🐘 Nancy is a storyteller, music blogger, humorist, poet, curveballer, noir dreamer 🐘
Greetings, my fellow WordPressers!
Big thanks, Debbie D., the Rock ‘n’ Roll Queen from Canada, for her shout out! Debbie has an amazing blog, The Doglady’s Den. Click on the link and say hi to Debbie. I’m sure you’re gonna dig her blog; it’s alive with beautiful photos from her travels, including concerts and music. Tell her Nancy sent you. 😎🎶🖤
NAR©2025
This is “I Love Rock & Roll” by Joan Jett
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing
Prompt #425 using the word ‘lagoon’,
with inspiration from a great image
by Kevin @ No Theme Thursday.
In exactly 48 words, this is my take.
Rest In Peace, Ozzy. You brought so much into our lives and there will never be anyone like you ever again. We’ll miss you, man. You’ll never be forgotten. 🤘🏼 🖤
This is a clip from Ozzy’s final performance.
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This week in Glyn Wilton’s Mixed Music Bag,
“The Last Days”, he’s asking us to write about
a song which mentions the current month.
Here’s my featured May artist and his song.
Hey Gang! My Mac has died and will be offline until the new one is in my hands. See you all soon! – Nancy
WHAT A SCREWUP I AM SOMETIMES!
Greetings my friends. I screwed up the publication dates of my two most recent stories …. ‘Faking It’ and ‘Undercover’. If you see a message that says “OOPS! Nothing Here” …. or words to that effect …. I apologize. There really are two new stories floating around somewhere! If you can’t find today’s posts and you’d like to read them, you may click HERE and HERE. Thanks! I hope that helps alleviate the mess I made! – Nancy
Written for OLWG #414 and ZOZO
17.04.25 – Extra Prompts. Combined,
there are seven inspirations, four for
the first story and three for the second.
This is my take and these are my stories.
Written for Share Your World
where Di is asking us a few
questions. Here are the Q&As:
Di at pensitivity101 is asking us
to share our world by answering
a few questions. I can do that!
Here are her questions ~
Written for The Unicorn Challenge where
we are urged to get creative in 250 words or less.
The photo below is our inspiration; this is my story.
The A-Z Challenge is coming up soon and this is the first year I’m participating. My theme is a topic near and dear to my heart, something I blog about often: the world of entertainment, in particular music and film. I’m excited! Watch for my first post in April; a very special friend is preparing a custom-made logo for my theme as we speak!
Stay tuned!
NAR©2025
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Apologies if you are not hearing from me personally. I am having problems commenting on many blogger’s posts. I’m sure I’m not alone in this as other’s have remarked similarly. This is a real inconvenience and I’m sorry. I hope it gets rectified quickly. If you can, leave a comment. If I am allowed to respond, I will. I feel like I’m in that movie, Marooned! 😅
Nancy
WordPress asks: What is your favorite candy?
Continue reading “WordPress Daily Prompt”
This is what we watched last night …. “Quartet” from 2012, a comedy with Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, and more, directed by Dustin Hoffman. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents. You don’t need to be an opera lover to enjoy this one! Here’s a trailer for you:
I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥 🍿 🥤
NAR©2024
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If you’re anything like me and can’t find something good to watch on television, you’ll look for a movie. I did exactly that last night and thought it might be fun to share with you what I watched; you might want to watch, too. I can’t promise I’ll suggest a movie every week, but I’ll try. I’ll happily take any suggestions for movies from you as well.
Last night’s fare was a movie from 2022 called “Living” starring the excellent English actor Bill Nighy, recommended to me by our friend, Clive. Here’s a clip to whet your appetite:
I’ll be sure to save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥 🍿 🥤
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Sadje has asked us in her Sunday Poser #208 – Making Money:
“Making money from your blog is becoming easier, will you
take this opportunity?” Here is my answer to her question.
Written for “Share Your World” where
Di has asked the following questions:
I was coming up empty today, friends … uninspired, tired, and dragging my sorry ass around the house. Then I came across this brilliant post by my friend, Bluebird of Bitterness, and all was right in my little world. What’s that you say? You don’t like cats? Oh, FFS, don’t go getting your knickers in a twist; you don’t have to love cats or the theatre to appreciate these funnies. Blue always saves what is considered the best for the last. Let’s see if you agree. And while you’re here, check our what else is on Blue’s site; you’ll be glad you did!
NAR©2024
This is some guy and a group I never heard of with a song called “Bluebird” 😹
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Well, kids, the possibility has become a reality. First thing this morning I will be having back surgery. It’s time; I can’t put it off any longer. Hopefully it won’t be too much of an ordeal but one never knows with these things. I’ll be off WordPress while I recuperate. Comments on this post have been disabled simply because I won’t be able to respond to them as quickly as I’d like and I apologize for that. I’m sure you understand.
That’s the story, my friends. See you on the flip side. 😎
Best always
~ Nancy
This is the R.E.M. song “Everybody Hurts” performed by Joe Cocker.
LYRICS
When your day is long
And the night, the night is yours alone
When you’re sure you’ve had enough
Of this life, well hang on
Don’t let yourself go
‘Cause everybody cries
Everybody hurts sometimes
Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it’s time to sing along
When your day is night alone (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go (hold on)
If you think you’ve had too much
Of this life, well hang on
‘Cause everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts
Don’t throw your hand, oh no
Don’t throw your hand
If you feel like you’re alone
No, no, no, you are not alone
If you’re on your own in this life
The days and nights are long
When you think you’ve had too much
Of this life to hang on
Well, everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody cries
Everybody hurts, sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes
So hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Peter Lawrence Buck/Michael E. Mills/William Thomas Berry/John Michael Stipe
Everybody Hurts lyrics © Night Garden Music
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