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Tag: RDP daily prompt
RDP Saturday: COAST
The image below is one I took on Thursday on a trip to the coast. You could choose this kind … More
RDP Saturday: KITE
Ah! The childhood pleasure of flying a kite, and watching it soaring, tumbling, weaving across the sky! Or the other … More
RDP Saturday: TRACERY
Perhaps you’re in a Gothic Cathedral, admiring the stone tracery outlining the jewelled colours of the stained glass windows. Perhaps … More
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 … More
RDP Saturday: WALK
Just that. Walk. Most of us do it every day, without thinking. Some of us walk purposefully. Some of us … More
RDP Saturday: IRRIDESCENCE
I thought of peacocks and other gaudy birds: I thought of sumptuous silks and lustrous Moorish tiles. I thought of … More
RDP Saturday: AIR
Today, would you like to air your thoughts about air. Fresh, bracing and crisp winter air: sultry summer stormy air. That … More
RDP Saturday: LOST
Lost your keys? Lost your rag? Lost your way? Lost your mind? Lost a sock? So long as you haven’t … More
RDP Saturday: SANCTUARY
Sanctuary. What do you think of when you read this word? That bolthole in the house or garden where nobody … More
RDP Saturday: EFFORT
Well, we’re into February now. Any New Year Resolutions you might have made may by now be distant memories. Time … More
RDP Saturday: FROSTED
Well, it’s all right for me, living towards the north of the Northern hemisphere. Of course I know about frosted … More
RDP Saturday: Cook
It’s gotta be done. We have to cook. Like it or loathe it, we all have to eat. What will … More
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. … More
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 … More
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. … More
RDP Saturday – White
White washing drying on the line; white sands; white as the driven snow; white as a sheet; white lies; white … More
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 … More
RDP Tuesday: Rain
Here in Europe, Christmas is beginning to take over. Let’s take things back to basics, and consider the weather: rain. … More
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? … More
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 … More
RDP Tuesday – RUGGED
‘Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran’, runs the English tongue twister. My tastes too run to rugged rocks … More
RDP Saturday – FALL
Ragtag Daily Prompt of the day : fall Saturday, September 29, 2018 Create a new post inspired by today’s prompt. … More
RDP# Tuesday: MIGRATION
It’s that time of year. In our part of the world, many birds have long gone to their winter haunts … More
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 … More
