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• Tissue

  

  Golly heck! (Other random couplings of double expletives are available, by the way.) Tissue as a blog topic has a suggestion of unfortunate timing about it,... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Space Between

  

  It's been another quiet week in the jewel of the north, splendidly sunny for sure, but eerily deserted for the most part. This is social distancing in... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Social Distancing

  

  Just a walk in the park After five great years together We are separated now, Torn apart by invisible force, You in your castle, I in mine. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Social Distancing - Stay Away

  I'm away from home, in my 'happy place' and I can't imagine a better place to be isolated. We travelled before the current restrictions and hope we can get... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Black As Night

  

  Aha! Not, as might have been expected from the title, a blog about our current somewhat gloomy Covid predicament, or the darkest hour being just before the... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Coal - Fossil Fuel

  

  There is something soothing about a coal fire. It isn’t just the warmth, it’s the welcoming glow and the hypnotising darting flames. I remember a few of us goin... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Seashore

  

  These are strange days indeed. I was planning to serve you up a sandy Saturday Blog - and will endeavour to do so still - but the progress of Coronavirus... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Seashore

  

  Virtually every day I go for a stroll alongside the River Ribble or the shore around some part of the Fylde and inevitably gaze at the water or more likely the... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Seashore - Beside the Sea

  

  Isle of Vatersay, Outer Hebrides I was so fortunate, as a child, to have a wonderful sea view from my bedroom window. My father had his wish granted, to run a... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Oops!

  

  Less of an essay this week, you may be relieved to hear. Instead, I offer you brief accounts of acts of stupidity under the given theme plus a poem about... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Oops! Damage

  

  The whole of my adult life seems to have revolved around damage limitation. When you’re married to a man who doesn't know one end of a hammer from the other the... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• How Many More?

  

  Thank you for joining me on another Saturday morning mind-ramble, and not just any Saturday but a once-in-four-years Leap Saturday. I recognise you may not be... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Experts - Zip It Up

  

  Thank goodness for the experts. We really need them sometimes. I mean those proper, professionals that fix things before a drama becomes a crisis, not those... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Love Trees

  

  Oh dear. I was planning to write a blog to go with my poem but the day turned out more busy than I expected at work and then my tablet died and would not charge... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Arboreal - the Stuff of Legends.

  

  The hardest part of moving from my last house in Thornton-Cleveleys was leave behind my wonderful topiary bay tree. I planted it nineteen years earlier,... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Trees

  

  I have never tried to write a poem about a tree, which is a bit sad really. So being at a bit of a loss as to how to start this post I thought I’d have a look a... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Abridged Too Far

  

  In the week when Boris the Mendacious has proposed a bridge across the Irish Sea linking Scotland to Ireland (this from the man who wasted millions when Mayor o... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bridge - From Shropshire to Dublin

  

  On a short visit to Dublin a few years ago, I was fascinated by the Ha’penny Bridge over the River Liffey. It is cute and pretty and looks like something from... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Key

  

  Earlier this week Tony Parkes and his daughter Natalie were interviewed by BBC Northwest/Radio Lancashire in the wake of the announcement that Tony has been... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Unlocking the Secrets

  

  There’s something about a key. It teases us. It’s powerful and it seems to know how much we need it. It unlocks some answers. And keeps others hidden. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION