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• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 7 days ago

  Last century

  The year 2000? Ah, I remember it well! I’d just bought a canal house in Amsterdam and was staying there for New Year with my beau of 5 years. We were sleeping on a mezzanine…

  $15.51

  • Pending payout amount: $15.51
  • Breakdown: 7.75 HBD, 14.68 HP
  • Payout in 17 hours

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• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 14 days ago

  Childsplay

  I’ve always been a frustrated artist. Inside me somewhere is an artistic genius trying to get out. In my dreams I sit poised at an easel, the canvas before me alive with colour…

  $14.11

  • Past Payouts $14.11
  • - Author $7.08
  • - Curators $7.03

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• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 21 days ago

  The great pretender

  I don’t think I could be more likeable. Honestly! I pride myself on my affability and my sunny disposition. As the old saying goes ‘first impressions last’ and I’m always careful…

  $10.61

  • Past Payouts $10.61
  • - Author $5.31
  • - Curators $5.30

   109 22
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 27 days ago

  Jabber.

  I’m a grumpy old woman. Almost everything annoys me. I could write a list as long as War and Peace but in the interests of brevity, and it is the soul of wit after all, I can…

  $10.88

  • Past Payouts $10.88
  • - Author $5.46
  • - Curators $5.43

   239 18
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • last month

  With any luck.

  I have occasionally pondered why some people seem luckier than others, whether luck is something you create or something you're given, and whether I am lucky. Born to alcoholic…

  $14.60

  • Past Payouts $14.60
  • - Author $7.32
  • - Curators $7.28

   204 36
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Homesteading • last month

  One good turn ..

  or, the tragic demise of Chucky McChuck

  $10.60

  • Past Payouts $10.60
  • - Author $5.31
  • - Curators $5.29

   80 23
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 2 months ago

  The new world order.

  There’s either something wrong with the world or something wrong with me, and let me tell you there’s nowt awry with this lady! I am an oasis of rationality in a world of…

  $15.28

  • Past Payouts $15.28
  • - Author $7.66
  • - Curators $7.62

   256 24
• deirdyweirdy (68)in HiveGarden • 2 months ago

  Full and plenty

  I know I know, pride is one of the seven deadly sins, but I must say I’m jolly proud of the results of my gardening endeavours. After the most sunless summer, I can remember…but…

  $9.14

  • Past Payouts $9.14
  • - Author $4.58
  • - Curators $4.56

   106 31
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 2 months ago

  Improving on perfection.

  Nobody’s perfect, but I’m as near as dammit! Now we’re not talking physical perfection here, as at my age, well, what can I tell you? But in all other aspects, I think I can say…

  $24.30

  • Past Payouts $24.30
  • - Author $12.17
  • - Curators $12.13

   275 16
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 2 months ago

  Paradise regained.

  Rules laws and damned regulations; they’re everywhere and all-encompassing. So many laws yet the world is lawless. If I were king I’d scrap ‘em all and replace them with just…

  $12.66

  • Past Payouts $12.66
  • - Author $6.34
  • - Curators $6.31

   352 16
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 3 months ago

  All due respect

  At my age, it’s unlikely that I could persuade anyone to purchase sexual favours from me. Still, should I be so propositioned on a dark night by a blind man with a penchant for…

  $11.35

  • Past Payouts $11.35
  • - Author $5.69
  • - Curators $5.66

   274 24
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 3 months ago

  Camping it up!

  I am not one who likes to rough it. A city gal through and through, I was never one for the great outdoors. I like the bustle and buzz of city life and the convenience of being…

  $18.99

  • Past Payouts $18.99
  • - Author $9.51
  • - Curators $9.48

   292 12
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 3 months ago

  Money matters.

  “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” ― Oscar Wilde I studied a subject called Economics for four years in secondary school. It taught me…

  $9.99

  • Past Payouts $9.99
  • - Author $5.01
  • - Curators $4.98

   243 39
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 4 months ago

  Dead as a doornail.

  My father’s longtime girlfriend died in my arms as I struggled to place an oxygen mask on her face. One minute alive, the next taking her final breath, a sort of wheeze, her body…

  $15.37

  • Past Payouts $15.37
  • - Author $7.71
  • - Curators $7.67

   335 25
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 4 months ago

  Drunk in charge.

  There was a slaughterhouse behind the house on Camden Street where I lived as a child. Perhaps it made some impression on me for I was never much of a meat eater. In my teens…

  $12.53

  • Past Payouts $12.53
  • - Author $6.28
  • - Curators $6.25

   288 34
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Rant, Complain, Talk • 4 months ago

  Wasters!

  “No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.” Socrates…

  $9.05

  • Past Payouts $9.05
  • - Author $4.54
  • - Curators $4.52

   190 12
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 4 months ago

  Second sense

  or, shaft them before they shaft you!

  $16.14

  • Past Payouts $16.14
  • - Author $8.08
  • - Curators $8.05

   357 20
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 5 months ago

  I'll tell you a secret!

  I’m pretty upfront about my opinions on most things. In fact, I could likely give a 30-minute lecture to anyone who’d care to listen on the evils of government, the madness of…

  $9.36

  • Past Payouts $9.36
  • - Author $4.69
  • - Curators $4.67

   218 28
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 5 months ago

  Goodness me.

  I wouldn’t describe myself as a good person exactly, though I did once help a blind person cross the road. I’ve lied and cheated, but only in dealings with authorities…

  $6.59

  • Past Payouts $6.59
  • - Author $3.30
  • - Curators $3.29

   203 26
• deirdyweirdy (68)in Weekend Experiences • 5 months ago

  A perfect fit.

  I was born fast. I walk, talk and think fast, which is just as well given the number of sticky situations I’ve had to talk myself out of. It’s my contention, though I have no…

  $9.41

  • Past Payouts $9.41
  • - Author $4.72
  • - Curators $4.69

   273 20