This week – the prompt is R is for Rest.
There’s rest as in repose or taking a break from something – having a rest.
There’s rest as in to put something down for a short while – rest your hand on someone’s shoulder… or rest a burden or a piece of work on something… or using something as a means of support, such as a rest as in snooker, a rod-rest in fishing, a headrest, footrest, armrest.
There’s stopping of movement, as in ‘it came to rest’.
Silence in music is denoted by a rest.
There’s no rest for the wicked. Oh, give it a rest, will you?
Eternal rest, laid to rest, put someone’s mind at rest.
It could be a place to stay – as in the names of pubs such as The Traveller’s Rest.
You rest a joint of meat after roasting to let the internal juices redistribute and keep the meat tender.
Or you could go with the absence of rest, as in restless, whether it’s restless legs or a restless spirit…
And then there’s the meaning as in the remainder of something, e.g. the rest of the crowd soon dispersed.
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 ‘question’. 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.