This week – the prompt is S is for Stand (or stood).
So, you can stand as in literally ‘rise to’ or ‘be on’ your feet. It’s also a way of saying someone’s height – Journeyman Tom stands 6’ 7”.
Your hair stands on end.
It can mean ‘to place something’: on the top table stood a massive ice sculpture; my old school stood on the site of the new supermarket.
You can stand in for someone, or you can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with someone.
You can take the stand in court, or take a stand against something. You can stand firm, or stand guard, stand clear, stand out, stand still. Where do you stand on the matter of homelessness? Stand and deliver! A varied education will stand you in good stead.
You always knew where you stood with her.
In the context of winning and losing: if it went wrong, he stood to lose thousands. But he won, and stood us a round of drinks.
You can stand for election or stand trial – sometimes both!
Come to a standstill.
A stand of trees. Standing water. A cake stand. A mike stand. A lemonade stand.
There’s the sense as in dislike – oh, I can’t stand him.
Plenty to go at. So, it’s the usual stuff – who, what, where, when, how and why?
Let’s hear your stories, poems, pieces of descriptive writing – don’t forget it doesn’t have to be the complete story – prompted by the word ‘stand’. But it is only a prompt. If you’ve got something else that you’re burning to write about, then write about that.
Send them to louise.hulland@bbc.co.uk and we’ll review them when we next meet on the radio.