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See you on the other side - switching off at sunset

Sundown March 9 to sundown March 10 is the national day of switching off the internet and reconnecting with real life. Wonder how quiet it will get on CS? I won't sneak in to peek.

Well, I hope I won't

"The idea behind the day was to challenge people to keep their electronic devices unplugged and unused for 24 hours in order to give themselves the chance to take a break and spend time relaxing with family, friends, or alone."

Read books, meet a friend to blether in real life, go for walks, and of course work on the house, lots (LOTS) to do. I don't spend much time on the internet during the day, tend to spend too much time at night. But I can do this. Good idea.

If you do it, what will you do with the time you are getting back for yourself? Could you even do it? Very few people I know could. Not entirely sure myself that I can, good grief, 24 hours, of COURSE I can. flex
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Bloggers are all writers, so creating a story together should be a doddle

It was a dark and stormy night, and Al was alone in his apartment. He’d only lived there a week, and there were still boxes to be unpacked, but instead he was sitting at the window sipping tea and looking down at the street, slick and black in the streetlights, torrents rushing into the storm drains. There was only one person in sight, wearing a rain cape which billowed and slapped in the storm as they hurried through the puddles in his direction.

Thunder crashed, and the lights in the apartment flickered and went out.

************


Your turn.

You can write a sentence, or a paragraph, no more, to grow the story.

You can add sentences or paragraphs as often as you like, but only after at least one other person comments, and, THE CHALLENGE, you have to work with their comment, even if it changes the direction (although you can try to change it back grin) Comments that don’t add to the story can be ignored and will be deleted.

I will add as well, but not very often - mainly where 2 people posted at once in different directions, if I can! Is it a thriller? A romance? The sooner you comment, the more likely you will be the one who chooses - although the next comment may change the direction.

If you really want to change the direction, especially after several comments, copy and paste the start into your comment, then add your bit. . Comments that want to follow your direction might need to copy and paste your entry into their comment - hmm, this could get complicated laugh

You can’t end the story* in your comment, only grow it. My story, I want to end it scold

Can we do this? No idea. Could be fun trying. A single sentence could completely change the game.



*unless you really want to write the entire short story as you see it into your comment - please use a different colour if you do
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(Bloggers are writers sidelong blog)

(For comments that can't be added to the story blog, just in case one is needed)

Blown AWAY guys thumbs up wow can't wait to see what happens next!!!!
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Jealousy - what is it good for?

Even animals get jealous - for attention, or competing for the same thing - and Nature doesn't build in pointless emotions, so what is jealousy good for?

Anger gives us the strength and adrenalin rush to fight
Fear lends us wings to run away
Happiness rebuilds our strength to live another day
Love inspires us to build towards a future
etc

Jealousy seems such a destructive emotion but is it? I'm including things like

Envy of the achievements of others
Jealousy when a loved one seems to be making a connection with another and we feel threatened
Resentment when someone else is being praised

Benefits?
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Best. microstory. ever

Nobody dared go near the tower. A fearsome dragon perched on its top.

Until one day a knight rode up. 'You need help getting down?'

'Please'
















heart wings
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"Ask For Angela"

This is an initiative in the UK for women who feel unsafe on a date in a public place like a pub or nightclub - they can go to anyone working there and ask for Angela.

It's a coded message which says 'I'm feeling threatened, please can you help me' and without any awkward explanations or questions the member of staff knows to stick around, or make sure someone sticks around, until you can be safely removed from the situation.

I've only just heard about it, so in case I'm not the only numpty around, I'm mentioning it here. I think it's a great idea.

If your country has something similar, maybe you could add it to the comments for anyone local who didn't know.

And pity any real Angela types who will cause something of a kerfuffle every time they have to be asked for.
laugh
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Define normal

I was divorced and back in the dating pool before I met my first nutter. They're not all on the dating websites, you know, they move among us in real life too.

This was a blind date, set up as a double date, and he would rather have been with the other lass. Fair to say we didn’t hit it off. When he found out I had a young daughter he said he bet I didn’t allow my ex to see her. He was so effing sick of meeting women who screwed their husbands for alimony AND made it impossible for them to see their kids.

Actually my daughter spends every weekend with her dad.

So he’s stuck at home looking after your kid while you’re out partying every weekend? That’s so effing typical . . .

Oh aye, he was a prince. He then started to complain about his last girlfriend. Women were insane. They say they want flowers and cards, and then when you give them everything they want, they go to the police about you. Effing insane.

Ummmmm - what happened?

He left a flower and a card every day under her windscreen wiper, the way she reacted you’d think he was an axe murderer. Effing b*tch. Just trying to show he was caring, and interested, seriously interested, isn’t that something women were supposed to want?

I’d have moved my car elsewhere, I said with perfect honesty and he glared at me with mingled triumph and hatred.

Like that made a difference! She never left it anywhere I couldn’t find it. Next thing I know I’m being told I’m a stalker! Effing mental.


****

I left, and he spent the rest of the evening telling my friend that I would never get a boyfriend, I was too effing uptight.

When she passed that on, I said he was a lunatic and should be locked up. She was quite taken aback. Yes he was a bit intense but compared to some of the blokes she’d dated, he was pretty normal.


*****

Define normal.
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Dosh - you know - collecting the readies

I want to be coining it, rolling in filthy lucre, getting more bang out of every buck, turning a pretty penny, minting it, saving for a rainy day, making moolah, sitting pretty.

Considered the conventional way - working 40 hours a week for 40 years to retire on 40 percent of my income. Hmm. uh oh

One guy I knew back in the horse days has a funny old factory making lightweight wooden crates for shipping fruit and vegetables. He has a sideline selling by-product - shavings - to the pet industry - hamster bedding, mainly. Millions. He works hard, mind.

I like bizarre ideas. I looked up a few that made millions
1. ashleymadison.com - a website for married people to have affairs
2. Pooperscooper.com - scooping up dog poo.
3. Superjam - a teenager selling his gran’s jam from a Scottish kitchen
4. Specs for dogs
5. Plastic wishbones, so everyone gets a wish at Christmas
6. Wuvit - microwaveable pillows
7. Selling pixels on a webpage
8. The guy who created a company that provides excuse letters to miss work
9. Lasermonks.com - the monks selling refilled printer cartridges
10. WhateverLife - a teenage drop-out selling MySpace layouts

I repeat - these all made millions.

So I need an idea which is simple, unique, feasible, do-able, will catch public fancy, and let me sit back after I scoop in enough to keep me comfortable for the foreseeable.

Got one for me?
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Killer flu - a warning

In 1918 Spanish flu swept the world, killing an estimated 50 million people.

100 years later, Aussie flu (as it is called except in the US) is knocking people down like ninepins. Some aren’t getting up.

We live in an age where exaggeration is rife, everything is the biggest and the best and the worst, so when people say this is the next Spanish flu, well, take everything said with a pinch of salt. Whatever you call it, it is a type A influenza, H3N2, bad news.

This isn’t usual flu. It isn’t even man flu. It’s worse.

In the US it has become the most widespread in 12 years, affecting all but 2 states (as at 2 days ago) and has officially been declared an epidemic. It has been spreading in the UK and Europe for a bit longer, and the mutating virus is becoming more serious.

H3N2 flu has been around since late 2017 but it won't go away and is spreading worldwide. Some doctors are treating with antibiotics, others say it is mutating so fast that antibiotics won’t help.

Don’t tough it out. Those with bad cases couldn't go out if they wanted to, they are too weak, but keep warm, take plenty of liquids, treat the symptoms and don’t push yourself. This one is bad.
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Can't believe I missed Kiss A Ginger Day

Actually I don't know if they celebrate it here, there aren't many gingers in the south of Spain, I may be the only one in my small town. But if they do celebrate it, I really missed an opportunity moping

Mind you there's a nasty bug going round. And in a world-wide poll on kissing the Spanish didn't come out near the top.

But still.

frustrated

What do you get when you kiss a guy?
you get enough germs to catch pneumonia
after you do he'll never phone ya ...

Anyone old enough to recognize those lyrics - kiss
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Therefore I am

The original* is philosophical not specific, I know that, borrowing the words not the thoughts for this blog.

If I think I am happy, I am surely happy? I think.

but ....

If I think I am sane, am I sane?

They do say only the mad think they are sane. uh oh Split the difference. I’ll accept interestingly eccentric, albeit financially challenged. grin

If I think I am the most drop-dead gorgeous creature on CS, well, I am free to think that, but what others think does have to play a part. laugh

So how much does what others think I am, affect what I am? If I value someone’s opinion, and suddenly find out they think I am an idiot, does their opinion still have value? confused

My builders thought I was rich and gullible, and to be fleeced of every possible cent. very mad My daughter thinks I am going through a midlife crisis, starting with the books I’ve written, especially the Clarissa ones, now with moving abroad, and wishes I would settle down and take up crochet. Talking of Clarissa, a younger friend of mine now thinks I am deliberately torturing him by refusing to become his domme until he is submissive enough. Dyeing my hair green and getting purple and blue slashes tattooed on my face, well, I didn't, but so far as I can see no-one reads long paragraphs. I have a friend who thinks I am in denial about being old and need to start with the blue rinses already. Actually, more than one. uh oh

I think they’re all wrong.

(There are some who see me the way I want to see myself - even some who see me as braver, cleverer, more talented, more capable than I am. hug There are the special few who, whatever they think, support and help me on my way.)


I think I’m right, therefore I am.


tongue


*Cogito ergo sum is a Latin philosophical proposition by René Descartes usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am".
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Breakfast

Ok, all hands to the plough here, the challenge is to create an East meets West breakfast.

So ................ easiest is to say

(a) what you like for breakfast (not necessarily what you have, but what you would like to have) and
(b) the name or type, or at least whether East or West


These are the only ones I know - probably have variations you know or prefer - and all are West

Full English - bacon, eggs, toast. sausage, grilled mushroom, grilled tomato and sometimes steak

Full Scottish - bacon. eggs, square (Lorne) sausage, potato scones, black pudding and sometimes haggis
(Both of the above often served with baked beans but not when I make them snooty) (whistle berries)

Continental - fruit, pastries, croissants, cheese, at least one type of charcuterie (usually ham)

American pancake heaven - stack of pancakes with bacon and maple syrup. I have no idea what other breakfasts are popular in the US, for the whole 10 days I was in the US I ate pancakes grin

I've been out with Jewish friends who had kippers with fried egg (in place of bacon)



Oh and by the way, to keep it topical and related to CS, the difference between being involved and being committed can be demonstrated by bacon and eggs. The hen is involved, but the pig is committed.






grin
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