CWC April 2019 … ⚙️ ☸️ WHEELS ♿️ ⭕️ Winner @123kingarthur

jesi23

Welcome to the Creative Writing Challenge for APRIL 2019 !

The topic chosen this month is WHEELS!

… and the winner, with 11kudos is COMMENTS thread.

(Please note that this is a live link)

The comments thread is where you can ask more questions about the entries, and discuss the writing styles and ask for advice. Basically, anything related to the topic but not in itself an entry!

Everyone is welcome to submit an entry in this thread. Feel free to interpret the theme however you want!

There are no prizes, but the winner will be chosen as usual on the basis of ‘kudos’ received by the end of the month.

Jes

an_droid

Wheel's, you go round and round in my mind, You have no beginning and you have no end, Did we see you or similar to you in nature?, Did we copy what we saw, and called it our own?, Did we see a natural thing roll? What could it have been, a coconut?, a berry?, a short twig? To look back to see the start of you, that would be great, but oh, I forgot again, you have no beginning nor end, So as different manifestations of you roll, spin, and lie where you are, across the world, hiding your secrets as all things do, will we look around again and see something else that we will "invent", Wheely?

123kingarthur

As you get older it is a real problem to do cooking and preparing meals , So I was so pleased to hear that I could get MEALS ON WHEELS. This is a service that is to help the aged and the thought of not having to stand in the sink for half the morning peeling the veg and slicing it up, preparing the sauces to cook it in

and after all this palaver there is then the added 'Fun' of cleaning up the mess afterwards.

It was reasonable easy to ring up the council to start it all up, fill in the papers which arrived a few days later

and then wait with bated breath for the off.

It is a wonderful service and did everything I thought it would. So when I went to visit a friend I was telling her all about it and saying it might be something she should look into.

We had not seen her little 3 year old grandchild sitting under the table listening to our conversation and then she got up and said 'Yes, Yes please do it Grandma' . we were a bit surprised that she was so insistent' and so her Grandma then found it hard not to agree to her demands.

A week or so passed until I saw my friend again and my first question was how are the MEALS ON WHEELS going.

She laughed and said ' they are great , No more cleaning the veg or slicing the chicken and general pain of preparation ' To which I said 'So why the laughing' It seemed that her little granddaughter was not happy at all, because she thought that all the meal would be made on little wheels and then she could push it around the table like a toy car or bus.

themzbiker

WHEELS

Wheels are all around us in our daily lives i mean if you get into your car you use a steering wheel

Your car runs on 4 wheels like all vehicles weither it be for cycling or riding or even driving

if we use public transport our buses run on wheels as do our trains planes & even trams

if we go shopping our shopping trolley runs on wheels it be a real pain to use if it didn't

some of you may pull a shopping bag when you pop to the shops yes it too runs on wheels

when we go hoilday some of our suit cases have wheels makes it easier saves carrying it well we know you ladies take every thing but the kitchen sink

Some sofas also have wheels same as your beds may do also so we can move them about makes easier for cleaning

so if you think about it wheels play a large part in our every day lives

think or imagine what our lives be like if it wasn't for the wheel yes very hard in deed

yvonnearmstrong

Is wagon wheels getting smaller

or is it me getting taller

Short and sweet

Yvonne

standardbearer

@jesi23

I bought a set of wheels she went 0-60 in six seconds.

The problem was when I put my foot down my head wheeled around and around.

In the boot was a portable track cycle bike which was great for doing wheelies.

I SPOKE to a cycle shop owner about a slight buckle in my wheel.He got out his SPOKE key and put it right.

I was so pleased I cart wheeled around the shop and gave him the money.

He was a foreigner and said he was " wheelie wheelie pleased."

I looked out of his window and lo,

there in the distance was a Windmill with wind flaps turning like a wheel.

I dont know all these wheels,

I felt like I was being wheeled in.

AND THATS THATS.

hunterchunk

A never ending circle, no beginning or an end

A remarkable invention that someone did send

It goes round and round over bumps and cracks

The wheel keeps turning whether on or off tracks.

From there we had the workman's cart

This gave the mans day a much easier start

No longer to pull, push and tug his load

He lifts his barrow and pushes down the road

Then came the cart pulled by the horse

Life now for the workman is not as coarse

He sits on the cart and the horse does it all

He just needs to make sure his load doesn't fall.

Later came the railroad engine puffing out its smoke

While the train carries the load the workman has to stoke

He's hot and bothered as he stokes the fire

But life is still easier and he's no longer as tired

We now have cycles, buses and cars

Our days are much better , less tired by far

Whoever the genius was we can't say

But the wheel , the greatest invention so far this day

varun1234

I am round. I roll about a lot. I come in different sizes. You can find me almost everywhere, on toys, bikes, cars, vans and even trucks. I can get you from A to B, without me imagine how life would be

caro120

One minute a happy crowd, around a hundred of us on bikes from london to new forest and looking forward to a weekend of camping and frolics. Wheels turning in synchronicity and harmony, brotherhood, peace and joy.

Then someone rides up back of a cyclist, his wheels buckled and face eroded by the tarmac; horror, shock, move up a gear and take action!

(No mobiles then, just drive to find a phone box and call ambulance).

I always wonder how he got on but proud of my young partner who took charge and got help.

polowoman

WHEELS

It’s hard for us to imagine life without wheels providing convenience, transport and fun toys. However, many civilisations survived very well without this seemingly indispensable asset.

The Ancient Egyptians and those Ancient Britons who built Stonehenge were among the most successful peoples to improvise in the absence of the invented wheel. Naturally, they must had a substitute, as carrying those exceedingly heavy stone blocks, which still stand today, would have been impossible. Experts believe the Stonehenge builders used rollers in the form of tree trunks, and with much manpower, skill and determination transported the huge blocks from Wales to Wiltshire. The stones for the pyramids are believed to have been gathered from near the Nile and taken by barge along the river. However, once on dry land they needed to be moved to their destination, and it is believed that they were secured to sledges, with the sand in front dampened to make them slide along more easily.

Two other famous civilisations which never used the wheel for transportation were the Aztecs and Incas. Both lived in mountainous areas, which presented difficulties for any vehicles. The Incas, based in the Andes, had an extensive road network, measuring about 25,000 miles across their empire, but because of the terrain the wheel would have been useless. Instead they used messengers who ran in relays passing on the important news items from one to another along the route, while others, also on foot, carried goods. These Central and South American cultures had no animals with a physique for pulling carts of heavy loads so the wheel would have been obsolete before being designed. Llamas have long been beasts of burden in the Andean area but their long necks preclude them from being attached to a cart and pulling it safely. Like the Maya and other Mexican civilisations before them, the Aztecs used a stone wheel as a calendar. This was a huge piece of stone carved with symbols, used not only to tell the time but also for had religious purposes, it is believed. They were of the view that time moved in cycles, hence the shape of the calendar.

While the wheel is used in all countries these days, it’s not so long ago that it did not form part of daily life for the entire population of the world. However, humans will always be able to come up with a suitable invention for their environment, passing their skills and knowledge on down the generations, and maybe one day in the future the idea of the wheel will seem out-moded. Who’s to say?

frenchielove

The Wheel of Fortune

The wheel of fortune is a truly wonderful thing, she spins, she chooses our fate, or does she?

There are only two things we know for sure, we are born, we die. In Between I think some things are already predestined for us but some I think we make happen ourselves.

I imagine a pathway coming to a crossroad. Do you go left or right? Which way you choose determines the fate that awaits you. Some things we can change, some things we cannot.

When you find out you are going to lose someone that you love deeply, you can kick and scream, beg, cry, pray, threaten, but at the end of the day, it’s happening.

You can say that the smoker dying of lung cancer should never have smoked, but then some people smoke all their lives with no effect don’t they?

You can say the alcoholic, dying of liver cancer should never have drunk, or the drug addict should never have taken drugs, but we choose what we do to some extent.

Do you ever feel like you are swimming against the tide? No matter how hard you try you cannot move forward? I do.

It is a very difficult subject and sadly, we will probably never know all the answers.

I do know there are lots of roads I should have taken and didn’t and lots I should never have taken.

Yet some people seem to sail through life with very little bad stuff affecting them at all. Is this because of the roads they have chosen, or destiny?

Who knows what’s in store, perhaps as well we don’t, I hope the wheel of fortune spins favourably for you all today, or that you choose the right path to take.

mangoslurp

My son was eager to speak, having quite a few words before he was 18 months. Of course, one had to be his mother to understand what he was saying. He was fascinated by anything that had wheels, which he called 'Woos'. The larger the woos, and the bigger they were, the longer we had to stop on our walk to study them. So a bus or a truck could merit several minutes. The rest of the vehicle didn't get a second look, or perhaps even a first look, let alone a mention. But then he was little more than a couple of feet tall, so those large wheels were at his eye level. Shortly after this, our garden wheelbarrow was forever renamed the 'woomarrow'!

My son's first girlfriend, as a toddler, was Nicola, the sweet little daughter of my friend and neighbour. Well - to be truthful - it wasn't actually Nicola he fell in love with, it was her little plastic sit-and-ride wheeled milk float! His own favourite toy, bought for his 2nd birthday, was a Chubby Car. This was followed over the years by a pedal-propelled tractor with trailer, many small model cars, and a multitude of wheeled Lego creations. Later came Skalextric, indoors, and a succession of bicycles outdoors. At 15, he sold much of the Skalextric and Lego in order to buy his first 1960's motor scooter - the first of six, that is! Then began a succession of cars of all shapes and sizes and many evenings and weekends of teenage friends arriving on their own wheels and long hours spent out in our large garage doing whatever it was they found to do with them........

What is this little wheel-lover doing now he is 50? He works outside at a car rental firm, which involves driving and caring for a range of cars plus pickup trucks and other transport, some with up to 12 wheels. In his spare time, he buys, restores and sells used bikes, and takes long bike rides alone or with his young son. He is also renovating an old VW Beetle, no doubt with special attention to the wheels!

Who would have thought what would happen when this tiny kid first uttered that word 'woos' and only I, as his doting Mum, knew what he meant.

rizqi90

Congratz @kingarthur123 interesting to see such activity and essay

smart_swag55

Is there any creative writing topic for month june? I couldnt get.can anyone give me hand fir this?

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