Yes I do feel guilty. Yes I should not be greedy. No I don’t have any real excuse. I was lucky to be born in a rich first world country. That should not stop me trying to help others and change my attitudes for the better.

Tired

Posted on April 8, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aches and pains, Age, Bacteria, Bug, Illness, Luck, Mask, Pandemic, Thinking, Tired, viruses, World4 Comments

Another day of a bug. I don’t think it’s covid, I think it’s some sort of cold. I ache and I’m tired, but I don’t have the covid symptoms thankfully. I usually go outside wearing a mask. But one day last week I forgot. But as I was not going in any shops I thought I’d be OK. But perhaps someone sneezed or coughed? And I try to stop breathing for a few seconds as I walk passed people….

I guess there will be a lot less bugs about as we sheild ourselves from the Pandemic. But it doesn’t mean there aren’t other illnesses out there. Waiting for some throat or nose to lodge in, or to be caught on your hand by touching a surface with bacteria or viruses that have landed on it.

Life… A convoluted mix of luck and confusion.

Sore shoulder

Posted on August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Health, Illness, Insurance, Life, Luck, NHS, Pain, Shoulder, Thinking3 Comments

It’s been about six weeks now since I think I hurt my shoulder. The doctors agreed I needed physios they sent me a letter to book an appointment. But there are no appointments. I’m still in pain and no further forward. I wonder if things will ever get back to normal (shoulder and life). I think it’s partly to do with tension. I haven’t got depressed but I seem to always be hunching my shoulders up. I might try and get to yoga again if it starts up again.

When I think about it though I can manage, I have been managing. What about all the people who never get treatment. Who live in poverty in rich and poor countries where health treatment is based on expensive insurance that doesn’t cover existing health issues. I know how lucky I am.

Almost a disaster!

Posted on August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Coursework, Disaster, Learning, Life, Luck, PowerPoint, Slides, Text, Word, WritingLeave a comment

I decided to type my work in PowerPoint because I struggled with word documents jumping around and the text ending up half way on one page and half on another.

PowerPoint relies on slides, so you have to fit your text into a space which is of limited size.

I’d created a new one and went to start typing, and bam! A page of text just disappeared. What? Where? For some reason I couldn’t see the back icon, I couldn’t restore the page! Panic!

Then I remembered that I had copied the text into a word document because I couldn’t find a word count on PowerPoint!

Phew. Restored slide. Lesson learnt. Now all I need to do is stop the cat jumping on the keyboard!

I wish I was….

Posted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Danger, Health, Hoping, Ideas, Luck, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Sad, Thinking, Thought, Values, WishingLeave a comment

Dancing at a barn dance,

putting up an exhibition,

displaying art on my craft stall.

Walking along the canal,

cycling through the countryside,

taking tea at a posh teashop.

Visiting a castle,

looking out to sea,

feeling the wind in my hair.

I’m glad I’m not

suffering from hunger,

hiding from bombs,

frightened and missing my family.

Too poor to buy medicine,

and all the time oppressed.

I may wish for things,

but I’m lucky to have things.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Luck