Month: August 2016

#NoirWednesday roundup – ‘The Little House”

A great set of responses to our continuing ‘Noir’ theme – “Let your dark side come out to play…” #NoirWednesday Thank you to everyone who took part; and to my Silent Eye co-director, Sue Vincent, who not only did us a great post (as did Stuart) but is also gradually showing me how to do these, properly! If you’ve not seen them, why not … Read More #NoirWednesday roundup – ‘The Little House”

The Unseen Sea – 2: Kiss of the Planets

LUCA’s birth continues… The Silent Eye Part Two of The Unseen Sea: adrift in the enneagram LUCA didn’t know it back then, but her birth as the all-mother of organic life on Earth was witnessed by the entire solar system. The ‘positive’ energy behind life, a higher variant of light as we know it and relayed by the Sun, began its spiral into the … Read More The Unseen Sea – 2: Kiss of the Planets

The tiny house #NoirWednesday

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Image: Steve Tanham for his #NoirWednesday She was young, beautiful and the sun rose in her eyes. A stranger child… found by the wayside and raised by the elders. The village lads vied for her favour. Their mothers nodded doting heads and grandfathers remembered their  vigour when the sun struck her midnight tresses, painting them blue.…

Post Brexit #noirwednesday

Wonderful response from Geoff at Tangental to #NoirWednesday photo prompt: The Little House

#NoirWednesday: the small house

Originally posted on Morpethroad:
Picture by: Stephen Tanham It was a house like any other house. A little house over a bridge, doing what little houses over bridges did. Only it wasn’t. This house long thought to be a small house in which shelter could be sought when crossing the bridge held a dark and sinister secret. So dark and sinister that it curled…

Toll Bridge… #NoirWednesday

Stuart’s contribution to #NoirWednesday…

#NoirWednesday: the small house

Originally posted on pensitivity101:
A new challenge from Steve over at Sun in Gemini for Wednesdays, so I thought I’d give it a go. #NoirWednesday: the small house https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/25507207/posts/1122975263 The Two kept themselves to themselves, never mixing with any of the locals to pass the time of day or even a simple nod of acknowledgement if someone said hello. Rumours were rife in such…

The Unseen Sea: Adrift in the Magical Enneagram

Life as we can know it… The Silent Eye There is only one Life. But there are a dazzling myriad ways in which it finds expression. Life is very simple to define at this symbolic level: it is the animation of matter, such that it exhibits awareness. The scale of that awareness varies from the most primitive forms of single-celled response to environment all … Read More The Unseen Sea: Adrift in the Magical Enneagram

The great Shepherds’ Pie Triumph

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
I had shepherds’ pie for my breakfast… It isn’t as bad as it seems… After nearly a week of not eating a thing A good meal was the stuff of my dreams. * A mouthful of toast had been madness… A yoghurt as good as it got… After turning my stomach with every delight I would…

The very model of an amateur grammarian

Originally posted on Stroppy Editor:
(With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan) I am the very model of an amateur grammarian I have a little knowledge and I am authoritarian But I make no apology for being doctrinarian We must not plummet to the verbal depths of the barbarian I’d sooner break my heart in two than sunder an infinitive And I’d disown my closest…

#NoirWednesday: the small house

Join in the ‘Noir’ fun in the run up to the weekend… Use the photo prompt or add one of your own. We’ve all got a dark side… kickstart it and let your imagination flow! As well as being fun it can point to things in ourselves that need more of the ‘light’ of our attention. But let’s have the fun, first… Make it … Read More #NoirWednesday: the small house

Late #midnighthaiku

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Midnight becomes noon Morpheus is a healer I accept his kiss My sincere thanks for all the good wishes. This bug or whatever it is, is taking its toll. I can’t cope with the PC screen very well at present so will be spending as little time as possible in front of it until I am…