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• Tinseltown

  

  So (don't you just hate when people start sentences, speeches, Saturday Blogs even, with an interjection?) this week's piece is supposed to be all about... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Space

  

  Fasten your seatbelts, gentle readers. We're blasting off for another wacky Saturday blog, looking to achieve escape velocity and set a redoubtable course for... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Space - The Final Frontier

  

  Space is such a fascinating subject and as a generation we are so fortunate that, unlike our forebears, we can look up at the night sky and have some idea what... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rapunzel Complex

  

  Hair and Fur - another theme that did little to inspire my blogging compadres, apparently No matter, I'm going to make this Saturday a 'Grimm Hair Day'. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Magical Creatures

  

  When I think of furry little creatures I go a little bit squishy. I think of the characters that were so beautifully illustrated in the Beatrice Potter stories. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Why Do Bears Sing?

  

  Surely the most pertinent question for the inhabitants of Planet Earth right now and the one most deserving of a straight answer is not strictly to do with... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• For Answers We Need Questions....

  

  As mankind we are forever asking questions. That's how we've evolved, learned and experienced. Our minds are questioning as the norm. Answers are not always... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Question The Answers

  

  "There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe." Friedrich Nietzsche When it comes to finding... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ask The Right Question And You Get The Right Answer

  

  When I perform today's poem I always preface it by saying that when I was a kid there were plenty of protest songs on the radio. Now there are none so I wrote... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Answers - Who Am I?

  

  Over the last few evenings I’ve been searching my ancestry for possible answers. I was able to confirm to another family member that the details he’d passed on... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Weird Little Creations

  

  Dolls - heck, what am I supposed to write about you? I know you can inspire fierce and lasting devotion among humankind but I've never owned one, never played... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dolly

  

  Here we are again. That time of year when I start to notice just how few chunky knits I have in my wardrobe. For someone who grumbles about the "cold night... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Wedding of The Painted Doll

  

  Let me take you back to a time of glamour and social revolution. It is the end of WW1. Many young men have died on the battlefields of Europe: devastating... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Suzy

  

  My first born was a little bundle of soft, pink joy. She had a mass of curly blonde hair, a rather serious face and eyes that refused to close at bedtime despit... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dolls - Meet Janice

  

  My lovely big doll, Janice lives in the attic. Propped up between an old filing cabinet and boxes of Christmas stuff, she manages to stay upright and fix her... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dolls

  

  I was 33 when I acquired my first house. It was built in the 1950’s and in a 1930’s Art Deco style. It had three bedrooms, a bathroom, a drawing room, dining... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Unleafing Stanley Park

  

  In a properly ordered universe I would have been at St. James' Park (home of Exeter City) this afternoon supporting Blackpool in the FA Cup, but this is not a... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Park

  

  So just to confuse everyone. When I moved back to Scotland after a 20 year absence I gradually got used to rehearing phrases long forgotten. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• There’s Something About a Park

  

  Broomfield Park circa 1988 There’s something about a park. When I was very little, the local park captured a tiny corner of my heart without me even knowing. No... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Life Scares Me!

  

  I love life but sometimes it creeps me out, the unknown lurking around the corner. I'm scared of many things but not the conventional sort of scary things that... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION