The sea is a cruel and unpredictable mistress...

Here's something I wrote a little while ago whilst on holiday in Portugal and just never got round to posting.

The sea is a cruel and unpredictable mistress.

You know when the day starts off well and you're having fun until you find yourself in the middle of the ocean, in what can only be likened to a rubber dinghy....  

And you realise your fate, your life, your every movement from this point forward is in the hands of a guy who's name you don't know and who speaks very bad broken English as a 3rd language.... 

Other then you being in Portugal no-one knows exactly where you are. You gave them no resort name. No hotel name. And definitely no day to day itinerary. 

Shite!! The water's are pretty choppy, perfect for surfers, not so perfect for a barely 10metre swimmer with a very confident non-swimming 5 yr old. When, scratch that. If, you make it home swimming lessons are definitely on the agenda. The water is so choppy that your sprayed every time the stupid under equipped dinghy moves. 

You can feel the salt water drying and crusting on your skin. This was NOT a good idea. You did NOT think this through!! 

There comes a point when calm takes over, a resigned to your fate, (that fate being death) type calm. It settles easily. Calmly even. 

The ocean is beautiful. The colour like nothing you've ever seen. There could be worse ways to go then being claimed by the cool, salty, raging teal of the med. 

And then there is a rainbow. With every lift, splash, spray and additional salt crust a rainbow appears. Just as you are able to see again through the stinging of salt water in your eyes a rainbow lays just on the rift of the tide. Is it like an oasis in the desert? A mirage? Sent here to distract you from the imminent death? 

Sunglasses removed to double check? It is there.. Actually really there... With every rip curl (that's what surfers say right?) forcing you to hang on for dear life a rainbow appears. 

A sign? 

Rainbows promise gold... A happy ending... Life!!!

I put my life in the hands of the rainbow. 

Despite everything we made it back in one piece, Portugal is beautiful and I recommend it highly :-)

PR xx

CREATIVE WRITING: The Airport

Assignment 2: Describe a scene

I was given the Airport...

Bumping, bustling, tears and goodbyes

Queuing, shopping, lounging and sighs

Heels on laminate

Flooring scuffed

Wheels over toes

Apologies rebuffed

Screens not updating, never ending waiting

Croissants and coffee

Stomach anticipating

Flights boarding, passengers missing

Music playing, no-one listening. 

Grandparents ambling

Presents in tow

Suit trousers, perfume, hats, gloves and coats

Early arrivals

Nowhere to go

Duty free beckons, more presents perhaps?

Tea, Scones and Papers. Much rather relax. 

Tannoy announcements

Again and again

Names go unheard

Panic sets in

10 minutes to make it

It’s pretty absurd

Attendants with clipboards

Awaiting the word 

Guy in the corner

Checking the time

Hours left waiting

Hours in line

Wrappers discarded

Trainers untied

Sleeping bag laid out

Battery died 

Stainless steel seating

Rigid, Hard, Cold

No comfort, not for long stay

No pleasure to behold

Apprehension on faces

Will they make it in time?

Last passengers to board

One more look down the line 

Groups of girls shouting

Midriffs exposed

Flip-flops and sun hats

Already not cold

Fragrances mingling

Shampoo, perfume, smoke

Biscuit on the periphery creating skin of gold 

Children cause obstacles

Randomly paced

Skipping

Jumping

Running

Oblivious to the day 

Hopefully you got the feeling of a busy airport from my poem. Not really sure why it was a poem, I started writing and it  just turned out that way.

Hope you enjoyed it.

PR xx

I'm baaaaack...

It's been a while since i've graced these pages and it hasn't been through lack of things to say, I wouldn't even say it was through a lack of motivation, let's call it laziness shall we, or the constant cloud blocking what could possibly be the silver lining, that is procrastination...

I even flaked on my Project 365 which is a shame as I was actually enjoying writing it and looking back on the days I managed to blog is quite cool.

Anyhoo... This week I signed up to a creative writing course, just because it's something I've wanted to do for a while and found one locally. I've decided to post my completed assignments to 'ze blog' as a way to get back into blogging.

So here's assignment one: Describe yourself in 100 words, including 20 facts. Imagine it to be the blurb at the back of your first novel

"Unique, creative and ever so slightly random, Leah Samuel, Lee, Lilly, Lea Lea or Mackton as she is known to her nearest and dearest is ruled by her constant need to satisfy her sweet tooth, her inability to remember anything and her penchant for purple pens.

Born and bred South of the river, failed personal trainer, procrastinator extraordinaire, accomplished though somewhat erratic designer, friend, daughter and shoe collector would all appear on her resume.

She dances like no-one is watching, is a bookworm that despises the Kindle, can hold a full conversation using 'Friends' quotes and her favourite colour is Teal."

I think that's me in a nutshell... More posts to follow as I progress through the class :-)

PR xx

PurpleRamblings Project 365

Happy New Year!!

I'm late I know, but i've been busy...

I should've written this post 5 days ago when I started my Project 365, but I didn't so sue me... :-p

A friend of mine sold me on the idea. 

She completed her Project 365 for 2011 and throughout the course of this year I have taken great pleasure in following her ups and downs through a series of images, photographs and quotes. 

So decided to give it a go. I started mine on 1st Jan and hope that at least one person will find it as interesting as I found hers.

There is a link to the right handside of this blog or the url if you want to follow is
http://prproject365.blogspot.com/

This blog will continue as it always has being updated as and when I am grabbed by the urge to blog.


PurpleRamblings Project 365 will be updated daily :-)


PR xx