An advent calendar of sorts Day 4. (also Sunday 160)

Bah. Humbug! I don’t even want to think about Merry Christmas for at least two weeks, but by then all Yule stuff will have gone and Easter eggs will be on sale.

Sunday 160 is a weekly challenge run by The Monkey Man. Check it out on his blog.

Sunday 160

Still dragging out the NaNo extracts!  It's for Monkey Man, as usual. And it's heavily edited from its original to make it 160 characters. But here you are:

Ted Mathews believed he was a big fish in a small pool. The fact that he was actually small fry did not detract from his inflated opinion of his own importance.

160 characters from NaNo.

Sorry to keep reminding everyone, but I'm NaNoing, so I'm not coming up with anything new for my weekly challenges.  Here's one of the rules of the Sea View Hotel, slightly amended for character count.

We don’t permit guests to bring pets here, because it’s bad enough having the place dripping with wet kids, without the added hazard of a pack of soggy doggies.

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Sunday 160 is set by the Monkey Man. For more info, go and visit him. 

Sunday 160. November.

This time of year is very dark. Nights are drawing in but the lights of the holiday season are still some weeks away. Light a candle -chase away some darkness.

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160 characters for the Monkey Man. Best I can do when I'm trying to do NaNo.

Sunday 160. Making cow eyes.

Have you ever looked right into a cow’s soft, brown eyes?  You’ll see the depths of the ocean there, the breadth of the universe, but nothing happening behind.

160 characters for the Monkey Man. Why not visit him to see what others have produced this week?

Sunday 160. Falling

This autumn seems confused: one minute it’s raining and blowing a gale; and the next there is golden sunshine and clear blue skies behind the yellowing leaves.

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160 characters (including spaces) to make the Monkey Man's day. Why not go and visit to see what others have done.

Sunday 160. Catch up.

Two days on holiday without an internet and I’m way behind with posts and comments. I hope everyone will forgive the delay. I’ll get to you eventually. Honest.

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For the Monkey Man's weekly challenge.

Sunday 160. I must go down to the sea again

Water lapping, waves growling, sigh of surf on shore.
Rattling pebbles across sand and slow drag of kelp over rock.
Scuttling shell creatures.
Sound of the sea.

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Exactly 160 characters (including spaces) for The Monkey Man.  Actually, we went to the seaside yesterday and it was wonderful.

Sunday 160. Oh dear!

As soon as I saw you I was besotted. Your eyes, your body, your smile, were all perfect. From the start I knew I was in love.
I also knew I was in big trouble.

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160 characters (including spaces) for The Monkey Man

Sunday 160. Wistful

I’m missing my holiday. I remember every single day of it and it was only last week. But the restfulness and contentment are slipping away. When can I go back?

160 characters for The Monkey Man

Sunday 160. Fall or autumn? Means the same.

They tell me that Autumn is a beautiful time of year. All the colour and the fresh, crisp mornings and rustling leaves. I guess it is – if you’re not a tree. 

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It's for the Monkey Man's Sunday 160 challenge.

Prepared in advance because I'm away from my computer right now. Not sure if I'll have web access so could someone please fill in the Linky for me? Thanks.

Sunday 160. How low?

‘Just how low can you get?’ Susan yelled as she stormed out and slammed the door behind her.
Martin called after her: ‘I’m a limbo dancer, what did you expect?’

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With apologies to anyone who knows the original joke!

Now head over to the Monkey Man's place to see what else the Sunday 160 teams have dreamed up this week.

Sunday 160: Just desserts

When the dessert arrived I heard Mother’s ghostly voice: ‘If you eat that you’ll be sick!’  But I stuck my spoon in with abandon.  Two hours later – guess what?


Sunday 160 is run by The Monkey Man. Go and see what other people have offered!

Sunday 160. Vertigo

The view from up here’s great. I was amazed when I woke this morning. I just wish I knew how I got up here and how to get down.  Must have been some stag night!

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It's for the Monkey Man. 160 characters of fiction!

Sunday 160: Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Reluctantly handing over the owner’s manual, he knew he would never recover. But selling the full-size dalek replica meant he could afford the rent this month.

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Sunday 160 is a weekly chalenge to tell a tale in exactly 160 characters. It's hosted by The Monkey Man.

This week's IS fiction - honest!

Sunday 160. Two Steeples

They promised that the Two Steeples underwear would never shrink but they never warned anyone that woolly undies are the itchiest clothing you could ever wear! 

That's exactly 160 characters for The Monkey Man.The photo is an old advertising panel from Blists Hill Victorian Town in Ironbridge.

Sunday 160. Vistas

The Fens’ flat landscape holds a bleak beauty and produces hardy people. Sons of the soil. Land of Oliver Cromwell, who overthrew a king. Land of my ancestors.

Sunday 160 is a weekly challenge hosted by The Monkey Man, to write a story in exactly 160 characters.

Sunday 160. Road kill

Height of summer, and the road is punctuated with the bodies of young animals, whose short lives were ended by passing traffic as they explored their new world.

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Sunday 160 is a challenge hosted by The Monkey Man. The idea is to write a story in exactly 160 characters.

Sunday 160. Double take.

Henry Smith could hardly believe his eyes.  It looked like -surely not - a Dalmatian dog driving the car in front! Then he realised – it was a left hand drive. 

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Just a bit of nonsense this week. For the Sunday 160 - a story in exactly 160 characters. Hosted by The Monkey Man. Go see what other people have to offer.

Sunday 160. Back pain.

Back, butt, thigh, knee, calf, ankle, foot.   Like hot needles in my body.  The pattern is diagnostic. It can be only one thing.  I really hate having sciatica!

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Sunday 160 is a weekly challenge set by the Monkey Man that involves writing a 160 character story, poem or microfiction. Go visit to see some more.