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• Missing - Is It The Borrowers?

  

  One of the highlights of my week is the afternoon I spend as a volunteer in the Key Stage 1 library at my local primary school. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Missing: Pets Lost And Found

  

  Much loved pets go missing every day. Some are lost forever, whilst others are incredibly found days, weeks, months or even years later. Here is a mixed bag of... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Masked Singer

  

  It's been a tough few weeks for brother and sister bird. Days of snow and freezing temperatures followed by storm after wet and windy storm are not conducive... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Birdsong

  

  always stops me in my tracks. I will take time to listen, wonder and very often video , just the sound. For birdsong is a dwindling sound , I find these days. M... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Birdsong

  

  Anyone who knows me well, will also know how much I love my visiting birds. I have a robin who has almost become a pet this winter. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Birdsong

  

  is a novel by Sebastian Faulks first published by Hutchinson in 1993. It begins in 1910 by introducing Stephen Wraysford. He is a young Englishman on... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sing Something Simple

  

  I love birdsong. For me it’s one of the most relaxing and evocative sounds, so many memories associated with it. I’m not sure that the screeching of seagulls... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Radio Four

  

  It seemed an appropriate title for this Saturday's blog (given that there have been three other radio blogs earlier in the week). Actually I don't often listen... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' February Open Mic Night

  

  Love and snow are in the air...I hope you might join us.Steve ;-) Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Radio

  

  The pictures are better on the radio. That was the first sentence of a blog I wrote back in November 2021 on the topic of ‘Listening’ and that article more or... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Radio - Solid State Binatone

  

  As a young child I was a little housewife. Wearing an apron to keep my dress clean, I played with the toy sink unit that I could have real water in to wash my... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Magic Box

  

  The radio has been the soundtrack to my life for as long as I can remember. We weren’t really a TV kind of family - dad had returned home with one when I was... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Housework Ha Ha Ha!

  

  Housework! Who doesn't do as little as they have to, as infrequently as possible? Surely I'm not alone in this. Of course, living on one's own does allow a... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Housework

  

  ‘I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again’.That wasn’t me but quite a well known quote by... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Housework - Squeaky Clean, Not Quite

  

  Housework, that never-ending project that always starts with good intentions, but there are so many distractions and a complete lack of interest. That’s just me... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Saw Three Ships...

  

  ...come sailing in. And in case you think I've missed the boat with that one, let me tell you it's Christmas Eve today in Greece. You read that correctly. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' January Open Mic Night

  

  Our first virtual open mic night of 2024...Steve ;-) Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Light In Our Darkness

  

  It’s just after 7 pm on a December evening and I’ve sat down to start this article. I’ve switched on this room’s light, my desk top lamp and left on the light i... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Light in the Darkness - Shine, Jesus, Shine

  

  I was born into a Christian family. It was a mix of Catholic and Protestant and some had a stronger faith than others. I was baptised in a Church of England... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Napery & Japery

  

  Of all the unlikely topics we've been challenged to blog about, napkins must be right up there! At least I suppose it's somewhat seasonal, with all the... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION