Tuesday 5 November 2024

1134 - VINYL

CyriL was in a really bad temper. Before storming out of the room, he set to to spoil the floor. He took the quill out of the ink pot and poured all the ink over the floor. However, his teacher was not too alarmed because she knew that the ink was water soluble and would make no permanent mark on the vinyl flooring.

The quill and inkpot
The quill and inkpot

Monday 4 November 2024

1133 - BLAZE

Arthur and ELsie were newly mArriEd and, being well off, having a holiday in Africa. Arthur was keen to do game hunting and today had taken the life of an eland. Elsie didn't approve and instead went hunting wild flowers, studying each sepal, petal, stamen and ovary. That night they dined on Arthur's catch which they found quite vealy. The next day Arthur returned from his hunting, hobbling along on crutches. "What's up?", ask Elsie. "I tripped over a log and hurt my ankle", replied Arthur. They dined on some more of Arthur's previous day's catch and enjoyed the blaze of the camp fire as the sky darkened and the night creatures could be heard.

Sitting round the camp fire
Sitting round the camp fire

Sunday 3 November 2024

1132 - SNOOP

It was rarely noisy in Alicia's bedroom, especially when she was playing with her soft toys. Each toy would take it in turn to wear the snood and give directions to all the other toys who were always co-operative. At the end of each session she would always put the snood on her favourite toy - the snook. Occasionally her Mum would snoop on what she was up to, but it was always the same. "I just can't imagine her being any trouble at all", she would say to her friends who would nod knowingly. "Just you wait - trouble will come one day", they tended to say.

Alicia had lots of toys
Alicia had lots of toys

Saturday 2 November 2024

1131 - SIXTH

When Thomas had passed his GCSEs, he went back to school to do further studies. But after a stint studying in the sixth form he was discouraged and realised it was not the sort of stuff he wanted to learn. After the first term he left and started at the local agricultural college.

Thomas at the agricultural college
Thomas at the agricultural college

Introduction

482 - FLOOR

“LO and behold, there's  flour  on the  floor .” exclaimed Denise. “I wonder if Ethan has been making a cake?” she thought.