Words for
Wednesday
Delores
from ‘The Feathered Nest’ offers six words as a writing prompt – recalcitrant,
fangs, dithering, glassy, rodeo, wet. Why not visit her and see what other
writing has been prompted?
It was summer and the season of school fayres and community fêtes
with every group hoping to raise funds. In a bid to appeal to a wider audience
the local church had decided to rename their Flower Festival the Floral Rodeo. People came out of curiosity, hoping for prancing
stallions in the aisles but found instead dithering officials
apologising for any disappointment they had caused. Recalcitrant
children, dragged along by their parents, bared their fangs in a semblance of good humour as a rather wet young curate tried to engage them in conversation.
Glassy-eyed visitors, anxious to escape his enthusiastic
exhortations to join the congregation, gladly donated substantial amounts of
loose change to the church restoration fund and gratefully made their exit to
the cool air of an English summer.
I love it, and can picture it so very clearly. And reading your much more imaginative take I realised I had left rodeo out. Oops. I did say my brain had gone out to lunch.
ReplyDeleteI think I might have paid to get away from that too...great use of the words.
ReplyDeleteNicely done!
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Fun to find your blog again! This is really a clever one for the day! I love it! Hope all is going well for you! Thank you, as always, for visiting my blog!! Hope your week is going well! Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteHa, this does sound like a rather dull affair....one which one would happily exit hurriedly. Smiles.
ReplyDeleteLOL I remember a similar fiasco when I was a kid - it was a pathetic affair billed as a festival. Even the petting zoo was dull - 2 elderly donkeys, a sleeping llama, a goat and a pig. I cried miserably because it was hot, smelly, and there were no pony rides.
ReplyDeleteYou really do these things well; do they just come out on the spur of the moment?
ReplyDeleteHmmm. What would a floral rodeo look like. That could employ the imagination!
ReplyDeleteI like this. "dithering officials" - are there any other kind?
ReplyDeleteIngenious use of the given vocab.!
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