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• Stress - Des Res Near the Park, Anyone?

  

  It is said, and I believe it, that moving house is one of the most stressful things to deal with. I have moved seventeen times and would dearly like an... Read more

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

• Peripheral

  

  What a great word, peripheral, meaning variously: auxiliary, external, insignificant, of secondary importance, on the border/edge/fringe/margin, outlying. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Biorhythms

  

  Hmm, biorhythms. I'm aware there's a lot of scepticism surrounding the subject and pseudo-science has much to answer for in that regard, as a heap of speculativ... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Biorhythms

  

  I was wandering through the undergrowth of the internet looking for details about Biorhythms that did not include balderdash regarding some pseudo-scientific... Read more

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

• Biorhythms - Life Cycles

  

  Long before speed cameras were installed on the A583, my personal best driving time from my little house in Layton to my place of work in Preston was seventeen... Read more

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

• Sestina

  

  Really? I'm supposed to write about one of the most complex of poetic forms, the sestina , on this, the hottest Saturday of the hottest week of the year?... Read more

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

• Branching Out

  

  Leonard Taylor had no way of knowing that his desire for branching out would lead so swiftly to his untimely end. The son of Fred Taylor, the man in charge of... Read more

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

• Sestina - The Secret

  

  After dealing with the bindweed on the buddleia and nursing the contents of my over-full planters towards flowering, it has been lovely to sit out in the... Read more

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

• Branching Out - The Ties That Bind Us

  

  The other day, I found myself having a gentle fight with a buddleia. It is actually three buddleia bushes intertwined and in spite of my best efforts to keep... Read more

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

• A Decade Of Dead Good Blogs

  

  As birthday celebrations go, the poor old DGB's has been a bit muted this week, even something of an anti-climax, with just one blog (this one) and a quick... Read more

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

• Donkey Ices

  

  Hello everyone. Here's the first 100% all new Saturday Blog in a month. It's July. The sun is supposed to be blazing down on the jewel of the north. As I... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ice Cream Passion

  

  I don’t have a sweet tooth. Never had.When I was little I didn’t like chocolates, cakes, toffees, lemonade. You name any sweet thing and it’s on my NO list, eve... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ice Cream - Oh For Some Tutti Frutti!

  

  This time last week we were enjoying warm sunshine in Kirkcudbright. We sat by the harbour car park enjoying every miniature mouthful of our Cream O’ Galloway... Read more

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

• Ice Cream

  

  Here’s a few tunes: Amazing Grace, Edelweiss, O Sole Mio, Greensleeves, Match of the Day, Soul Limbo ( Test Match Special theme ), Amarillo and Ice Ice Baby by... Read more

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

• Dreamzzzzz...

  

  I am a dreamer, always have been. When asleep and when awake. The daydreamer’s visions are always bright, exciting. And then often collapsing in the crash with... Read more

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

• Midsummer Night's Dream

  

  I was fortunate during my degree studies to take a couple of trips to Stratford to attend performances of Shakespeare plays by the RSC. Read more

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

• For The Record

  

  Those of us who were teenagers when music was played on vinyl records, probably regard that as a golden era for music production. Read more

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

• For the Record - Put It Straight

  One glorious summer afternoon, a few years ago, my husband and I were on my ancestry trail in Manchester's Southern Cemetery. I had done some groundwork online... Read more

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

• Wanderlust

  

  Coronavirus has acted like a wanderlust inhibitor for millions of us for fifteen months already; and I suspect its brake-effect will go on being felt for many... Read more

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

• Wanderlust - Travelling Eternity Road

  

  Like everyone else I’ve been at home for months with little prospect of going anywhere. Luckily, I don’t mind. I’m happy and safe at home, or at my place of wor... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION