RDP Saturday: EGG

Can I egg you on to take part in an Easter-themed challenge?  Hens’ eggs, ducks’ eggs, ostrich eggs, chocolate eggs: …

RDP Saturday: APRIL

April.  Here in Europe, it’s an optimistic kind of month.  Lengthening, warmer days; new life in the fields – gambolling …

RDP Saturday: COAST

The image below is one I took on Thursday on a trip to the coast.  You could choose this kind …

RDP Saturday: KITE

Ah!  The childhood pleasure of flying a kite, and watching it soaring, tumbling, weaving across the sky!  Or the other …

RDP Saturday: TRACERY

Perhaps you’re in a Gothic Cathedral, admiring the stone tracery outlining the jewelled colours of the stained glass windows.  Perhaps …

RDP Saturday: RUS-IN-URBE

What a cheek.  First of all I get all high-falutin’ and write in Latin, and then I pretend that three …

RDP Saturday: WALK

Just that.  Walk.  Most of us do it every day, without thinking.  Some of us walk purposefully.  Some of us …

RDP Saturday: IRRIDESCENCE

I thought of peacocks and other gaudy birds: I thought of sumptuous silks and lustrous Moorish tiles. I thought of …

RDP Saturday: AIR

Today, would you like to air your thoughts about air. Fresh, bracing and crisp winter air: sultry summer stormy air. That …

RDP Saturday: LOST

Lost your keys?  Lost your rag?  Lost your way? Lost your mind? Lost a sock? So long as you haven’t …

RDP Saturday: SANCTUARY

Sanctuary.  What do you think of when you read this word?  That bolthole in the house or garden where nobody …

RDP Saturday: EFFORT

Well, we’re into February now.  Any New Year Resolutions you might have made may by now be distant memories.  Time …

RDP Saturday: FROSTED

Well, it’s all right for me, living towards the north of the Northern hemisphere.  Of course I know about frosted …

RDP Saturday: Cook

It’s gotta be done.  We have to cook.  Like it or loathe it, we all have to eat.  What will …

RDP Saturday: RIVER

I’ve always had this notion that a city isn’t a proper city unless it has a river running through it.  …

RDP Saturday: THREE

I’ve chosen ‘three’ as today’s prompt, because tonight and tomorrow, Spanish-speaking countries will be celebrating the arrival of the Three …

RDP Saturday: ABSTRACT

Abstract: ideas, thoughts, images that are less than tangible. Abstract:  a summary of a longer piece. To abstract:  to extract or remove. …

RDP Saturday – White

White washing drying on the line; white sands; white as the driven snow; white as a sheet; white lies; white …

RDP Saturday – PLAY

It’s that time of year.  Parents will be crowding into their offspring’s primary school, seating themselves awkwardly on small-child sized …

RDP Tuesday: Rain

Here in Europe, Christmas is beginning to take over.  Let’s take things back to basics, and consider the weather: rain.  …

RDP Tuesday: WALK

What’s it to be?  A walk into the sunset?  A long walk off a short pier? You’ll never walk alone? …

RDP Tuesday: Broadcast

Were you, like me, brought up on listening the the radio?  Or do you prefer more modern ways of communication?  …

Ragtag Tuesday: Past

This week, I’m suggesting a look at the past.  The idea’s been prompted by the often sensitive recent coverage of …

RDP Tuesday: Parcel

Parcel.  It might be a present, or that useful thingummyjig that you ordered from eBay.  It’s a unit of land.  …

RDP Tuesday: Dead

It’s that time of year again.  Here in the northern hemisphere we’re busy sweeping up dead leaves, and dead-heading the …

RDP Tuesday: Flag

Will you begin to flag as you lay the flags for your patio in the garden?  Perhaps you should hang …

RDP Tuesday: Serendipity

Serendipity: you know, that lucky chance.  When you just happen to be in the right place at the right time. …

RDP Tuesday – RUGGED

‘Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran’, runs the English tongue twister. My tastes too run to rugged rocks …

RDP Tuesday: CONTRAST

Ah!  The contrast between the shortening days of autumn, when the mornings are cool, damp and misty and the nights …

RDP# Tuesday: MIGRATION

It’s that time of year.  In our part of the world, many birds have long gone to their winter haunts …

RDP# Tuesday prompt: CREPUSCULE

It’s getting towards the equinox.  For us in the northern hemisphere it means ever-shorter days, with the crepuscule – twilight …

RDP# Tuesday prompt: ORANGE

Here in England in summer, oranges were not the only fruit: apricots glowed on the greengrocer’s market stall, and peaches and …

RDP# Tuesday Prompt: ENERGY

Energy: those small people in the playground; that compost heap promising vigour to the plants that will make use of …

RDP# Tuesday prompt: Fair

A gentle fair maiden was going to the fair. ‘Well really’ her brother said, ‘That’s not fair.’ What dreadful doggerel.  You …

RDP 82#: YARN

Are you a spinner, a weaver, a knitter?  No, me neither.  But I am a blogger.  So are you.  Spin …

RDP # 75: BLUE

Blue. Well, that leaves the field wide open. You can write about almost anything: show us almost what you like. …

RDP # 68: PLAY

Well.  You could write a play.  You could show and tell about baby animals or children doing what they do …

RDP# 61: PULSE

Pulse.  That’s the word for today.  Will it be your heart, rhythmically beating, perhaps thumping energetically because of disappointment, fear, …

RDP # 54: Reflection

Time for reflection: gazing into a country pond; an urban plate glass window….. or simply pondering. What will you choose?

#RDP 47: CLOUDS

There seem to be many clouds on the horizon these days, at least from where I’m sitting in the United …

RDP# 40: DAPPLED

Today’s word is a summery one.  ‘Dappled‘.  It’s sunlight and shade in mottled patches on a woodland path.  It’s farm …

RDP # 33: SERRIED

The jagged peaks of mountains marching off towards the horizon; a forest; birds crowded onto telephone lines; demonstrators in a …