I’m Back!

And so are the WordPress prompts!  O happy day!

High on the Happy Side (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

First, me: I’m not really back; I just need a break from banishing extraneous semi-colons and you know I can’t stay away from blogging even when I’ve told you I’m staying away from blogging.*  But I won’t be visiting you yet, sorry.

Didn’t  I do well? I went one whole day without posting!

*I’m sure that sentence needed a semi-colon after ‘semi-colon’.

For readers who joined us this year, in 2011 the WordPress people posted a prompt a day to encourage bloggers to post every day.  I needed no encouragement to post but I liked the idea, so I signed up.

I took the prompts seriously at first but on the day they asked us how we would react to kittens in a sack on a railway track, my seriousness flew out of the window, typing fingers dug deep into the back of their credibility.

It led to responses like these:

What makes someone beautiful?

An offer to clean my house in one hand and a bag of Maltesers in the other.

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How do you know when it’s time to go?

I get a little damp patch around my lower-middle area.

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Will Smith (Photo credit: Martin de Witte)

Describe the perfect sandwich.

Will Smith.Me.BradPitt.

What?  It could happen…

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What shoul​d you do w​hen sick o​n vacation​?

Find a bucket, quick.  Some things cross the cultural divide.

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What does “home” mean to you?

Too much cleaning; too little pay.  But at least I know where I keep the buckets.

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What is your favorite way to get physical exercise?

I have a really good system: I spend all morning at the computer, exercising my brain and fingers at your blogs.  At some point I fall into a dead faint, which tells me I’m hungry.

• walk from computer to kitchen
• put kettle on
• walk back to computer
• walk from computer to kitchen
• make tea
• prepare cereal
• walk back to computer
• eat cereal whilst reading blogs
• walk back to kitchen
• get piece of fruit (also known as ‘packet of crisps’)
• walk back to computer
• eat frusps whilst reading blogs
• walk back to kitchen to dispose of fruit packet
• get another piece of fruit (also known as ‘chocolate’)
• walk back to computer
• eat other fruitlate whilst reading blogs
• walk back to kitchen to dispose of other fruit packet
• walk back to computer with tea, now at perfect drinking temperature (adding weights to an exercise regime gives a better workout)
• drink tea whilst reading blogs
• walk back to kitchen with almost-empty mug (it is impolite to drain the cup)
• walk back to computer
• read blogs

As you can see, I get a lot of aerobic exercise on a daily basis.  Time to celebrate with a slap-up meal!

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My readers and I decided that I didn’t have to introduce every prompt post with the sentence, The WordPress prompters asked….

If a post has an italicised, bold introduction, it’s probably a WordPress prompt and you should expect a silly answer.

And I wonder why I’ve never been Freshly Pressed.

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