Wednesday 21 September 2011

100 words for Grownups

The starter for  100 words for Grownups. this week is ...out of the mouths of babes.... , this made me smile as children are so often funny and /or poignant in their sayings.

All in a day's work.

 All was quiet in the room, the sound of scratching pencils, the murmur of voices, the occasional squeak of table or chair. Gradually the noise began to rise, as it does. The relaxed atmosphere was spiced with a pinch of ... something going on. She gave the room a cursory glance, then turned back. She issued gentle directions and suggestions. The hint of something going on became stronger. She looked across the room. She started with revulsion. She saw two small boys with pencils sticking out of their nostrils. “Darius, made me do it!”  Out of the mouths of babes...


This actually happened yesterday!



10 comments:

  1. "The relaxed atmosphere was spiced with a pinch of..."

    set the stage perfectly.

    Robin

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  2. Thank you for the kind comments.

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  3. I love how you set the scene with details that made the setting come alive. It took me back to grade school!

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  4. Ditto to all above. The classroom depiction was really good - I was there! And in just a couple of sentences.

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  5. Oh yes, I felt the classroom buzzing. Great job. laurie

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  6. Thank you for the lovely comments xx

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  7. Nothing I can add that hasn't been said already. I too thought you described the classroom atmosphere really well, and I loved the line "spiced with a pinch of...something going on." Sally-Jayne

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  8. haha I can picture that. Great. Agree with all the above comments. :)

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  9. Here you are Ali, if you can visit this link, with dreams of sleepy summer afternoon class rooms and the screech of wooden chairs on polished tile floors... oh the days of St James Junior School , Brightlingsea, Essex, around 1968.

    http://youtu.be/XWVRUqiO_eM

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