24 Posts from January 2026

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Story Prompt Generator

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Story for today’s TDC Story Prompt Generator flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Wandering through the desert looking for a home Freda the Friendly Ghost came upon an oasis. As she looked around in its nooks and crannies she found a shimmering cloak. Maybe this will help me to keep warm, she whispered. As she spoke the cloak lifted up like a magic carpet and she knew if she stepped onto it, she […]

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Frankenstein Poems

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How to grow a Poet Tree? flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Last year I bought myself Kate Clanchy’s How to Grow Your Own Poem and I have been gradually working through it, writing my thoughts into a special notebook which I keep by my desk. So when I saw today’s TDC I reached for this notebook and flicked through it. When you read a ‘Frankenstein poem’ you get the sense that it’s […]

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New Recruits!

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When I saw the TDC today I heard these lyrics in my head: They want you, they want you They want you as a new recruit They want you, they want you They want you as a new recruit Village People, In the Navy, I thought – yup, that will do. I searched for the official video and tried to make a  gif of that section, but none of my usual gif makers would do it. Then I remembered that […]

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A Winter Morning

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Blackbird flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license A poem for TDC5104 Watching through the window as I was cooking this morning. This is what I saw Three blackbirds hop across the grass As long tailed tits hide in the bushes A fox stretches out leisurely Reaching up to the sun with a lazy paw Frost gleams in the winter sun And magpies caw as they strut between the trees.

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