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• Elephants

  

  Firstly let me apologise for my tardiness in writing a regular blog. At present my life is like an episode of a soap opera. Anyway, I settled down for a few... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Elephants - Jumbo Jet

  

  My recent travels have taken me to Cheshire, Yorkshire and Scotland over the last five or six weeks. Most of it has been during some of the warmest summer... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Acton Impulse

  

  Some think that Acton Impulse is the name of a west London ice-hockey franchise, runners-up in the National Ice Hockey League in 1984, 1987, 1988 and 2003. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Impulse - Spontaneous Acts of Generosity

  

  From a very young age it was obvious that I was a fairly impulsive person. I often found myself stuck up on the roof or chimney stack having followed my... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sic Note

  

  Paper! It has to rank as one of the greatest of man's inventions, along with the wheel, the football and the long-playing record. Already you can tell I'm in no... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Paper - Examination

  

  I chose a place next to the wall. I could lean my bare arm on the tiles for some cooling respite from the heat of the afternoon. The scuffed, well-worn desk... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lit From Below

  

  Note to blogself: post at dusk... for crepuscular derives from the Latin crepusculum, meaning twilight; and twilight, in turn, means that brief period of the da... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Crepuscular

  

  Well I am back - after a sustained absence. I had to take time out to look after number one. I have been quite poorly but more than that - I simply haven't... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flagrance

  

  I'm afraid I've been somewhat short of time in the last few days to do any serious preparation for the blog. That, coupled with the fact that the topic of... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fragrance - In Memoriam

  

  The mornings, a time for toast and cereal, checking homework is in satchel, P E kit if required then sending children off to school. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Is This The End?

  

  Here is a short story I first wrote for a competition in 2015. I've resurrected the main piece and altered it for the blog, along with an illustration to help... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Life Cycle by Jill Reidy

  

  I've written all my life. I have diaries from when I was six, short stories in exercise books and blogs on all sorts. I even self published a children's novel... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Short Story Week - Once Upon A Time...

  

  A theme of 'Short Story Week' and an opportunity to re-read my back catalogue, so to speak. I hope I'm not being self indulgent in sharing my short story from... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Love Among The Scatter Cushions

  

  When I first set eyes on this week's allotted theme, my spirits flagged. Cushion! It put me in mind of that popular radio panel game where contestants have to... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cushion - Creature Comforts

  

  My recent travels have included some out of the way places and destinations I may not have the opportunity to revisit. It has been important to me to collect... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moon In June Too

  

  What a happy few days in the jewel of the north, at least for those of a tangerine persuasion! Passion combined with principle wins out in the end. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moon In June

  

  When our two children were young, it was the era of the wonderful Nick Park Wallace and Gromit film animations. There were several entertaining exploits, but ou... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Running Sacred

  

  The title of this Saturday's blog is meant to induce a double-take. Yes indeed, running not scared but sacred - though I have to confess that it's not an... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sacred Locations

  

  My late husband had a great love of history and archaeology, which he passed to me. Don't get me wrong, as an avid map reader I'd always had an interest in not... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sacred - Auntie's Lord Jesus

  

  A plaster figurine of Our Lord Jesus stood on my auntie’s bedside table for as far back as I can remember. As a child, he fascinated me. I could look, but not... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION