Mandy Tams The Golden Girl's Blog
I don't want you to get bored looking at me and hubby in the garden last year, so I'll show it to you in the daylight, my refuge where the foxes wander.
There is not much that many of you don't know about me now, I enjoy a good laugh and if I can find one I will. If I can make someone smile my day is complete. I enjoy people and people watching but do not suffer fools easily, mainly because my dad told me I would be one when I grew up, and I think he may have been right.
I was born in Yorkshire and the extended family are still there but we now live in Staffordshire, we being my husband of 33 years and our two sons, well one of them has left and lives with his partner a girl whom we love dearly.
My latest hobby is writing and from this I am learning a great deal from and about people, that write.
My latest, latest thing to keep me occupied is making myself a nice new fleece top, it's getting cold and my old one; which must be 12 years old has had to be sent to a better place and I miss it already RIP>
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Most Recent Blog Post
Five Riddles
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Blog Posted:1/26/2013 5:29:00 AM
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1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday?
5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!
THE ANSWERS TO ALL FIVE THE RIDDLES ARE BELOW:
Answers:
1. The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead. That one was easy, right?
2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry (shot; held under water; and hung).
3. Charcoal, as it is used in barbecuing.
4. Sure you can name three consecutive days, yesterday, today, and tomorrow!
5. The letter e, which is the most common letter used in the English language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.
How did you do?
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My Poems
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| Date Posted | Poem Title | Form | Categories |
| 5/21/2013 | Why there were no Unicorns on Noah's Ark | Couplet | animal, |
| 5/20/2013 | Little One | Verse | memory,sad, |
| 5/20/2013 | GO GIRL GO ADULTS ONLY | Rhyme | humorous, |
| 5/1/2013 | Bacchus | Haiku | wine, |
| 5/1/2013 | A Ripple In Time | Light Poetry | longing, |
| 4/30/2013 | Re Awakening | Sonnet | joy,love, |
| 4/29/2013 | Our Heart | Sonnet | emotions, |
| 4/25/2013 | Portrait In Words | Sonnet | character, |
| 4/22/2013 | Self Portrait | Verse | character, |
| 4/22/2013 | Understanding | Rhyme | missing you, |
| 4/17/2013 | The Kitchen Fitter | Free verse (vers libre) | life,me,me, |
| 4/16/2013 | haiku 3 | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/16/2013 | Love And Trust | Sonnet | love,words,love,trust, |
| 4/14/2013 | The First Time | Sonnet | love,truth, |
| 4/12/2013 | UFO | Senryu | love, |
| 4/11/2013 | Upon A Bed Of Petals | Quatrain | love,romance,love, |
| 4/10/2013 | Water Babies | Rhyme | imagination,children,worl |
| 4/10/2013 | Famous Couples | Rhyme | lost,god,eve,god, |
| 4/5/2013 | The Rescue metamorph | Rhyme | love,child,child,friend,h |
| 4/1/2013 | The Mole | Limerick | humorous, |
| 3/29/2013 | Trial and Error | Rhyme | metaphor,strength, |
| 3/27/2013 | Z is for Zaria | ABC | nature,name,tree,beauty,f |
| 3/27/2013 | The Rattle Of The Keyboard | Grook | write, |
| 3/23/2013 | The Missing Piece | Rhyme | life,me,day,me, |
| 3/22/2013 | What Lurks Within | Couplet | angst,light,light,may,me, |
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