July 2023 – Page 8 – Flippant, Comic, and Serious

Abandoned and Neglected

I used to be a swimming poolSwimmers everywhereAbandoned and neglectedNo-one seems to care Escher Sports Complex in Eshera, Abkhazia This indoor swimming pool was part of a larger complex that was used as an Olympic training base for sportsmen and women from all over the Soviet Union during the 1970s and ‘80s. The entire compoundContinue reading “Abandoned and Neglected”

Fandango’s One Word Challenge – Virtue

Write something incorporating the word ‘virtue’ Should you accept, go forth. Show your creative juices I accept.Here goes…. ODE TO VIRTUE Today’s word (yep) is virtueSynonym righteousnessMy head is still a mixupMy head is still a mess DM

From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (Disneyland)

There is never a timeto stop learning new things

From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (canoes)

There is never a timeto stop learning new things

FCS Daily Music Video ‘Route 66’ Glenn Frey

Glenn Lewis Frey (/fraɪ/; November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016) was an American musician. He was a founding member of the rock band Eagles. Frey was the co-lead singer and frontman for the Eagles, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with whom he wrote most of the Eagles’ material

Make-Up Clinic

Was looking so down-heartedTo clinic I did goThey did a transformationWhich they did good did so I feel much happier with my new look…… DM

Hose

Mummy I’m in troubleHose just squirted meDon’t know how it happenedScroll down have looksee DM

Fandango’s One Word Challenge – Newfangled

Write something incorporating the word ‘newfangled’ Should you accept, go forth. Show your creative juices I accept.Here goes…. ODE TO NEWFANGLED Word today is newFangled (as one word)Head’s still empty, uselessCan only think of churred Make a vibrant sound, as of some birds…… EG..Night-hawks churred as they beat on noiseless wingsabove the beds of brambleContinue reading “Fandango’s One Word Challenge – Newfangled”

From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (ruin)

There is never a timeto stop learning new things

From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (fuel gauge)

There is never a timeto stop learning new things