a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
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See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil has changed to:
Look at the evil with eyes wide open and if possible with magnifying lens tied to a binoculars.
Capture the data of the evil with your high definition zoom cameras.
Listen to all contorted/distorted variations of the tasty morsel of evil with big pitcher ears and headphones.
Then go ahead and shout it through every social media forum available, Telephone, Email, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc and try to break the internet by making it go viral to gain all the likes available and hopefully, the highest bidder for your captured evil will come knocking at the door with a fat cheque.
You can check Leannenz for past Monday memes.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
The Daily Post Photo prompt Harmony.
Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Aging is an annoying house guest
Who is forever engaged in a quest
He visits without prior behest
And stays put beside you in your arm rest
He has a way of getting your address
Even if you move places so he can’t keep abreast
An inevitable visitor who seeks to divest
All youthful zest even if you do protest
He arrives with a large travel chest
Filled with lots of odious screen tests
Doing his darned best to keep you under house arrest.
By the time he leaves, there’s nothing left but eternal rest.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
The Daily Post Prompt inevitable.
Add your links in this space to be featured.
You can add multiple links of your different posts from time to time.
The only way we grow is by being proactive and the growth of a blog also depends on it’s fluidity.
I know so many blogs that I have met through this system of featuring.
Take advantage of opportunities given to grow yours.
Regards,
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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It’s the only way to keep it tidy and manageable.
Thank you for your understanding.
On Thursday’s, I share pictures about ‘Echos of my Neighbourhood.
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple.
Every Thursday, share a photo of bits and pieces of wherever you are at any point in time. It could be houses, backgrounds of your neighbourhood, activities and so forth and you can tag it Echos of my Neighbourhood, add my link to your post so that I will get the ping from your post.
Every other Thursday, I will publish a post with the links of all those who participated the previous week.
This is just a fun way of getting to see more of the World around us through your eyes, since we cannot all be at those places, we can at least see them through you.
From the pictures above, last few days found me perambulating quite a bit. These were taken in the course of last week.
From attending the food festival and sugar craft show, to going to Bastakiya, the coffee museum and imbibing in coffee so potent that it could knock off your socks and you will float in the air with the buoyancy that it delivered.
I learnt a lot about coffee and took hundreds of photos.
It was thick heavy brew, served in small cups. I couldn’t finish mine because, it seriously gave me bright eyes and I think my hair stood on ends from the buzz that I got.
A bit bushy-tailed if I may say so.
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Last Week Echoes harvested quite new awesome peeks of different neighbourhoods, so board the flight with me and let’s go have a look see.
Bookyglover Deb shows us some of the rustic parts of my Lagos.
Hell’s kitchen and beyond from Roaming Urban gypsy have you been to Hell’s kitchen?
Fun photos what’s your thought? Would you drive this?
Giggles & Tales more lovely photos from Stella in Stockholm.
Mercury Colliding Kat shows us some part of her neighbourhood that most of us don’t like to visit.
Thoughts and Entanglements These pictures are so haunting they belong in a book
What’s up doc Cute! Took me back to my growing up years.
Looking back A blessed lineage from Mandi
Paula’s I must tell you that I am so envious of Paula’s community 😉
Are we enjoying these views yet? Take a peek at them.
So, when will you add some of yours? Pretty please with a cherry on top 😉
Regards,
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
P.S. I hope I didn’t miss out anyone’s link? I have that funny feeling.
I said I wouldn’t
I knew I shouldn’t
But I simply couldn’t
I wanted to get away
But she kept looking my way
So I took a nibble
And another nibble
And another
And another
And…….
Until she stopped
Looking
my
way.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
During my recent foray for freelance writing opportunities, the quote below jumped out from somewhere and glared me in the eyes.
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece, or per word or perhaps. Robert Benchley.
The ‘perhaps’ part got stuck in my head, drumming away at my thoughts and I knew that it’s my quote for Writer’s quote Wednesday.
I mulled over it nursing a mug of tea and toast and not willing to accept the perhaps part of these things.
I continued ruminating over it even as I later nursed this yogurt and granola beside me, still questioning the perhaps part of things.
My dull mind refused to acknowledge the fact that perhaps meant you may go for months and months as a writer, waxing brilliant and intelligent words and all, yet pauperized.
Perhaps meant, queries that may never get answered and yet you continue swallowing the bitter pill of your writers pride and keep sending the queries until your name is emblazoned on the medulla oblongata of the editor, until he/she decides to save himself a thriving headache and gives you a space to submit your write up on the different species of Cactus.
I ruminated further, taking off my rose-coloured spectacles and the truth of the matter is that we are all freelancing on our blogs, labouring lovingly over our words with the word ‘perhaps’ hanging in the balance of our thoughts.
‘Perhaps,’ in the long run, every single word would be worth the trouble and your medal as a writer, well worn with pride.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Today’s featured blogs are:
Margos Views. You simply cannot ignore that little voice. I dare you 😉
Writing in North Norfolk Irresistible photos that connect with your spirit, body and soul.
Cane Pain What is there not to love about this article. I was glad I read it last thing before sleeping two nights ago and it gave me good chuckles.
A tribe untangled A new friend of mine and the beautiful bright words makes me feel good. I like positive things.
Leaping for freedom Have you met Colette? She has such a bright mind and her articles always brings out the drive in the reader.
Please visit their blogs and say hello. A few minutes may gain you a friendly support.
Do you want more eyes on your words?
Well then, add your LINK into this loop.
Regards
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Ronovan knows how to pick the words. For this week, we got ‘Flash & Dance.’ I enjoy this Haiku challenge and I am glad I took it up. Thank you kind Sir 🙂
The flash of lissome thighs
As her skirt flounced with the dance
Set his spirits on high
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His flash of false teeth
And his toupee that flew with his twist
Made her dance steps falter.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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