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• Vinyl

  

  When I was decorating my front room a few years ago I made the momentous decision to chuck all my vinyl LPs and singles. Taking them to the tip was hard both... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Procrastination

  

  A wise man once said "Don't put off until tomorrow something which can easily be pushed off into next week or even the one after." Ha ha ha. Well guess what I... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Humdinger

  

  I'd never heard the word before this week, let alone knew what it meant, but I figured if something is going to be worthy of being called a humdinger, then at... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Friends

  

  Back in 1865 a pharmacist by the name of James Lofthouse in Fleetwood was talking to three deep-sea fishermen but was having difficulty listening to what they... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Friends A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

  

  Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. We become connected by common interests or something happens to throw us together. I’m lucky to have long-lastin... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' February Open Mic Night

  

  Love actually - or not - the theme is not compulsory. There are 20 x 5-minute slots on offer at our February open mic night on Zoom.Sign up to read or just to... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Humdinger

  

  I cannot imagine any circumstance under which I would use the term Humdinger. The Oxford English says that it means ‘a remarkable or outstanding person or... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Robins

  

  Top birds, robins. They don't really have red breasts, though, more a shade of dark orange wouldn't you say? And this is their season, of course, entwined as... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Procrastination

  

  According to the Oxford English the word ‘Procrastination’ is derived from the Latin ‘procrastinare’ which translates into: the prefix pro-, 'forward', and the... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Procrastination

  

  “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” A statement attributed to Benjamin Franklin, and one of my dad’s favourite sayings. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Drinking

  

  In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the 'wild man' Enkidu is given beer to drink. "... he ate until he was full, drank seven pitchers of beer, his heart grew light, his... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• An Unlikely Love

  

  I was tempted to skip this theme, to take a betwixtmas break from blogging, but then I thought 'You know what? I'm going to write a piece in appreciation of my... Read more

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

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' January Open Mic Night

  

  Join us for our first online open mic night of the New Year. There's no set theme and no headliners.. 20 x 5-minute slots are up for grabs on a 'first come'... Read more

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

• An Unlikely Love

  

  I’m going to have to go back to my school days and up until my mid twenties to make sense of An Unlikely Love. In school, and out of school, I could lose... Read more

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

• Robins

  

  “The English robin is a bird rather smaller than a sparrow, in build between a thrush and a warbler, uniform brown on the upper parts, with an orange red... Read more

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

• Build-Up

  

  We are well into the build-up to December's Festive Season, call it what you will... Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Koliada, Laylat al-Raghaib, Saturnalia, Yalda... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Robins

  

  (Erithacus rubecula, European Robin) are small birds with a distinctive red breast and are a common sight throughout Britain and indeed, throughout Europe... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Robins

  

  Mark Robins scored one of the more iconic goals in his career when he was playing for Manchester United in an away game against Nottingham Forest on the 7th... Read more

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

• Build Up

  

  The other week my friend was telling me about the trip she had made to Dubai with her son. She was describing the places they had visited which was interesting... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Achievement

  

  “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.” That is one of my father’s sayings that he was fond of using. I don’t think I ever thought of him as a wise... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION