A-Z Challenge ~ S for Shots ~ Updated

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This year again I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I plan to post the A-Z post around noon every day of April.

As the alternative badges, as supplied by Lissa suggest travel I'll prefer travel-related words as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me and I have time and energy for it, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

Today my starting word is Shots.
The average today is 5 or very challenging - I am below average today - with some luck.

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Shots - I cannot believe I never told this story, but search as I may, I find no trace of it. I hinted at this too in my Bucket list part two - the have done-list:

Seen forest fires and deserts grand.
I've been to many a foreign land.
How many? Well, I cannot count,
As many are no more around.
I've been shot at in Damascus once.
I've candied quince,
Dined with a prince,
And also stayed for days with nuns, 

... "I've been shot at in Damascus once." is the line here. 
As I vividly remember having told this tale in writing once before, I'm going to search some more.

I found it - maybe I posted it as a comment to a long ago post on shootings, anyway here it is:

I have been shot at in Damascus once ... Me and one other girl from the travelling school with buses were on our way to the harbour, walking down a street, talking, fooling around, trying to find our way, and totally only mending our own business. Then suddenly we heard some loud cracking noices. Firewroks, we thought, but then we heard a zing-like noise close to us, and saw a hole appear in a wall in front of us. They were shooting!
We looked back, a group of men stood there, guns (rifles I think) at the ready.We looked ahead, more men, more guns. Loud yells from one group was answered by yells, waving of guns and a single shot from the other end of the street. They were angry. Not at us, but at one another. We were just in the wrong place, and we wanted noting but out! The street was fairly broad, but the rows of houses went on unbroken on both sides, no byways, no door opnings to shelter us. But a telephone booth stood near by. Old, worn, some windows broken, but for us it was golden! The lower "windows" all the way round were made of metal. We dived in. Lay down half inclined on our backs. And then we waited, smoking cigarette after cigarette. We heard more shouting, more shots, some whizzing close by, one even hitting the top of "our" booth. When silence finally fell, we barely dared move. But looking out, we saw a clear street, no black clad, shouting men, no dead bodies, nobody in short. We walked off, hastily, but not running. And we never told of what happened, as we had been in the wrong.

And now for today's Wordle:

A-Z Challenge ~ R for River

This year again I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I plan to post the A-Z post around noon every day of April.

As the alternative badges, as supplied by Lissa suggest travel I'll prefer travel-related words as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me and I have time and energy for it, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

Today my starting word is River.
The average today is 4,5 or moderately challenging - I am well above average today even with a lucky guess.

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Under B for Beach, I promised more of me, tides, and not learning from experience. I also hinted at it in my Bucket list part two - the have done-list:

I've worked at an assembly line,
And nearly drowned in tidal brine.
I drove a bus down hairpin bends,
so sharp that sparks flew from both ends.
I've swam at night into the sea
Been baked in sunshine, drenched in rain.
I've baked a bread from newcut grain
And pilfered mango from a tree. 

... "And nearly drowned in tidal brine" is the clue here.  Some days before the beach incident, we wanted to visit the desert across the river. We could of course have gone the long way around, up to the road, down the road to the "forbidden village", where the smugglers lived, and then further on along the coast to the desert, but this was a giant detour, as the desert lay just across the river from where we stayed. We decided to wade across. We stripped apart from underwear, and bundled our clothes in a nice bundle which could be held in one arm.
    The river was broad here, hip deep in the deepest spots, this we knew from earlier swims here.  There was a nasty spot in the middle, where it was at its deepest, and where the current was fast. We put our bundles up on our heads, and held onto one another with our free hand while crossing this stretch. But just as we all were there, in the deepest spot, the tide turned and all the water from up the river came tearing down, making the waters reach our chins and the current even more violent, We held onto one another and mashed our toes down into the stony bottom of the river bed, holding on for dear life and just hoping that we would be able to hold out until the worst was over. The river mouth was beset with jagged cliffs and boulders, so a slip would most certainly mean death.
     Just as we felt we were unable to hold on any more, and me and one of the boys were about to give up, we felt a lessening in the current, and we began carefully, only one person moving a any one time, to inch back to the bank we had left. The waters reached to our chin almost all the way to the bank, but soon we were out of the middle, and out of the current. We threw ourselves upon the grassy bank and just lay for a long time before moving again.

And now for today's Wordle:

Poetry Monday :: Superheroes

Hello! If you're here for my A-Z post for Q, please go back one post.

Poetry Monday is a blogging game invented long ago. Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings and I are keeping it alive until Diane @ On the Border returns home from her break of health and relaxation, travelling the world with her husband as far as we can tell.

We just hope she's going to take back over once she returns home.

The prompts now come from 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group. This is a Facebook group with a prompt for each day of the year, but no worries, the prompts will still be here and at Mimi's blog.

Today's prompt is: Superheroes

I have written before of my dreamt-up negative Superheroes. Here, here, here, and here.

It is not that they themselves are negative, far from, they're really good superheroes. But their superpower is that everything not belonging toi the place it is in now, lights up in negative colours. This is quite a superpower if you think of it.

But they are a sad bunch in these modern times. I give you

The Superheroes' Lament:
We are the Superheroes, we
We see much more than you do see
And everything that should not be
Light up in colours gaudily

A beer can glows in neon pink
A lost receipt in magic ink
A waste of powers you'll agree
Now think of all that cannot be:

We'd find the keys you lost today
We'd find the kittens gone astray.
But our powers locked stay
on all the crap you throw away.



- - - - - - - - - - Coming Themes  - - - - - -

taken from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group.

Apr 27 Plaid
May 4 Back pack
May 11 Futuristic Landscape
May 18 Balcony
May 25 Scooter
June 1 Blue
June 8 2 minute Sketch
June 15 Cobweb with Dewdrops

A-Z Challenge ~ Q for Queue

This year again I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I plan to post the A-Z post around noon every day of April.

As the alternative badges, as supplied by Lissa suggest travel I'll prefer travel-related words as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me and I have time and energy for it, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

Today my starting word is Queue.
The average today is 4,8 or moderately challenging - I am average today.

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Queue ... During my travels in the countries behind the Iron Curtain, I have seen my share of queues.
The first few times we saw a queue, we simply queued up as did everybody around, because we supposed something valuable was to be had at the end of the queue. But after standing in line for a long time in inclement autumn weather for umbrellas and fake wool suits, we learnt to send a person up to the the head of the line to espy what exactly we were queueing for.

We had been told that that there was no unemployment behind the Iron Curtain, that people ate well and that children and young ones were well educated and everybody worked for a brighter future.
    I had a hard time reconciling this to what I saw and heard. When we went shopping for instance, we saw shops that were more often than not half empty and it was a time consuming endeavour to go shopping. Once inside the store, we queued up more times. First we stood in one line to place our order, often asking for several things not in stock until we hit on a compromise item. We got a note with the price, then waited in another line to pay and get a receipt to go with the note, and then in a final one where we handed in the note and got the now carefully wrapped item. Guaranteed full employment, sure, but what a glorious waste of time.

And now for today's Wordle:

A-Z Challenge ~ P for Palms

This year again I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I hope to post every day until the end of April.

As the alternative badges, as supplied by Lissa suggest travel I'll prefer travel-related words as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me and I have time and energy for it, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

Today my starting word is Palms.
The average today is 4,3 or moderately challenging - I am well below average today with a lucky guess.

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Palms ... We saw lots of palm trees on our journey through Egypt and Sudan. I'd like to re-tell a bit from earlier, as it contains palm leaves. We - seven of us - were staying in a small village some hours' walk from Loa - which is fairly close to Nimule on the Uganda border:

  The women in the village amused themselves by putting us to all sorts of jobs we couldn't manage, like washing clothes and grindin sesame seeds. Then when we were messing around with a tub and a washboard, the women, laughing and teasing, pushed us away and, gesticulating and talking loudly, showed how to do it. The boys experienced the same thing, being set to weave cages from palm leaf stems. It looked easy when one of the men did it. With a knife, he split the stem into four, drilled a few holes here and there, split another stem, folded and bent, and poof, he had made a small box with a lid that could be opened able hold 3-4 kg of tomatoes. The boys' first attempt was not good, to put it mildly, and there was much laughter.

And now for today's Wordle: