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• Twilight - North and South

  

  "Twilight - The soft glowing light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, caused by the reflection of the sun's rays from the atmosphere."We enjoyed a... Read more

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

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' November Open Mic Night

  

  Our next virtual open mic night....Hope some of you can join us.Steve :-) Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Showtime

  

  I've been listening again recently to Jason Isbell's excellent 'Southeastern' album during my gym sessions. There's a couplet in the song "Different Days" that... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Showtime: A Filmgoer's Diary

  

  I have no idea how The Filmgoer's Diary (D. Harper Co. Ltd, London) for 1956 came into my collection. It is one of a copious number of objects and ephemera... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Glittering Prize?

  

  At the best of times, tension between Israelis and Palestinians has been a festering wound in the Middle East. Recently that wound has flared up again in the... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Glittering Prize

  

  I was a competitive modern ballroom and Latin American dancer from the tender age of 10. My partner David and I spent many hours practising the routines we... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Glittering Prize - Meaningful Things

  

  I have some works of art in my house. Some are on display, others are stored for safe keeping. They are items made by my children and grandchildren, presented t... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Canals Of Mars

  

  Faced with a familiar problem, having written both blogs and poems about canals before, I figured my only recourse this week was to seek inspiration from the re... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Canals - Boatmen, Old and New

  

  Working on my family tree by searching online ancestry sites is something I’ve been doing for a long time. I enjoy dipping in and out and finding new... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Terraces

  

  I've forgone a trip down to London to the football terraces of Charlton Athletic (cheering on the Seasiders) so I can fulfil my Saturday blogging obligation, bu... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Terrace

  

  The word terrace has its origins in the 12th Century Old French word terrasse meaning platform built on or supported by a mound of earth. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Adolescent Nell

  

  I watched a programme about the history of Covent Garden and also listened to a BBC history podcast earlier this year about the life of Nell Gwyn, who lived... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Adolescence: An Apology

  

  When I think of the years of my adolescence I feel neither nostalgia or sentimentality. There were some good times and not so good times. There were lovers and... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Adolescence

  

  I asked a few friends what they thought the ages of Adolescence (from Latin adolescere 'to mature') are and got different ranges of age. Even scholars have... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Adolescence - That Difficult Age

  

  A definition –‘Adolescence is the phase of life between childhood and adulthood, from ages 10 to 19. It is a unique stage of human development and an important... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gate

  

  Is there any finer way to spend a September day than sitting on a sandy Greek beach beneath cloudless skies, the temperature hovering around 30C, a sound of... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' October Open Mic Night

  

  Upcoming on National Poetry Day our next open mic night on Zoom...Steve ;-) Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gate - A Word Investigation

  

  Gate is a four letter word and when thinking about it many things come to mind; the Golden Gate Bridge, political scandals like Watergate and more recently... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• In The Freezer - What's For Tea?

  

  Travelling home from a few weeks touring southern Scotland in our caravan, our conversation turned to “What’s for tea?” We had been eating out more than usual... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Celestial Bodies

  

  Having written only six weeks ago about star catalogues and star maps, I figured I owed it to all of us to find a different angle for this blog about celestial... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2023 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION