Caddoc heard mud baths were good for the skin and wondered how he might persuade Ada in to sample the benefits, though she'd get mucky.
I thought she'd say,
But Caddoc was tired of her protestations...
"I'm determined to remedy this situation. I’ll sully that image that's whiter than white, at least in her own eyes. I will give her a fright! I'll make a mud bath but top it with bubbles - cleaning them up will be least of my troubles… Ada already makes me feel more than a tad useless and hopeless. It’s time I got mad!”
But when Ada lay daintily down in the bath She was a LONG way from having a laugh.
“Help! What has happened? Someone get me out!”Came the heartrending sound of her piquant shout.
“Trell to the rescue!” yelled I. Then with haste I hauled mudcaked Ada, now very red faced, onto the bathmat, trying not to stare as dollops of mud trickled down from her hair.
Then I gave her a blow dry, body and all and the mud formed a solid shell, waiting to fall, just like a plaster cast. That’s when I retired, and left her to Caddoc. He was inspired. He baked her mud-mould and created ‘art’which he hung in the lobby. And that was the start of another new hobby for Mister C.T., the frustrated artist of this family!
This fol-de-rol was inspired by Tess Kinkaid's Magpie Tales #104, where you will find many more offerings.
oh my- it's amazin' how you thought of this!
ReplyDeleteWhat an imagination! Thoroughly entertaining stuff ...
ReplyDeleteha...now that is art...smiles.
ReplyDeleteThis is truly fun!
ReplyDeleteThis is too funny...and to get your story from that picture prompt...it is amazing the different things people see in a single photograph
ReplyDeleteLove your response to this weeks prompt - very clever
ReplyDeleteVery original :o)
ReplyDeletenow i want a mud bath
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How on earth you manage to carry Ada and Cad from the prompts each week is beyond me! Pure genius!
ReplyDeleteI go into a sort of trance OR I just call Cad and Ada and ask them what they've been up to.
DeleteHilarious Cad! I like your style. A brilliant twist from the rest!
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It's nice to get a lighthearted take on a disturbing image. And I love what you did with the image.
ReplyDeleteA nice slide around a challenging image.
ReplyDeleteA mud slide, madam? :)
DeleteThis is where I have to admit - the mud bath did wonders for my skin, if not my temper. (Not to mention my relationship with Mad Cad, the bane of my life...!!!)
ReplyDeleteHow on earth do I put up with you, Caddoc?
If ever the pot called the kettle grimy-arse!
DeleteCome, come people - no more mud slinging, please! Let's all shake hands and call it quits...
DeleteVery clever, especially the mud cast. In high school, I actually made a plaster cast of my body as part of a modern art experiment. The teacher needed a guinea pig! K.
ReplyDeleteAt least he made art and not dinner!
ReplyDeleteIf it were me he'd done that to, Cad would've gotten a few mud pies in the face!
ReplyDeleteI adore your profile pic! And this blog!
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You asked, in a round about way, what link my post had to the photo prompt...The whole time I looked at tess's prompt, that woman in a sea of men, all I could think of was zombie Robots....I know STrANGE but what am I to do?? thanks for coming by!
ReplyDeleteAh, the adventures - and she is memorialized in mud... ha ha. What more could a woman want?
ReplyDeleteI love your adventures in mud... "Mud, mud glorious mud, nothing quite like it for soothing the blood." =D Thank you for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteGiggle...loved this...
ReplyDeleteDear Trellisimo: Caddock to the rescue...again...and good thing he found something artistically constructive to do with the leftovers from Ada's mucking-about. I can see the look on Ada's face now; and it's cracking me up~!Thanks for the laughs T~!!!
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