Poetry Monday :: A Recipe for Disaster

Every Monday is Poetry Monday. Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over the hosting duties, mostly the supplying of the prompts - only temporarily we hope - while Diane at On the Border is taking a break for health and relaxation. We hope to hear from Diane soonish.

  I have something to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
  Half - if not more - the fun of these challenges is receiving the responses of others.

Today's prompt is A Recipe for Disaster. I was not in a poeming mood, but then I thought it over. A recipe for disaster;  do we need one? does it really exist? If yes I know what to do ...

A recipe for disaster
Is not a thing I'm after.
But then again
I'd grab my pen
Jot down what not to master.

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Up and coming:
Dec. 16 - Recipe for Disaster (today)
Dec. 23 - Never Say Never and/or Christmas/Hanukkah
Dec. 30 - All Done

Sunday Selection :: Colour24

The colour for December is

er decembers farve

Og .. tja der er ikke meget, der har den farve lige nu. Himlen er grå, julepynt for det meste rød, hvid eller gylden. Men det fine glas-juletræ, der var dagens ting i vores adventskalender i går, rammer nok ret godt. Rimen er for længst væk igen, og har veget pladsen for den normale decemberregn. 

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Not much around us has this pretty blue right now - the skies are grey and all ornaments are mostly red, white or golden. But this one, yesterday's advent ornament, fits the bill. The hoarfrost has long gone, and given way to more rain.

Og så tegner jeg stadig. I september fandt jeg 365 days of Drawing Prompts, en gruppe på Facebook med et stikord til hver dag og en sød, meget aktiv og ikke specielt striks ledelse. Det passer mig fint. Jeg får ikke lagt så mange tegninger op, som jeg kunne ønske, men nu har jeg i hvert fald både stikord og gruppe igen efter showet med SDD ... suk!
     Dagens stikord er Cocktail. Og sådan én kan jo godt være blå.  

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And I'm still drawing, not as much or indeed as often as I would like. Back in September I found a new group, 365 days of drawing prompts, on Facebook. It is a very active, not judging, not praising overmuch group, but now I again have both prompts and a place to post after the sorry end of SDD. Sigh.

Today's prompt was Cocktail. This can be done in blue.

Colour25 ... A new Idea

I am going to continue with the colour challenge - now Colour25 - next year, but I have an idea ... Sometimes, on your blogs I see photos with a colour I really find stunning. Could I have your permission to show these photots here (no persons, full credits), with a coloured square, colour code and name and the blog from where the colour was taken.
Then I could maybe name the colour, or I could ask for a name ... Let me show you what I mean:

Words for Wednesday :: Only the WordsDecember 10 2024

The Word for Wednesday challenge started a long time ago. Now it has turned into a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator; and the Words are provided by a number of people.
The prompts for December are provided by Wisewebwoman and can be found @ Elephant's Child.

The general idea of this challenge is to make us write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.

 It is also a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true.

So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.

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This week's prompts are:

Arithmetic
Daffodils
Bicycle
Graveyard
Sympathy
     and/or
Gravy
Tugboat
Flag
Hospital
Freedom

I hope writing will happen sooner or later, but as life is butt-crazy in the Owlery right now no promises.

Google er blevet sær :: Google's new Antics

Sometimes complaining here just helps better than anything else I can do.

Now Google has found out a new way of  bothering me. It logs me out at irregular intervals, and then insists on showing me all notifications in Swedish.

This is the disclaimer, you get when reading a new blog - only I get it every time, I visit any blog - and as said in Swedish. I have of course logged in again, checked my language settings;  my preferred language is as always Danish (and English for those pages not yet in Danish), so of course I need all notifications and Blogger's start page to be in Swedish.

But why?