If you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be?

Hello everyone or is it Hello my friend If I could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be? Oh dear a loaded prompt so I am going to break this one down a little.

If I could – there is a question in itself IF I COULD that really ends the conversation because I can’t no ifs and buts I cannot. Oh okay I will carry on if you insist.

Bring back one dinosaur 🦕 , gives the impression that I would be time travelling, so I would be bring an animal of prehistoric origin into this time. Creating whatever footprint back then just by being in the time before humans and bringing an extinct species to today. Now this species would have the capability of killing off how much of the worlds animal kingdom by whatever it may be carrying as is the same from this polluted world humans have created could do the same to this Dinosaur 🦕.

Of cause if daily prompt meant by genetic engineering or magic wand bring a dinosaur 🦖 to life, ok it wouldn’t be carrying deadly bacteria from millions of years ago but it’s not going to be Barney the purple dinosaur is it. Dancing and singing and entertaining the children.

Barney Theme Lyrics. Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination
And when he’s tall
He’s what we call a dinosaur sensation

Which one would I choose? Actually none , the dinosaurs were wiped out in some type of extinction event, for once not down to humans. Climate change had a lot to do with it if the latest reading is correct. We don’t know what truly happened but something changed and along this route the world lost an entire not just one species but a whole planet of animals. I guess the survivors in this case were not the big and mighty but the small and more delicate creatures, just my take on this.

So after all my nit picking of the question 🙋‍♀️ my answer is NO I will/would not bring a dinosaur back for all of the above reasons and a few more. Even though the question is hypothetical….

“Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.” Steve Miller

Sending 🦕 Smiles to all on this soggy day in the UK

Ps can someone please tell me who has bought all these 🦖 and other carnivorous dinosaurs back and put them in charge of the UK government (Smile please everyone loves a dinosaur, when they are extinct)

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If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go?

Good precious day beautiful people, I would love the thought of winning plane tickets but as I cannot fly (my arms are not strong enough) anymore due to an AVM on my brain (didn’t even know I had a brain 🧠) something about pressure etc don’t really need the details, just a possibility of oops one way ticket. As that’s what would happen.

SO

I would ask kindly as this is a fictional piece of writing and technically I can ask anything, please can you convert the tickets into a cruise either to as close to Boston as I can get or even a Mediterranean cruise just for one is fine.

The USA because I visited in 2008 and again in 2014 and I got to stop with my wonderful friends who are more like family,just outside Boston. I would have loved to have made it back again but unless fantasy becomes reality I never will.

Then if that’s to far then I would be happy to accept a short Mediterranean cruise in the warmth as the UK is so unpredictable I am sure my feet are becoming webbed due to all the rain. A plus to cruising would be lazing around on a ship eating and drinking, sleeping and just being at peace, would be so amazing .

See I can Dream, Dream, Dream about anything especially if it means I get to go where my heart is happy. So Ms Daily Prompt you may set the questions to make us think and write, but our job is to twist and turn and manipulate those questions into something that we wish to answer.

Wishing you all a day filled with Smiles, don’t forget to share a smile the most wonderful gift to share

What’s the story behind your nickname?

My nickname was at first something that made me pout, stamp my feet and turnabout, walk out the room with a backwards shout, I AM NOT A COW, DADDY.

Growing up I really disliked my nickname, why did dad have to go and pick that name, my younger sisters was nicer, the more people got to hear the name and the reason behind it, the more I was called it.

As an adult I still disliked it until my step dad passed away the end of 2022. I craved to hear him call me this name because I realised at last it was a term of endearment. That all those years I took it as an insult it wasn’t it’s strange how nicknames can make you feel. Mine has taken me over 50yrs to finally accept when it’s too late.

Oh what was it? Well I grew up on a farm and for the cattle in the yard Dad always had flower names for them one day he called my sister Daisy and me Blossom. we squealed because that’s the cows names.

So Blossom I was and in memory of an amazing man Blossom I shall remain

Keep Smiling ☺️

What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?

Oh Ms Daily Prompt, here comes uproar to the nice community that has thus far been acquired.

Sit down. Belts and Harnesses on. Phones, glasses and false teeth into a zipped pocket. Because here I come.

So what strategies do I use to maintain my health and wellbeing, this will not work for everyone but for me at this moment in my life it is perfect.

My health and wellbeing has been severely impacted by domestic violence and I am now left with mobility issue’s needing a wheelchair and crutches, battled several bleeds on the brain and well not going to bore the pants off you(typical English saying meaning bore you senseless). Also I have tried ending my life this year so as I said complex issues for which I have a complex plan

The Plan, I eat what I fancy trying to get as many fruits and vegetables in as I can. But not forgetting the cake and chocolate, an essential part of my well-being.

I meditate but no longer do distance running nor power walking , actually I barely walk, but meditation helps with anger and pain , resentment and fear, sarcasm and creates inner peace, also whilst meditating I am not eating cake which I guess is a boost and not to the waistline. Which I hasten to add I lost that many years ago probably between my 5 and 6 child.

I try to walk on the bright side of life but that is difficult as my crutches slip so I now on wheel on sunshine instead .

So because my life is so topsy turvy and definitely not an easy fix. Maintaining my health and wellbeing is difficult but achieved with my own brand of Humour

Sending Smiles to all. Start the Day With a Smile 😊 and the world becomes a Brighter Place

What are your future travel plans?

Hello 👋 how are you today, so lovely to see you here. So random daily prompt, what are my future travel plans? Yes this is a delicate planning episode so listen carefully.

I plan to start in my bedroom packing just my phone and glasses and whatever book I am reading plus a cardigan just incase the weather turns a little chill. The first leg of the journey has a stop off at the bathroom for a freshening wash and teeth scrub . Then on the journey goes via chair lift. Nice scenery all photographs of children (mine). Arriving at Stair-Bottom named because I believe it’s the bottom of the stairs..

Now depending on my travel arrangements I either travel to seat of mine in Sitting Room or a tour of the area that some call a Kitchen.

I do these excursions on such a regular occurrence that it almost becomes mundane so why continue to do it you may wonder.

Well I asked my banking app could I travel further for maybe coffee and a cake – the app said NO

I asked my purse if we could save a little each month just to go to the seaside; oh when I opened the purse there was a black hole 🕳️ a chasm of swirling nothingness swiftly snapping the purse shut, I thought that’s a NO then.

So I sit here and pass my time by making new routes each day start with my left foot one day rotate to the right the next.

Hope that has helped the rest of you that have no way of affording a break my last was 2014 and my next will be at this rate never but that’s life. I am still a disabled diva 👩‍🎤 with a smile that I like to share

Who knows what’s around the corner as long as it’s not a bus I will be fine 😎😂😂

What would you change about modern society?

Hello one and all, and can I say you are all looking dam fine today,

What would I change about modern society, oh my goodness are you having a laugh with this question? Well give me a month to write about everything I would change and I would have only just have scratched the surface.

Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world – don’t get me started. But don’t you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that ‘choice’ used to mean something different from selecting options from menus? Lynne Truss

If like me and I am in my late 50’s, you grew up hearing, when I were young we didn’t have this, or that, we walked everywhere, then my generation add in we played outside not sat indoors on games etc. I would like to change that, take us back to a less stressful time for children and teenagers. I expect to be argued with over this but I have thought a lot about this.

My own children stayed in and played on games machines and mobile phones and PCs more than I probably liked , I took them out on picnics and they had a good sized garden to camp out in, but one thing had changed since I was a child, I don’t know if it was the reporting on a newly emerging social media, the newspapers or an actual increase of child predators but it was and is not safe to allow your children to play out like when I was a child. Not just for that reason but we have the increase of drug use, crime and whereas before the traffic was far less than today. Education system is totally screwed up, if you are not academically clever they almost right you off now. Back some years ago if you were not so good academically then you had day release into a job sector that suited the abilities they had. So that is my first point I would change the rate our children have to grow up and the pressures and demands placed on them. They are only young once let them enjoy it, we did.

On a world scale war, famine, starvation, pain, which if we break down sensibly war is by far the most damaging and impacts on the planet, famine and pain. So I am only going to choose this one WAR

War; humans have fought and lost wars, battles, skirmishes even arguments since time began, I think it a part of the DNA of humans, an unconscious need to take what belongs to another, to be superior, to be in charge. Politicians definitely have this in bucket loads 🙊. Now within modern society it has become literally one country pushing a button against another and a second country and goodbye world 🌎 as we know it. That is something I would love to change the ability to manufacture weapons to zero. Arguing zero. We all know we need a ruling authority but not power hungry narcissists that lie to fill their own pockets

My friends it must be boring reading other other people’s thoughts and ideas for a better world. Just never forget that although we cannot just snap our fingers and life changes. There is always the power of positive thought and action . One last thing, you have the power within yourself to change one thing in this modern world for the better

YOURSELF

My first change is to send you a smile 😃

What do you listen to while you work?

Peace perfect peace is all I require so my mind can form the next sentence as I write, record a poem or podcast, sometimes to just think. Then when I have done as much as I can do, I just want a little more peace to unwind.

Then again if it’s art or craft, I quite like a little bit of background noise and depending on what I am making dictates the music 🎶for example; ole country music with Johnny Cash, sometimes Strauss it just affects the painting/drawing

Music is fantastic for me as it calms but I like to listen to mine feet up eyes closed as listening to every word

When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.” – Frank Oceannuu yet yyyyyyt try g

What foods would you like to make?

Hello, yes of course I am going to have a chat with you about food. I mean the prompt says what foods would you like to make? I read and digested this several times and thought that has left the field wide open for interpretation, let’s have some fun , I took it as my favourite things I have made. What I would like to try cooking and in my mind but I doubt I would ever get it done(pipe-dream)

People who love to eat are always the best people. ..

What foods would you like to make? As in what did I like to make …

I loved cooking a traditional English style Roast Beef Dinner with Yorkshire puddings and lots of vegetables, just like I used to when my children were younger. Before I became disabled and could cope in the kitchen . Also baking I loved baking. I could turn my hand to most recipes and loved hosting dinner parties, I would plan, prepare and present and alway be poised . I have catered weddings , parties and birthdays, christenings. There are so many occasion I have catered alone or one other helper and loved every second

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.” – Anthony Bourdain

What foods would you like to make? As in given a chance what would you like to make ?

I would like to try cooking Jamaican food as I never had much of a chance , was lucky enough to have known Desmond Decker as a kid and watched him cook some traditional food (just before one of his songs hit the big time) it has stuck with me all my life the flavour the smells. It tastes of possibilities, you can smell the rising sun and feel the music 🎶 in every mouthful. That is why I would love to cook or learn to cook more Jamaican food.

“I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.” – Erma Bombeck

What foods would you like to make? As in forget restrictions and all things are possible what would you like to create food wise?

.I think I would like to invent recipes and write a cookery book, I have a load that I wrote down from years ago but crazy cakes and puddings would be my niche. Plus healthy tasty salads with very few rabbit leaves in. Also food that is affordable and feeds families and couple alike , yes and singles (it works out cheaper to cook for two and saves cooking two nights running). I can’t stand rabbit food and the word diet sends this triple bellied hippo into shock. But just by changing a few ingredients and eating sensibly wow this time next year I will be a double bellied hippo instead of triple bellied one.

Now my coffee is cold so I think a fresh cup is in order. So till we meet again keep Smiling ☺️ thank you to those that have read this far you are amazing 🤩😎🤩😎

Dogs or cats?

I do like animals, over the course of many years we had many different pets come and depart our home. My eldest daughter is now 36 and youngest very nearly 22 yrs old as I write this. We have had cats and dogs, rabbits, Guinea Pigs and hamsters, gerbils, finches, canaries and fish both tropical and cold water up to 6 tanks at a time. So when I say I have experience of pets I have.

I grew up on a farm, animals had a purpose, dogs were working animals. Cats were to keep the mice and rats at bay, and in our home pets were something never thought about because there was always a baby of some description on the farm.

Where am I going with this ?

I am a disabled 57yr old women who likes, please note likes not loves Cats and dogs, but;for cats

1. The fur gets everywhere and I can’t cope with it

2. Feeding time, can’t stand animals on food surfaces but cats go where they like, and don’t wash their paws

3. The struggle to feed myself is bad enough to feed a cat who can be fussy would be so annoying and painful with bending and picking up dishes etc, plus expensive.

4. Cat mess nope nope nope nope

Now dogs

1. The fur gets everywhere and I can’t cope with it

2. Feeding time, can’t stand animals who walk in all the dirt and faeces and they don’t wash their paws

3. The struggle to feed myself is bad enough to feed a dog who is messy would be so annoying and painful with bending and picking up dishes etc, plus expensive.

4. Dog mess nope nope nope nope

So; which is it

I struggle to look after myself so I am not a dog or cat person. I don’t need an animal for company or a man come to that. My company is found in the pages of books also an animal will take what little energy and resources I have if it suits you that’s wonderful but me peace is all I need

Sending Smiles

Which activities make you lose track of time?

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.”— Rabindranath Tagore

I start reading a book and I can’t believe it, if the book is good, fictional or fact, it immerses me as if I have entered into the book and when I next look up wow 3,4, even 5 hours have passed but I have no idea where that time has gone. I have not drunk eaten or heard my phone, my dog as ever is asleep. I have just lost track of time

I can start writing or drawing and lose myself , I am either in the story I am writing, carefully plotting the next move or in the true story ones noting details as things flash back to me. If I am drawing my mind is just on colours or maybe charcoal. Decisions of what I want to draw or paint, normally it’s just colours kind of free flow, I know I can draw I just like to play with colour and ohhh the afternoon has gone in the blink of an eye. I have lost all track of time

Of course there are other ways, sat talking to my bestie, playing a game on my phone, having a look on social media all good ways of losing all track of time

Oh my friends my favourite way to lose all track of time is to sit in my chair and put my head back, gently closing my eyes and letting my mind wander. Oh wow it travels miles to countries all over the globe then back to the UK to once again revisit villages last seen as a child. I have been to space, visited galaxies that we could not cross, met beings and had food with them. Then suddenly found myself sat watching as knights of old jousted in tournaments, visited talking animals who acted with human characteristics , castles in the sky. All in daydreams that I have woken from and realised 3 hours had passed and I had day-dreamt my way past a mealtime. But what a wonderful way to lose track of time.

It’s night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? .. Dr Seuss