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• Cliff Hanger, Puffins & More

  

  When I do laundry, I am first a washer, then a hanger of clothes. If I was named Cliff, then I could be called Cliff Hanger or Cliff the Hanger, which sounds... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Summer

  

  After eight years as a regular Saturday blogger, I'm searching for a seasonal summer slant that's not been used before. This week's record temperatures -... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Summer - Making Memories

  

  It is here, at last, the moment we’ve been waiting for. Proper sultry, summer weather of hot sun and blue skies from dawn until dusk, which is around... Read more

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

• Cancel Culture

  

  . What is it? Where did it come from? Should we care? I'll keep this as brief as possible.It has become a 21st century social phenomenon, whereby a conscious... Read more

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

• Harlequin

  

  My diligent research into Harlequin for this week's blog led me to conclude that at his inception he was literally 'hell king' i.e. the devil in human form, at... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' July Open Mic Night

  

  All comers are welcome tonight. This is an online event with 20 five-minute performance slots available:Steve ;-) Email ThisBlogThis! Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Harlequin - A Knitted Memory

  

  From Wikipedia – ‘The oldest versions of the word harlequin – the Middle Dutch hellekijn and the Old French hellequin, reference hell and a mean kind of demon. Read more

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

• Journey

  

  It's been an interesting cultural and literary experience, reading Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer ' and David Lodge's 'Thinks... Read more

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

• Journey

  

  Travel is exciting. The processes we go through when planning, packing and setting off on a journey is all part of the ritual. How many outfits to take, what... Read more

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

• Journey

  

  I don’t know about you but when I’m planning a journey to a strange town or city I do like to know where the Castle is, where the theatres are, where the shops... Read more

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

• Journey Through Time

  

  'Journey'Going from one place to another physically and or within the mind.Being taken to somewhere else, travelling in such a way where things unfoldwith... Read more

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

• Mermaids

  

  Prologue: I wrote a poem featuring mermaids just six weeks ago for my 'Essence' (water) blog - poor forward planning, I know. I also wrote one back in the... Read more

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

• Mermaids - Of Course They Are Real!

  

  I was thinking about mermaids, trying to decide how to approach this blog when I realised that the answers I was looking for might just be right in front of me. Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chimneys

  

  Gawd bless Dick Van Dyke and his motley crew of chimney-sweeps! For which young boy, after watching the original film of 'Mary Poppins ', didn't hanker after... Read more

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

• Four Legs Good - Come on Pearl

  

  I am getting very excited! For some weeks now I have been following the adventures of a four-legged friend. Pearl is a beautiful rescue donkey who has been... Read more

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

• Four Legs Good - Cassie and Crombie

  

  We’d had cats, hamsters and gerbils when the children were small. What they really wanted was a dog. When the last of the gerbils passed away, the pleas began... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Quince

  

  . A suitably regal theme for jubilee week-end perhaps? Bit of a posh fruit? They dined like princes on slices of quinces, runcible spoons to hand, in street... Read more

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

• Quince

  

  One of the few places in the world that I would dearly like to visit is Mesopotamia. It has so many claims to be the cradle of human civilisation. From cities t... Read more

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

• False Memory

  

  I thought I'd already written this week's blog! False memory - only joking. đŸ˜‰My reading matter at the moment is 'Girl To City: a memoir... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Memory Spins False Worlds

  

  Our fame is as storytelling creatures. Arguably, this is the dividing line between animal and humankind. Our ability to displace ourselves from the present... Read more

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