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More Chickenfeed Games

For those of you who downloaded Worms and Straw Bales (pictured above), I have discovered an earlier game from John Spiers of mylifewithgracie.com. This is a card game called Feed the Chickens which appeared last August. (How did I miss it? . . .Last year was a busy year.) Find either game by clicking on … Continue reading More Chickenfeed Games

Houseparty, the app

meeting in lockdown

Rise Up! : Sign Language Version

Originally posted on beetleypete:
My step-daughter Emma works here in Norfolk in a school for children with special educational needs. Because of Coronavirus, she is currently working from home on teaching projects. She decided to use her sign language skills to help and inspire the kids at the school, many of whom have great problems…

More Home Experiments

AccuWeather School: Let the air show its muscles and crush a can You’ll have to scroll a long way down the Accuweather page for the crush-a-can experiment; it was posted on April 27th. (Sorry – forgot to finish this post.) Scroll down even further for more home experiments, such as how to make a cloud … Continue reading More Home Experiments

Bridge the Distancing

Online get-togethers and a new board game. Our writing group – the Whittlesey Wordsmiths – held our first meeting on Zoom in April. Some members were wobbly about the technology involved and left us pioneers to try it first. Although our first meeting was a doggy paddle of discovery, we soon got used to watching … Continue reading Bridge the Distancing

Villanelle

No, nothing to do with that* TV programme! A villanelle is a poem with a very specific rhyming structure. (The most well known villanelle in English is probably Dylan Thomas’s. . . Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, Rage against the dying of the light.) I have taken up the challenge to … Continue reading Villanelle

Editing The Pond People

It’s been a while since I wrote The Pond People. It began as a short story which was edited to death to send out for a competition. After extending the story it was sidelined for something else and hadn’t been edited beyond the first draft. Posting it as a blog serial has made me get … Continue reading Editing The Pond People

Riding the Waterfall

Those who’ve been following this blog for a while might have read this already on commaful at https://commaful.com/play/cathycade/m.... Or perhaps in my collection Witch Way, and other ambiguous stories (available from Amazon). But for more recent followers who’ve been reading the mirlings saga, here’s a verse I wrote earlier. Skimming down the waterfall, bouncing off … Continue reading Riding the Waterfall

Pond People 33

Riding the Current. He was still figuring out where he was when Eddy landed beside him. ‘Flash… how …? Magic! I might have known.’ Flo joined them. ‘You’re bleeding. Let me look at that.’ He moved his hand away and watched Flo kneel to inspect the wound in his side. She looked up with concern … Continue reading Pond People 33

Recycling and Climate Change…13th April 2020… A once in a lifetime view …

Originally posted on Retired? No one told me!:
Mother Nature is ever powerful and can regenerate herself so much faster than maybe even the learned scientists knew…Will lessons be learnt…? I do hope so…Amongst all this tragedy we have to take some positives we have to believe that the world and its inhabitants can and…