Fill: Challenge #59 (Orig)

[shivver]

Liza swallowed hard, clutching the bowl to her chest. "Go on," her mum had said, "go over the road and borrow 200 grams of flour. A good way for you to meet the new neighbours." It hadn't sounded difficult, but now, as she stared at the two boys playing tiggy in the garden, she backed against the front door, quaking.


Lots of Britishisms here. We all know "mum", and "over the road" was one of my examples in the challenge. I was going to say "a cup of sugar" but then I remembered that British recipes measure dry ingredients by weight, and it would be in grams, not ounces, and then I realized this meant that she'd be carrying a bowl, not a measuring cup like Americans do, so I had to change that. There's the "u" in "neighbours". "Tiggy" is a British colloquialism for tag. "Garden" is used instead of "yard".

The actual writing was easy - maybe a minute at the most. The research took up the other nine of my ten minutes a day.

Fill: Challenge 58 Original-Lemy'es

[lantairvlea]

( Rothan gets soggy in 427 words )

Also: Rothan icon! I should make more icons...

Fill- Challenge 59 (DW)

[romanajo123]

 (Your example about Sarah Jane's car got me thinking of the Third Doctor and his awesome little car )

"Hand me that spanner, would you Jo?" the Doctor's voice came from under the bonnet of the yellow roadster. 

"This one?" Jo asked, handing him a small green spanner that seemed to be glowing. 

"Perfect" he answered.  

Jo sighed.  They were meant to be on holiday in Dorset, enjoying the coast.  Somehow the holiday had involved actual dinosaurs and the Doctor now needing to repair Bessie's tyres and engine. 

"Are you finished yet, Doctor?" Jo asked, a bit impatiently. 

"Not quite. I believe I might be in need of a torch" the Doctor answered, "It appears one of our small Jurassic friends has made a home in here. " 

(A few things I had to look up- "spanner" meaning a wrench, " bonnet" meaning the hood of a car,  Dorset is a county on the English Channel that's part of the Jurassic Coast and where Mary Anning made a discovery)

Challenge 60

[romanajo123]

 Since this is a holiday weekend (at least in the US) and if shivver doesn't mind if I Borrow this...

Yeah we're doing a WIP Weekend! 

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