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• Challenging Conventions

  

  The recent screening of the BBC's big three-part betwixtmas drama A Very British Scandal , concerning the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, their turbulent marriage... Read more

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

• Challenge

  

  As it’s almost New Year and a time to make that resolution which next year will be a huge success, I thought I’d start off by having a quick look at where this... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Challenge - Defensive Driving

  

  For almost two years now, everyday life has brought challenges. As Covid 19 and all variants took over and made us re-think how we do things and consider... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mementos

  

  I'm up with the Christmas robin and Ho! Ho! Ho! This is the first time in my seven years at the Saturday blog face that I've been required to post something on... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mementos

  

  Funny thing, when I started to think about what to write on the subject of mementos, my thoughts ewre immediately drawn to a small black writing case, secreted... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• This Rare Earth

  

  "Scientia potentia est" is a Latin aphorism (exact provenance unknown) most commonly translated as "With knowledge comes power". Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rare Earth

  

  "No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man." HeraclitusWhat can I say on the subject of Rare Earth? Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rare Earth - Learn These Elements

  

  Every day is a school day and this morning I’ve buried myself in the equivalent of Double Science – not a favourite subject unless we’re doing biology and... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sharks!

  

  "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..." has to be one of the most famous taglines in movie history, slicing like a dorsal fin through... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sharks

  

  Ever since the film ‘Jaws’ in 1975, when the ability of sharks to be predators and attack people on beaches was highlighted, there has been at the back of my... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Listening Skin

  

  I found myself with two perfectly familiar strangers in the attic room of a three-storey house somewhere in the North West of England. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Numbers Are Fantastic

  

  I attended a County Primary school in the 1960s and as a result I have a good general background in numeracy and literacy. We were taught times tables, (of... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Listening - Pounds, Shillings and Pence

  

  “You were not listening!” Mrs S raged, dark eyes blazing with hatred. I shook, whimpered and cried as she smacked me hard, many times, across the back of my leg... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Listening

  

  The pictures are better on the radio. It’s a bit of a cliché but it’s based on, what to me and millions of others, is a reality. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Marmalade

  

  Another Saturday, another blog (and by the way, belatedly, happy Lancashire Day). Went to Birmingham, saw lots of snow, got freezing cold, watched a football... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Marillen Marmalade

  

  Marmalade pronounced in the German way is “Mar–mey-lad-ay”.At some stage while at Junior school. my mother introduced me to her Aunt Berta, taking me by train,... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pulling The Wool

  

  I must apologise up front for the fact that very little of this Saturday Blog will be about knitting. It hasn't featured prominently in my life and I don't... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Knitting

  

  I never thought I would be writing about knitting. As a child my mum used to knit a lot and she tried to teach me, but it wasn’t something I considered ‘cool’... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Knitting - Get Creative

  

  When I was a very small gril, my Auntie Effie would come to visit and sit while mum and dad had a well earned night off. She always came with a bag of yarn and... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Oh What a Tangled Mess

  

  When I was about seven or eight the fashion magazines were full of glamorous young women sporting knitted twinsets. For those readers younger than about sixty,... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION