Twittering Tales #152 – 3 September 2019

It’s time again, for Kat Myrman’s wonderful challenge, to write a story, inspired by her picture prompt, in 280 characters or fewer.

Here is this week’s prompt and my contribution.

Check out all the fabulously creative entries here and, if you’ve never had a go, why not try a story of your own? You may surprise yourself!

Photo by Geralt at Pixabay.com

She was expert in Octal, and knew that octal numerals can be made from binary by grouping consecutive binary digits into groups of three (starting from the right). She was using that to solve the problem that could save Earth.
A pity that her magnetism was distorting the monitor!

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Twittering Tales #135 – 7 May 2019

It’s time again, for Kat Myrman’s wonderful challenge, to write a story, inspired by her picture prompt, in 280 characters or fewer.

Here is this week’s prompt and my contribution.

Check out all the fabulously creative entries here and, if you’ve never had a go, why not try a story of your own? You may surprise yourself!

Photo by jplenio at Pixabay.com

Carbon capture was great. The city could create pollution without fear of the consequences.  We kept on pumping the carbon emissions into the caves and fissures deep below our feet, and everything was fine.

Until, one day, the frackers breached the caves.

Not so great now is it!

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Click on Carbon capture and see if you think it is a good idea.

Sunday sayings #24

Some things I’ve done that you probably haven’t.

I had this random thought that I have done a few things in my life that the average person will never experience.  I thought I would write a post entitled:

“Ten things I’ve done that you probably haven’t.” It developed a little like this:

Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty things I’ve done that you probably haven’t

I arranged them in reverse alphabetical order, just for the sake of it! Then I thought of an added one, or four. So, here we have:

Some things I’ve done that you probably haven’t

1. Travelled down the Rhine on a Duck
2. Transferred between Royal Naval ships at sea by Jackstay
3. Transferred between Royal Naval ships at sea by helicopter
4. Spent time in a prison cell
5. Sat in a Harrier Jump Jet
6. Rowed in a coxed 4 at sea
7. Regularly travelled to work by helicopter
8. Qualified as a helicopter handling marshall
9. Played bugle and drums in a Cadet Force band
10. Helped to spy on Russian spies
11. Helped to open a Playboy Club, with no women, in Bahrain
12. Handled, and repaired Enigma machines
13. Gassed hundreds of people, some several times
14. Fallen out of the top of an oak tree
15. Driven a tank
16. Crawled under the Queen’s bed
17. Crash landed a glider
18. Been underwater in a submarine
19. Been inside a radome
20. Been in the impact area of High explosive shells
21. Been an unpaid tourist guide
22. Been totally alone on an island
23. Been a sound engineer for The Gibraltar Song Festival
24. Been a cave guide

All of these were achieved before the age of 40 but, if you have a large outstanding bucket list, do not despair, it is never too late!

I must admit that there is an amount of poetic licence involved, but where that is will only be revealed as I expand on each tale.

No state secrets will be revealed during the making of these blogs.

You may be waiting a while!

At the Doctor’s

BUT I’M ALREADY HERE!

What, awful punctuation there is upon, the screen?

Its’ often very difficult to know just, what they mean

They must; have been to school and: such

If not they Broke the law

Hang on, a bit the screens’ just changed

And now ther’es even more

 

Apparently my colons in danger of disease.

I thought I only had the one, but anything to please.

There’s hypo this, and hyper that, yet their and there are mixed,

and they’re convinced that all my ills can very soon be fixed.

Forget my moans, my name’s been called, enunciated strongly.

Computer generated speech was used, pronouncing my name wrongly!

I feel unwell!

Twittering Tales #23 – 28 March 2017

Kat Myrman has this wonderful challenge to tax our creative souls. Just take her photo prompt and write a story, inspired by it, in 140 characters or fewer.

Here is this week’s prompt and my contribution. Check out all the fabulous entries here.

You may need to enlarge the photo unless you are into GoPro cameras!

The skies were full of hero’s! Prices from £150 up to well over £3,000. Not quite like during the blitz though! They were real heroes.

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