To Do Today:

7am: breakfast: honey-nut cake with marmalade, oatmeal and raspberry jam
8am: go to Merry’s
9am second breakfast at Merry’s: seed cakes and cheese, apple-tart and eggs
10am: go to Farmer Maggot’s place with Merry
11am elevenses: mushrooms and bacon (thank-you, Mrs Maggot)
12pm: travel with Merry to Stock
1pm: lunch at Golden Perch: pork pie and salad with A PINT!
2pm: go to Fatty Bolger’s with Merry
3pm: afternoon tea with Fatty: cold chicken and pickles, corn-cake and honey
4pm: travel with Merry to Bag End
6pm: dinner with Frodo: toasted mutton & roast potatoes
8pm: home to Tuckbourough
9pm: supper: bread and butter, tomatoes and cheese and jams and sausages

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NaPoWriMo 
Day Nine

The Prompt:  Write a poem in the form of a “to-do list.” The fun of this prompt is to make it the “to-do list” of an unusual person or character.

Favourite all-time character: Peregrin Took (a.k.a. Pippin, Thain of the Shire I, Ernil I Pheriannath, and “Fool-of-a-Took” ).

Pere(grin) Took

Today (indeed, most days) I am a Took.
Ramble and bamble, I recklessly roar
through cavernous quiet, serious score,
swallowed by Willow who grows by a brook.

Today (in fact, always) I am a Took.
Bumble and stumble, throw pearls before swine,
bellow at fellows about when to dine
“borrow” the palantir to have a good look.

Today I am a Took (if truth be told).
I poke and I prod and try to disguise.
I query and question and challenge the wise.
My lack of forethought is thought to be bold.

Despite all the blunders, the Almighty still
uses my errors to accomplish His will

 

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NaPoWriMo — Day Twenty-Three: Write  a sonnet.

What can I say?  I am reading LOTR again.
I really identify with Pip.  He is impulsive and rash, but good-hearted.
I am eternally grateful for grace (which redeems even us Pippins!).