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• Dust Jackets

  

  It’s one of those memories from school age that I’m fairly sure happened but not totally. The memory I have is of school books taken home at the beginning of th... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dust - If You Must

  

  Dust if you Must by Rose Milligan Next Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better To paint a picture, or write a letter, Bake a cake, or plant a seed; Ponder... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' May Open Mic Night

  

  Calling all cool cats and kitties, (to steal a line from the late Lord Buckley), get on down with our majestical May Day open mc night on Zoom...... there's no... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bedazzled By Sunflowers

  

  I blame the Calendar Girls myself. In fact I very nearly wrote this blog a couple of Saturdays ago for the Calendars theme, but put it aside in favour of a... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bedazzled

  

  My first thought, perhaps bashfully, is of the image of Liz Hurley as the naughty devil in the largely panned, but playful 2000 film Bedazzled, alongside Brenda... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bedazzled

  

  I wasn’t quite sure of the difference between ‘dazzled’ and ‘bedazzled’ so I had a google. I think this shows it:Christophe Dugarry gave a dazzling performance... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Favourite Poet

  

  Of course there are many, but in strict adherence to the brief, I'll make an 'of the moment' choice. The poet I've been reading most often in the last few month... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Favourite Poet (or Two)

  

  The problem in choosing one poet from the legions that have had an influence over a lifetime is the feeling that there are ghosts gathering in the room,... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Favourite Poet

  

  Right away, I’m struggling with the brief. Perusing the collections in my bookcase I can possibly narrow it down to five. Robert Lowell, Philip Larkin, Sharon... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Favourite Poet

  

  On the road next to Preston Station and about eight minutes from my house is a blue plaque to the poet who was born there on the 6th January 1874 and was... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Favourite Poet - Too Many to Mention

  

  Poetry books are in abundance on my book shelves and bedside table. I love poetry. I love words, artistically shaped into meaningful phrases. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Calendars

  

  Calendar derives from calends, the Latin name for the first day of the Roman month, signifying the start of a new lunar phase. Logically. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dull Calendars

  

  Guess who was born in Small Heath, Birmingham, about seventy years ago and grew up having a passion for football and history and is now known as the Dullest... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Calendars - It's A Date

  

  “Thirty days hath September,April, June and November.February has twenty-eight alone,All the rest have thirty-one,Excepting leap year, that’s the timeWhen... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thick & Thin

  

  I was ten when I finally admitted that I couldn't see properly. I suppose it happened so gradually that I was able to deny there was a problem for quite some... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' April Open Mic Night

  

  Tonight, poeticals, our monthly open mic might - via ye olde zoom. Still a few places available. Let me know if you'd like a slot to read or just listen in. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Colour Fades

  

  Even the sun was partially eclipsed today, draining colour from the morning sky. But that same sun has been steadfastly bleaching pictures on my walls and the... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thick and Thin

  

  I’ve just been sharpening a new pencil I’d picked up from my kitchen drawer to replace the stub of my last one. But it has no marking on it and when I wrote... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Colour

  

  What’s the most popular colour in the world? I’ll come to that in a minute but I can reveal now that it is not a beigey sort of brown. No, that’s just mine. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Colour

  

  How dull life looked in monochrome. My old photographs are all black and white, including my christening. I expect my family heirloom gown was white, but I’ve n... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION