The words for Wednesday are thought up by Mark Koopmans but they appear at Elephant's Child's blog:
Koozie And/or Castrated
Porche Chateau
Dinosaur Lego
Watergate Router
Douglas Suncream
Soften Freudian
This bunch of words is giving me a headache. As my tales of Susan is set in the 70es - my late childhood, early youth - many of these words are no-go: Susan never used suncream, Routers and Koozies were yet to be invented, Watergate did not mean anything to a child in Denmark. She had no idea of castrations, "Freudian" or Freud even - in the middle of the sexual revolution, children were still left to be children.
And after this weeding and pruning, I'm left with:
Porche, Dinosaur, Douglas, Soften, Chateau and Lego.
I have only a half-baked idea. Let's see if next weeks prompts will bring us more about this or go somewhere else.
"Good morning, children," Mum said cheerfully. "Rise and shine, today we're going on a trip to see the tallest tree in Denmark. Your Father has borrowed his chef's new car, it is a Porsche, and it is a pleasure to ride."
Susan and Linda moaned. A long car ride to somewhere just to look at a tree? Mum looked at their faces. and tried to soften the news. "The trees grows near that Lego place you have been wanting to visit. And they have a new theme park with cowboys and a castle build of Legos, called the Chateau something. Now get up and pack your stuff, remember pajamas and so on, we're staying over at a hotel near the Lego park."
Susan yawned an got up. She quickly packed her small suitcase, pajamas, Biology text book, pencils and notebook. She had to do some homework on dinosaurs, she could do so on the ferry. She also packed her diary. As an afterthought she placed her magic wand in the small brown suitcase as well, her books on magic, and all the letters from Heidi. She did not like to leave anything pertaining to Unicorn Farm in the house even for a few days.
During breakfast Dad lectured them on the tree: "Douglas fir was imported from Northern America more than 100 years ago. Their needles are soft, smelling vaguely of lemons and their cones are naughty, they stick out their three-pronged tongues at you," Dad said with a teasing smile. "But I suppose you're much more interested in the Lego park. Did you remember to bring your money? There's a shop where you can buy Legos by weight in there too."
After cleaning the table they set off. The Porsche was an unusually comfortable car, even Susan did not get car sick during the long and hot, rather boring ride to the ferry.
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That could be a very fun family outing, we have seen the Lego store at Disney World and the children loved it.
SvarSletThe Porsche must have been comfortable. This Susan always gets car sick (then and now) - particularly on long hot journeys.
SvarSletLoved the way you incorporated the prompts into this snippet of your continuing story - and there is NO obligation to use them all.
Thank you both.
SvarSletThe Porsche was cheating. Actually we flew there - a flight lasting all of of 20 minutes. Me/Susan always got car sick, even now in old age, once even while driving - myth busted.
The trip was fun, I remember the store as paradise come true :)
I always try to use all the prompst. While I know and respect that there's no obligation to do so, I want to, and thus I felt the need to explain ny non-use this time around.
An impromptu family trip sounds good but if one of them gets car sick, it might make for better drama, like perhaps one of them gets sick and had to they have to stop the car in the middle of some strange woodland and some magic happens, maybe.
SvarSletThe words are a bit difficult but I think you've the ones you can really well.
Have a lovely day.