My two dogs Archie and Bella, though not related, have an uncanny synchronicity.
Synchronised staring
Synchronised sleeping
Synchronised couch topping
Synchronised seeking
Synchronised moping (probably because of those jackets. What was I thinking?!)
Synchronised snacking.
Weirdos.
🐶🐶💜💜
Prompt: Daily Post Daily Prompt, Word: synchronise, snack
Blogger Recognition Award
I’m thrilled to accept this blogger recognition award (especially since it is my very first award)
Thank you, to my blogger friend, Elsie Hagley – Ramblings of a Writer, for nominating me for this award. I really enjoy participating in her weekly Tanka challenges, and she has an interesting site with a wide range of posts from Tanka, cooking, short stories and more. I always look forward to seeing her work in my WordPress Reader!
How did my blog start?
I started this blog in late April 2017. I previously had a different blog that helped me through a difficult time in my life, a few years ago. I have since ‘retired’ that one and By Sarah explores my more creative side. I absolutely LOVE writing – always have, always will 😃
My advice for new bloggers is:
1. Write what you know. Capturing a small moment in time can sometimes produce the best piece of writing! Also, go with the flow….literally. Don’t overthink your posts or prompts. Go with it and see where it leads.
2. Find like minded people. Better to have fewer followers and likes, from those who ‘get’ and appreciate your efforts! Quality not quantity as they say.
I would like to nominate:
Bushboy’s World – an amazing photographer. Stunning flora and fauna and other fascinating subjects as well as quirky anecdotes. Someone I have enjoyed getting to know in the WordPress world.
Life on the Skinny Branches – besides my absolute love of this site’s name, Margaret is a beautiful writer and I have connected with many of her pieces, on frequent occasions. Always an interesting read.
There is never any obligation with my nominations, just sharing great and new blogs with my readers.
If you’re unable to participate for any reason, please accept this as a gesture of my appreciation.
Here are the rules:
1. Thank the blogger who nominated you and provide a link to their blog.
2. Write a post to show your award.
3. Give a brief story how your blog started.
4. Give two pieces of advice to new bloggers.
5. Select (up to 15) other bloggers for this award.
6. Comment on each blog to let them know you nominated them and provide a link to to the post you created.
Wangaratta Railway Station
Prompt: Thursday Doors – June 29, 2017
Image credit Daniel Von Appen on Unsplash
It was the night of the Grade 2 Sleepover at the school and the teachers had been instructed to push all the classroom furniture aside.
As the first parents and students arrived, the principal soon realised her mistake.
The teachers had pushed the furniture aside alright – but she had forgotten to remind them it was to let the kids in, not keep them out!
By Sarah ©2017
Author’s note: I am literally at a Grade Two Sleepover now…please go to sleep little ones!
Prompt: Three Line Tales, Week 74
The falls in the upper section (pictured above) form a triangle shape (delta 🔺) and depict constant change as the water rushes and flows, spilling down to the next level.
Even in the lower section, the pool is not the end of the line. The water continues on, escaping out a narrow mouth down the river.
Continually changing; moving water.
Image credits By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge, Word: delta
twenty five children
each one valued and nurtured
with no teacher’s pets
a classroom, a family
helping each other to learn
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 51 – family and pets
prisons for demons
abandoned and deserted
for truth eternal
By Sarah
Prompt: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, June 28th 2017 – Milarepa
Image credit Bikurgurl
The sign declared “Open”, however these days, there was little point. For years they had been getting squeezed out of the marina by the sleek and shiny yachts. In fact, the recent addition of the latest jetty had literally boxed them in. The manager sighed and decided to take action. He grabbed a piece of chalk, crossing out the “B”. He ordered his men to start up the wood chipper and load the boats in one by one. At least the “Centre for Wooden Oats” may sustain them for a few more weeks. People always needed mulch for their gardens.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Daily Post Daily Prompt – Fact; and also, Bikurgurl, 100 Word Wednesday – Week 25, Word count: 100
Nothing like the abandon of stepping off the Bunji ledge! Though only a 48m drop, this was undoubtably one of the most exhilarating, terrifying and rejuvenating experiences of my life. This is the AJ Hacket Bunji, Kawarau Bridge, near Queenstown New Zealand…and yes, that’s me.
Prompt: Dutch Goes The Photo, Tuesday Photo Challenge – #36 Steps
Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii, has to be one of the wettest places I have ever visited – five out five days, we experienced torrential rain! On the flip side, this means the scenery and vegetation is lush and green. Everywhere you look it’s like nature is trying to reclaim its territory. These were the steps leading up to the back of our accommodation. Now coated in moss, these are actually stone pavers.
Image credit By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Dutch Goes The Photo, Tuesday Photo Challenge – Steps
Pokemon Go is attracting controversy for contributing to various accidents, as well as becoming a public nuisance at some locations…
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Twittering Tales #36 – 27 June 2017, 140 characters or less
Image credit Natalia Fadejeva
She was of this world, yet not.
Lying somewhere in the in-between.
The call of the birds in the sky,
the rustle of crimson leaves,
and sensual smell of the soil,
Not enough to draw her back to earth.
Silken water, caressing milky skin,
the perfume of floating petals,
with promise of peace in the darkness,
Not enough to take her under.
Family murmur their words
to coax her back to consciousness.
But she is trapped in her box.
She’s not the first person to be buried alive in her body.
She won’t be the last.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Photo Challenge #171; and also, Daily Post Daily Prompt, Word: bury, soil
in death it’s too late
then to realise the abject
futility of
harbouring resentment for
the person in the mirror
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, #39 Mirror and Harbor
flames rage the war while
embers do reconnaissance
for the next attack.
By Sarah ©2017
Author’s Note: An ember attack is a naturally occurring event. During a bushfire, burning parts of trees such as twigs, branches or leaves become temporarily airborne and can be carried away upwind of the bushfire. An ’ember attack’ occurs when many embers are carried by winds in a cluster
Image credit emberarresta
Prompt: Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku, Poetry Pronpt Challenge #155 Ember & Flame
By Sarah 
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