Hi. My name is Sinead and the other day I felt like getting all interactive on my blog. Lots of people do. They get all interactive and everyone takes part and it is fun. So I thought why not me too? It also attracts new faces to the blog. So this is what I done.
Write a poem no longer than 14 lines and 54 words including the words haversack, hurdy-gurdy, enthralling, table, and Rumpelstiltskin. The posting was accompanied by a picture of an Australian short-beaked echidna for inspiration because they’re cute and lay only one egg every year. So they would be no good keeping instead of chickens!!!!
Well, no one responded, not even my friend Debbie, so I asked my friend Debbie if she had any thoughts as to why, and she said “Nah she didn’t”. She should know because she has an interactive page on her blog and lots of people post pictures of themselves on it. But I don’t want to do the same because it will look as if I never had an original thought in my life. Anyway I never posted a picture of myself on my friend Debbie’s blog because my parents probably read it.
I also asked my biology teacher about it, and all he said was “Not another, Shirley” and I said my name wasn’t Shirley. So he wasn’t worth asking. He’s like that, Mr Thompson, he puts everyone down. But I’m not going to let it beat me so I’m going to put up another challenge and let’s hope this time a lot of people find it attractive enough to enter and give it likes.
My friend Debbie just asked me if I wanted to go down to the town mall, so I said yes, so I’ll come back to this later maybe.
Hi. This is me later. I’ve changed my mind, and now I’m creating a new blog on fashion. I’m only going to have pictures of me wearing my own stuff. Let’s hope it attracts lots of likes. Ms Turnwall, who teaches gymnastics at school and I bumped into her at the mall, and she is always very encouraging, and she said that the idea of my fashion page would not only be thought-provoking but it could also be sensational. So come on, everyone, and give my fashion pictures lots of likes after I post them, probably next week after I finish the written assignment Ms Turnwall gave us to do on Russians spying on our national gymnastics team at the Olympics.
I’m hoping to be a journalist when I leave school so all this is good practice.
Ridiculous me thought Instagram was all the rage while I never had a snowball’s chance in hell unless I wrote like El James or looked like Dol Drums!
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I’m feeling really left behind these days when it comes to modern things. I still use the microwave only for reheating the coffee – let alone do anything on Instagram or Tweeteringham etc.
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Oh goodness. I’ve seen blogs like this. Never been back…
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I’d imagine that blogs like this could be quite common!
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The plague is not confined to the Blogdom. There are legions of fake authors out there hogging the shelves of bookstores. Most of them are masquerading as bloggers too, and are they conceited! True authors are a vanishing tribe.
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Well, dear Uma, don’t vanish completely!
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Was this a work of fiction? I found it to be quite humorous. “Hi. This is me later. I’ve changed my mind, and now I’m creating a new blog on fashion.”
I personally found this quite comical.
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Regular followers have little trouble discerning the BS!
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All aboard the pretentious train – toot, toot!
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I admit it–I tried to write a poem using Sinead’s prompt (preparing for the next bad poetry contest!) Unfortunately, I couldn’t limit myself to only 54 words. I just had so much to say!
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!! I almost tried to do the same but gave up once I found I couldn’t spell Rumplestitskin without having to copy and paste.
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Hi Sinead, this is me. You sound so cool and your approach to writing blogs is awesome. You should write just about that gal.
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You bloody flirt Matthew!
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You summed up my feelings about the interactive blogs precisely. I wish them well though.
Sinead’s poem is haunting me. Any chance to see the original?
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Sinead’s poem awaits to be written!
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I can feel it coming… I can!
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LOL!!!
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🙂
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Oh boy. What a confused person. I can relate. I purchased music software once thinking I’ll make post-rock albums and post them on Bandcamp and I’m still reading the manuals. I’ll probably give up and start playing football again thinking I’ll play one day for Liverpool!
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You and me, dear Nitin. Except I didn’t purchase the music software – I got someone visiting Thailand to buy it for $10 and it that was 20 years ago and is still the only software I have!
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I have a software called Ableton Live. I’m still watching tutorials and reading manuals. It’s all so very complicated these days. And creating something with melody with the right chord progression is harder. I can’t even figure out which key on the keyboard to hit!
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That’s fantastic. The program I use is called Finale. I never read a manual until after I’ve mastered the software! I’m too impatient.
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Enthralling
My heart skips a beat
The hurdy-gurdy of existence catches me off guard
I feel that I have come so far
As I reach for my haversack
The table gives way
And they call me Rumpelstiltskin
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A quick search took me to a website of “Once Upon a Time Transcripts”. And although it didn’t have a three-legged table called Rumplle-thingy it still sounded a bit like you??? Anyway, thanks for the comment and for me spending half an hour on it!
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Funny, all my search turned up was a website entitled “7 causes of heart palpitations.” No, I don’t know anything about that website.
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