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• Knitting - In, Round, Through, Off

  

  Filling the bird feeders is my first job of the morning. Three fat-ball holders and two seed holders hanging on branches of the surrounding fir trees provide a... Read more

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

• Ridiculous?

  

  Another Saturday Blog deadline goes to the wire even as COP26 negotiations are trundling to a less than successful conclusion in Glasgow. Read more

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

• Ridiculous

  

  In September, after the schools went back and when we hoped that London would be less busy, we decided to take a break and have a trip to the capital. One of ou... Read more

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

• Ridiculous

  

  I am going to have a rant today. My blood is boiling and I can't keep it in. I began on Saturday when my 32 year old son developed a problem with a swollen knee. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Too Ridiculous for Words

  

  I’ve realised recently that the word, ‘ridiculous,’ is one I use pretty often (along with, ‘exactly’ and, ‘absolutely,’ which irritated my husband so much that... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Plane Terror

  

  Just to disambiguate that title, for starters: my terror is not of planes themselves, nor of flying in them (in fact I love air travel), but of being too late... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Terror

  

  Last week I had dinner at my mum's. After we had finished I called a taxi, and waited on her front step. I waited, and waited. It didn't arrive. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Not Such A Nice Surprise

  

  Terror definition: extreme fear, dread, horrorAnd one of the worst feelings in the world.I could probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of times... Read more

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

• Terror - Ghostly Happenings

  

  There’s something scary about looking up into the darkness at the top of the stairs. It started at my great-grandmother’s house when I was a little girl. Read more

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

• Surly Early Saturday Hurly-Burly

  

  I'm off to Sheffield today to watch the Mighty play (Blackpool FC in case you didn't guess), so I had to be up insanely early at the blogface to submit this... Read more

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

• Hurly-Burly

  

  I’m going to go back a few years here to the days before all-seater football stadiums existed. An evening game at St Andrews in 1968 when Birmingham were playin... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hurly Burly - No Mall & No Builders!

  

  As far as possible, I will avoid any commotion, hurly-burly and busy places, especially since I retired from work. Sometimes things happen and I find myself... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Reclamation Of A People

  

  – Women Creole Artists, Language, Dialect and Legacy"We can take everything that English education has to offer us, but ultimately, we must reject the dominatio... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Larks and Larfs

  

  I’ve long been fascinated by accents. I think this must have begun at the age of 18 when I left home and went to art college in Leicester. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Take Three Birds

  

  There's a sub-theme threading through this week's outpouring on the topic of: This Bird Has Flown. The clue is animal with Norwegian connections (to paraphrase... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• This Bird Has Flown

  

  I wish I had some lovely story to tell you about raising a baby bird; one that had fallen out of its nest. How I’d rescued it, put it in a shoebox with tissue,... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• This Bird Has Flown - Bless You, Billy

  

  A recent episode of the new All Creatures Great and Small took me back to my childhood. The story included a blue budgerigar, left at the vet’s surgery for mino... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mispoints

  

  Who doesn't love a topographical error? đŸ˜„ There should be a mispoints rating.Scoring maximum mispoints would be my personal favourite,... Read more

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

• A Load of Mispants

  

  Like many children born in the 1950s I spent the first few years of my life television-free. There was great excitement when a little square box appeared in... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Purgatory

  

  No one likes being stuck in a most boring place for very long. Thankfully, we are evolved enough as a species not to have so sit around picking fleas off,... Read more

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