C L Spillard

I think that's the first streetscape photo I've ever seen where a car actually improves it.

It absolutely does!

Perhaps in 1930 there was still a bit of a shortage of men, after WW1.
Also people in very poor health tended not to get married - health (and prejudices!) are better now.

It's all in the best possible taste!

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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #Bulge

Bulging wallet, giveaway bulge, battle of the bulge...

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#prompt #Art #CoverArt
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Facts have a left wing bias.

(also, use of subjunctive:🏆 )

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He took a deep breath.
“Ladies and gentlemen.”
Two dozen Brit faces fixed on him. Crooked teeth, ragged hair, dark eyes.
“I...”
Could he go through with this?
“Used to work at that Camp.”
He studied the eyes. #Curious, polite; expecting an explanation.
#MartialMonday
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It even rhymes!
It'd make a great opening pair of lines for a #clerihew - if you're into that sort of thing.

a bridge over a body of water in a minecraft world Alt: a bridge over a body of water in a misty night

#Hope spans like a bridge.
One side, your predicament -
across, the unknown.

#Scifaikusaturday #scifaiku #haiku
#Gephyrophobia

a black and white flag with a cross on it is flying in the wind Alt: Flag of Cornwall (St Piran) - white 'square' cross on a black background

If that's where I think it is, we drove past it this morning and there were also Scottish, Welsh and Cornish flags!
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

"Got
It?"
"Sort-of,
Thematically"

#LuaViEr #gist #acrostic

FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.

"Where's the Beef?"

'Sustrans' is far easier to say and remember, and includes *all* sustainable transport.
(Also, is 'Trust' and order, like Walk Wheel and Cycle, or does it mean that Sustrans is/was a trust?)

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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #scale

Scale the hights, large-scale, off the scale...

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what if it really is rapture day but there was only one person virtuous enough and they remained virtuous by living a quiet, solitary life and so nobody has noticed they’re gone and we’ll never know the rapture happened

So, did they not have the Law of Ancient Lights in olde Flanders?

a diagram of a comet 's orbit around the sun and earth 's orbit Alt: a diagram of earth's, and a comet's, orbit around the sun.

‪ #Wayfarer in time
Earth shifts in #frosty orbit -
balance point moves on

#BlueSkyRelay
#HaikuChallenge
#weirdMicro #equinox

(Every 72 years, the #PrecessionOfTheEquinox moves the date of spring equinox back one whole day. In just 9 years' time, I will have seen this happen.)

It's all week.
Has to be, soory - I was ill on Thursday, so the prompt came 2 days late!

That's the one!
Couldn't recall it.

There's a name for the 'law of natute' that stipulates that the answer to all headlines formulated as questions is, "No."

the woman is wearing a crown on her head and has black lips . Alt: A woman with dark hair and black lips puts a gold crown on her head.

#Knot in the #blonde #crown...
that #design #turned simple gold
into deep #shadow

#2WordPrompt Design & Turn
#Penstricken Knot
#RetroArtPrompt Crown
#VssDaily Blonde
#VssFantasy Shadow

“You didn’t reckon much to the #prospect of eternal life, did you? Turned it down flat when I offered you it.”
She struggled at the #knot fastening her hands. “That’s... not fair!”
She grasped at an idea.

#MartialMonday
#Penstricken
#ThePriceOfTime #Fantasy

a heart shaped mirror says i am inverted on it Alt: a heart-shaped locket opens, revealing a smile and the words "i am inverted"

Write things! Quote your stuff! Let us see your marvellous works!
This week's #thurds prompt word is: #invert #inverse

Inverted images, inverse relationship, inverse meaning...

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#writers

a room with a lot of green and purple stars Alt: a gridded flat landscape at night with a lot of tiny green and purple stars that look like rain

#Vast, #infinite sky.
Does anybody #care
if rain falls on Mars?

#scifaikusaturday #scifaiku #haiku
#fantaiku #haikuchallenge #haikufeels

a wooden stool sits on a balcony with a cup and bowl on it Alt: a wooden stool on a balcony with a view out over trees, and a cup and bowl perched on the railing.

Old battered chair.
How many coversations
interrupted?
#SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt Haiku

a man with long hair has his hands folded in front of him Alt: a man with long hair, pale face and red eyes, wearing all black, has his hands folded in front of him

The vampire, #sanguine
feels no #guilt for what he craves -
says "it's just my #style"

#SciFaikuSaturday #scifaiku #fantaiku
#HaikuChallenge #haiku
#HaikuFeels #crave
#vss365 #BlueSkyRelay

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She clenched her fists.
But lost her grip.
“It... Serves! You! RIGHT!” She looked from the flames to his face: recalled a daft ditty she knew, about making the punishment fit the #crime.
His words cut across her first, deep, breath—
“Aye. That it does.”
#scififri
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a man in a red uniform sits at a table with a man in a suit Alt: a prisoner being interviewed across a table, in a plain room, by a man in a suit.

He made the effort - a big effort - to stop the haze coming again.
More words. He grabbed one:
“What’s ‘ #potential’?”
“It’s power. It’s what you *could* do, if things were different. If things worked properly, in your mind.”
“Oh. Like?”
“You’d no longer have to be a #criminal.”
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