Happy New Year Readers! May 2018 be all you hope for and dream about. Here is a short piece of writing I created a few months ago for our monthly writing group under the theme of 'A Mysterious Container' . Enjoy! Mysterious opened her eyes. She felt strange, different somehow. Her whole being ached and tingled with pins and needles. Confined to a tight, dark space, a haloed green sheen reflected about as much light as a festival glow stick. ‘Where am I?’ she wondered, smelling the sickly sweet goop that maintained her supine position. Encamped in the jelly-like substance, Mysterious inhaled. Sampling a deep swig of syrup, she gulped. It wasn’t half bad. ‘Mm mm…Best pace myself. I could be stuck here for a while.’ Cooped up in the dingy surrounds, her vision remained blurred. Boundaries obscured and faded, sometimes clashing as Mysterious strived to focus. With little else to do but think, a rhetorical question played over and over on the turntable ...
Well, it's been well over a month since my last FBG's blog. But never fear, we have been walking in our droves ( and so much more!) Many hearts have been shared and inches shed, muscle has massed and some have been missed as issues of life -illnesses and family commitments have intervened for a time. 2C : Strut Your Stuff Resilience and Perseverance are the two words that resonate with us during this wild winter weather. And yes, you may not know it right now but we have broken through to Spring. The cherry blossoms, port-wine magnolias, lambs and daffodils are beacons of better things to come, lights at the end of tunnels. We have well and truly crossed the bridge, through both the high(s) and low(s), and now have a very identifiable purplicious presence on the streets. ( Special thanks to Eden's fantabulous design skills and the friendly, accommodating staff at Image Apparel.) 2D : Feel the Burn Our FBD's ( Fat Bottomed D...