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• This Blog Does Not Exist

  

  It was only a question of time before some nutter suggested an -antimatter- blog! (Okay, it might have been me.) And oh, the opportunities afforded under that... Read more

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

• Antimatter

  

  In the mid 1800s Michael Faraday gave public demonstrations of his experiments with electricity. It is one those great stories of science that may well be... Read more

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

• Linear Bee

  

  I hope the title raised either a smile or a quizzical eyebrow. The keeping of bees and the importance of honey have been central to Greek culture for millennia. Read more

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

• Memories Of Bees

  

  My first encounter with a bee was when I was four and playing with a friend in her garden. I got stung and screamed. First responder Mrs Durrett came out of... Read more

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

• Bees - Something Special

  

  Manchester Bee, beautiful, symbolic and instantly recognisable. My ancestry is firmly rooted in the city, Moss Side, Openshaw, Chorlton-On-Medlock, Ancoats,... Read more

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

• Bees

  

  Today I picked a bee up from a pavement. No bee should be on hot tarmac where careless people can step on it. I was running around with the bee in my hand,... Read more

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

• Frisson

  

  The simple English dictionary definition of frisson is: an emotional thrill; (and oh yes, I do have a simple English dictionary...as portable companion to a... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Claims

  

  I didn't know what I was going to write about this week until Tuesday, when I started to read Clare Chambers' latest novel 'Small Pleasures ' (very good, by... Read more

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

• Claims

  

  Not much to say on this one but I do have an appropriate poem, written when I was a hard working single Mum of two. We all know oneThere’s a man who lives at... Read more

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

• Claims - What Did You Do, Radio 2?

  

  I got a bit mad recently. Not red and raging, just a niggle that exploded and set me off looking for answers Victor Meldrew style.It started off with Radio 2’s... Read more

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

• Lifelines & Deadlines

  

  The pressure has been on this week to complete a new poem, after two Saturday Blogs in succession without one. Truth to tell, I've not been idling. Read more

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

• Silence

  

  ? Really, there's no such thing. It's conceptual at best. The universe is a noise bomb, believe me!Let's have the subject/object discussion up front: if we can'... Read more

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

• The Sound of Silence

  

  Silence! The word always reminds me of the instruction given by school mistresses to my chattering classmates as we waited to enter St Paul's church for... Read more

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

• Silence - It's Not Always Golden

  

  Like most people I guess I’m a bit of a mixture when it comes to silence. Some might say I have no idea what the word means. I’m rarely quiet for very long... Read more

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

• Silence - I'll Settle for Quiet

  

  “Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.” (From Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, 1927)How refreshing it feels just to... Read more

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

• Sounds Of Silence

  

  On August 29, 1952, at a hall tucked on a wooded dirt road in Woodstock (yes, that one) the piano virtuoso David Tudor prepared to perform. Read more

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

• Take Four Northern Men...

  

  ...from a provincial city on the slide since the mid-1950s, a dirty city hammered by Hitler's bombers and then side-stepped in the post-war reconstruction. Read more

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

• Northern Men Just Grunt

  

  I wonder if you have ever participated in a personality test? The sort of thing that tries to work out what type of personality you are. For example, are you... Read more

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

• Northern Man - Lock up Your Daughters

  

  My first encounter with what I now consider the archetypal Northern man was on a trip to the cinema with my family when I was about 5 years old. The stars were... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Northern Man: Sub Species Homos Accringtonus

  

  I first began my research into the Northern Male way back in 1972 when I was approached by one, quite unexpectedly, behind a building where I was hiding. Read more

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