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Jenny Jones Limerick - Winter Olympics - Published in Daily Mail

2/24/2014

Jenny Jones Celebrates

So Jenny Jones won Britain's first ever medal on snow in a winter Olympics - a bronze for snowboarding.

The news was somewhat overshadowed though by the media's obsession with JJ's age. At 33, she's apparently the oldest ever medal winner at a winter Olympics.

To celebrate JJ's achievement, I wrote the limerick below which, *ahem*, was published in the Daily Mail on February 12th:

Said Jenny, “Third place! What a thrill!
To snowboard in Sochi was brill.
And at age thirty-three,
You’ll have to agree,
I’ve proved I’m not over the hill.”

Below are links to my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment, my most recent Global Short Story Competition winner, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi's, annual short story competition and a story that appeared on the Every Day Fiction site - where you can leave a comment:

http://chaucers-uncle.weebly.com/index.html

http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/assets/october-ebook.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-d-day-diorama-by-paul-a-freeman/#comments

Happy writing!

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J.K. Rowling / Harry Potter Limerick Published

2/8/2014

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Harry Potter Saga

I read in an article recently that JK Rowling is - in hindsight - dissatisfied with the pairing off of Hermione and Ron at the end of the Harry Potter series, and wishes she'd paired Hermione with Harry.

This led to me wondering if JK Rowling was perhaps about to write an 'alternative' ending to the saga, and what other changes she might make - all of which resulted in the limerick below:

Said JK: “You might well have read
that Ron and Miss Granger got wed.
In the re-write I’ll marry
off Granger to Harry,
and maybe I won’t kill off Fred.

Occasionally, when I write such a topical limerick, I send it off to The Daily Mail's 'Peterborough' columnist. Until two days ago, no joy with publication - then, to my amazement, I was sent an email from a lady on the Peterborough column telling me the limerick had been published.

Well, that's my first piece of published work in a national UK newspaper - let's see if I can get some more.

Below are links to my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment, my most recent Global Short Story Competition winner, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi's, annual short story competition and a story that appeared on the Every Day Fiction site - where you can leave a comment:

http://chaucers-uncle.weebly.com/index.html

http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/assets/october-ebook.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-d-day-diorama-by-paul-a-freeman/#comments

Happy writing!

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Jenny Jones Limerick - Winter Olympics - Published in Daily Mail

J.K. Rowling / Harry Potter Limerick Published

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