Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle here with you and this segment of art posts covers all sorts of different mediums of art, from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
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The previous day, Jake’s platoon had boarded a train heading for an unknown US port. The first men of his battalion to be leaving for “somewhere over there.” Many were puffed up with pride and loud with raucous enthusiasm.
“Where we headed, Sarge?” Beau accosted him as he entered the carriage.
“I can’t tell you. Secrecy about troop movements must be maintained because of the threat of the Bosch submarines,” Sarge growled.
Scowling, Beau opened his mouth to argue with Sarge. He snapped it closed when Will laid a hand on his arm and shook his head in warning.
Sarge’s orders must be accepted without comment. It was not the place of the troops to question their superior officers or their orders.
Late in the afternoon, the train drew into the station in New York.
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Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle here with you today with the first post in my new Photography section on LatinosUSA – English Edition.
The Photography Section will comprise a weekly photography post with a weekly theme as follows:
First week of the month – Animals
Second week of the month – People
Third week of the month – Nature
Fourth week of the month – Buildings and Architecture.
If there is a fifth week, we will have a jackpot photography post.
I would love all the photographers out there to contribute to this section. If you have a photograph to share in one of these categories, please email me at cheadlerobbie@gmail.com and use the title Photography – [specific theme]. Please also include a short write up about your photograph.
My thanks to poet and author, Lauren Scott, for her lovely contribution to this photography segment. This is a link to one of Lauren’s delightful blog posts: https://baydreamerwrites.com/2025/11/11/perspective-of-a-yamaha-guitar/. Do visit and view all her beautiful books and poems.
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Hi everyone, its Robbie Cheadle here with my first post in a new series called Simple Pleasures: Reading & Eating. This series comprises a book review combined with a recipe which could be anything from a cocktail to a dessert.
The book I am reviewing for this first post is Size Always Matters: Don’t be part of a statistic, start losing weight today by Sally Cronin.
This is a fabulous and informative book to help everyone eat better and be more aware of the nutritional value of what we put in our mouths. I am not overweight, and I never have been, in fact, I struggle with losing too much weight through stress and anxiety. The information in this book is just as useful for someone like me who can also use guidance on better eating to help reduce my specific health issues. This book is packed with factual information on the impact of a huge variety of vitamins and minerals on the human body and deals with every aspect of health. The author also points out that part of her eating disorder was anxiety and stress related so it actually does go both ways depending on your personality type.
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Hi everyone, its Robbie Cheadle with you today with my first post in my new Street and Other Public Art section here on LatinosUSA – English Edition.
My first post features a wonderful Tintin and Captain Haddock street art that I saw in Brussels earlier this year.
Let’s start at the bottom and work our way upwards:
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Thank you to Nolcha Fox, editor of Chewers by Masticadores for sharing the next episode in The Soldier and the Radium Girl.
27 August 1917
Jake’s battalion had been stationed at the mobilization point of Camp Bartlett in Westfield, Massachusetts for eight days.
The men quickly discovered there was little difference between life at Camp Keyes and life at Camp Bartlett, despite being one step closer to their destination of France. They were housed in tents, and there was a wide-open parade and drill ground where they continued to be trained in the art of trench warfare.
The one notable difference was that visiting French officers, who’d been at the Western Front, directed some of their training.
“That Capitaine Moreau is always on my back about something: salute, eyes to the front, present arms. And there is inspection after inspection. I had no idea our training would be like this. It’s such a waste of time,” Beau exploded one evening.
“They are trying to instill discipline and ensure we keep our uniform and equipment in good order, Beau,” Joe said.
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Do you like to photograph people? This is a place to showcase your photographs of people on LatinosUSA. Come over and take a peek.
Melissa’s prompt is to write about a pivotal moment. I have [tried] to make my poem humorous. You can join in here: https://dversepoets.com/2025/11/11/pivot/
Lefty’s
been a freeloader
all its life
ever since
Sister Ruth
hit my left-hand knuckles
with a ruler
aimed at redirecting
the Devil’s hand
“We write with the right”
her fierce declaration
from then on
righty did all the work
except for knifework
I never could cut with the right
left retained cutting
it’s one claim to usefulness
and then, righty got injured
an overuse pain
developed and stayed
So, I, the determined
took lefty out of retirement
“No, more loafing”
I said sternly
“It’s time to earn your keep
in this body”
Now, lefty is the mouse hand
takes its share of the work
and the overuse pain
leaving righty free
to do the drawing
and the painting
on demand
This poem is for Don’t Hold Your Breath’s Bird of the Week challenge: https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/himalayan-swiftlet-birds-of-the-week-invitation-cxli/
South Africa is home to two species of flamingos: the Lesser and Greater Flamingo. The key breeding site for Lesser Flamingos at Kamfers Dam in Kimberley has been destroyed due to poor infrastructure management by local government. The dam has become toxic, and the flamingo population has been forced to leave, leaving this species near threatened in South Africa. Greater flamingos shared the Kamfers Dam habitat with the Lesser Flamingos but in far fewer numbers. The Greater Flamingo in South Africa is also listed as Near Threatened regionally due to habitat loss from pollution, encroachment and disturbances at breeding sites.
morning
two young flamingos
greet the day
brief respite
before survival dictates
ongoing foraging
Dan’s CFFC challenge is Churches so I’ve combined it with my second Thursday Doors post about Westminster Abbey in London.
You can join in CFFC here: https://nofacilities.com/2025/11/10/churches-cffc/
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Patrick Brontë, born Brunty, was the oldest of ten children born to Hugh Brunty, a farm labourer, and Alice McClory. He grew up in the small village of Drumballyroney in Country Down, Northern Ireland. At the age of twelve, Patrick was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and the to a linen draper and a weaver until he became a teacher in 1798. In 1802, he was given an opportunity to study theology at St John’s College, Cambridge, from where he received his degree in 1806. He was appointed curate at Wethersfield in Essex, where he was ordained a deacon of the Church of England in 1806 and into the priesthood in 1807.
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