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• 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

• Even In Boring Places...

  

  I’d been thinking about what people (me) may class as boring places e.g. country villages, departure lounges, Villa Park, comedy clubs etc when I realised that... Read more

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

• A Most Boring Place

  

  Both my parents were Catholic – of the non-practising type, excepting, perhaps, Christmas, weddings and in my father’s case, his own funeral. Read more

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

• The Most Boring Place - Sunday Afternoon, Age 6

  

  I’ve always got something to do or something to think about. I like to be alone with my thoughts but equally, I like to enjoy good company. Read more

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

• The Most Boring Place

  

  For many years we lived in Derbyshire and it coincided with the time when our children were little. It is a beautiful place to live. Read more

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

• Keep On Running

  

  Once again I'm struck by the way in which a theme - Keep On Running - selected and sequenced months ago, manages to chime with the latest breaking fiasco in... Read more

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

• Olive

  

  It's a fruit from a tree, one of the oldest of domesticated crops, a staple of Mediterranean cuisine, a source of oil, a beautiful wood, a girl's name and a... Read more

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

• Olive Oyl

  

  Described as tall, gangly, big-footed with black hair tied in a bun was my introduction to Olive Oyl, the long-time love interest of Popeye the sailor man. To... Read more

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

• Olive - Peace Offering

  

  The olive plant, a small, attractive tree cultivated in Mediterranean countries for the fruit and the manufacture of olive oil which is a core ingredient of... Read more

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