Inspiration point (IP)
Today is the 100th birthday of naturalist Sir David Attenborough, himself a wonder of nature and one of our very, very few genuine national treasures. So this week, please write about an animal (or many animals, if you prefer!) Animals you love, or hate, or that give you the horrors, or that you once fleetingly glimpsed in passing. I look forward to seeing the results!
Inspiration point
The ‘Miracle Fruit’* …
… contains ‘miraculin’, surprising molecule that binds to the sweet-detecting taste buds on the tongue, changing them so that for a while sour things...
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The secret touch!
Tomatoes are her kryptonite!
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The Chinese Kumquat
Inspiration point: fruit - (Edited and retitled.)
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Watch
What she loved was the watch. Well, there were many things that she loved in that old workshop, out the back of the shop where it was musty and dusty...
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Camp.
As with some things, in time word changes, or the meaning changes. I have always known this word camp. It was a drink that has always been in our...
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