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• Collage Poetry #2

  

  You’ve sat down at your desk, the pencil (Lamy propelling) and rubber positioned just so, the light is perfect and there are no distractions to stop you startin... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Collage Poetry

  

  CollageThe art of making a picture with various materials or objects…stuck onto a larger surface.PoetryA piece of writing in which the words are arranged in... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Three Days That Changed The World

  

  I've ducked out of writing about an obvious three days that changed the world - the crucifixion to the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth - partly because I... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Days That Changed The World - Operation Dynamo

  

  The Second World War had begun in western Europe on 1 September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. In Belgium and France there was a long winter of waiting as... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Days That Changed The World

  

  When I first started to ponder the theme of Days that Changed the World my mind went immediately to the book 'Ten Days That Shook The World' by John Reed, his... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Days That Changed the World - WWW

  

  30th April 1993, a very significant date that I was unaware of until I looked it up. CERN, which is the French acronym for the European Council for Nuclear... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Out Of Control

  

  Hmmm. Out of control is this week's allotted blog theme. It begs the rhetorical question "where to begin?" Daily Covid-19 case numbers are at record levels. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• (Gar)dens

  

  A proud father writes: my youngest daughter got married on Wednesday, at Tower Hamlets Town Hall in London. It was a wonderful day. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dens (various)

  

  When I looked up meanings of ‘dens’ as a word on its own rather than the plural of ‘den’ I found that it referred to a type of fracture, a part of the spinal... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dens - Sanctuary

  

  My eldest grandson liked to enclose himself in the book corner. He discovered that by opening a door to the toy cupboard and a door on the fitted unit, he... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Concrete

  

  Every school project on The Romans taught us that famously they built using concrete. This is true, from about 300 B.C. onwards. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Concrete and the Clay

  

  I loved the Flinstones cartoons. The creators were so imaginative in their ideas of how a modern stoneage family would function. Fred played ten-pin bowling wit... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A.i.

  

  Maybe it's because I've been to see a strange and funny film this evening ('The Phantom of the Open'), or perhaps it's as a counter-balance to all the horror... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• On A.I. Our Modern Prometheus

  

  "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A 1 - Cherished Number Plate

  

  The first car registration plate was A1 and issued by London County Council in 1903. From 1st January, 1904 it was compulsory for every motor vehicle to be... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Scale(s)

  

  One little word, such a variety of meanings: scale gets nearly a whole page to itself in the Concise Oxford Dictionary. Already this week my fellow bloggers in... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Scales

  

  When I was thinking about writing about Scales I had a vague idea of checking on the two or three meanings of the word I could think of from the top of my head... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wake up Russia - the Scales of Justice Are Ready

  

  I hope today that I can speak directly to those who read our blog in Russia. I am fiercly aware that your government are clamping down on the flow of informatio... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Scales - Tweak That Metronome

  

  No amount of practising simplified Mozart pieces or running up and down major and minor scales would impress the piano teacher. I stopped trying. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ukraine

  

  I was planning to take a break from blogging this week. Then Putin ordered the Russian invasion of Ukraine and suddenly the imperative is there to try and... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION