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• Small Worlds

  

  My first recollection of anything miniature was a farm I was given for Christmas in 1967. I still have it. Everything that ‘lives’ on this farm is really small... Read more

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

• Reverses

  

  A few weeks ago I tortured my brain (and yours too, probably) with a blog and poems based on the palindrome. This week it's reverses - not nearly so... Read more

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

• Plastic Arts & Surface Tensions

  

  I've read with interest my fellow bloggers' verdicts on cosmetic surgery and I'm aligned with the consensus. I think the plastic surgeon's art is invaluable in... Read more

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

• Accept The Inevitable, Duck

  

  Expensive vanity or a benefit to the nation? Staying seventeen into your seventies, a bikini figure with a sixty inch bust in your mid-eighties? A wrinkle free... Read more

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

• Cosmetic Surgery

  

  I was going to approach this article on cosmetic surgery by looking at the history, the current practices, future trends and the costs of these procedures. Read more

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

• My Life Story - It's Looking at You

  

  I’m not particularly keen on looking in the mirror these days. At the age of 68 11/12 the reflection is not what it was 50 years ago, or even, it seems, 50... Read more

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

• Cosmetic Surgery - Nipped and Tucked

  

  I’m glad to be happy in my own skin. I’m fine with my appearance, it’s what you’d expect for a woman of my age carrying the experiences of my life. The lines... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Confessions

  

  There's a lot about bad doings in the woods this week and their follow-on. Could the work quoted below, for instance, be considered one of the earliest... Read more

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

• Confessional Epiphany

  

  One bored day in my dingy Manchester flat I picked up a magazine, flipped idly through it and found a poem. I knew nothing about poetry except for the War Poets... Read more

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

• Confessional Poetry

  

  A quick definition of Confessional Poetry would be that it is poetry focused on the ‘I’.It deals with subjects polite society would rather sweep under the... Read more

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

• There's Snow

  

  There is a common, popular misconception that Australia has only one weather pattern, and that is—hot. It's not true, of course. Read more

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

• Snow Days

  

  I spent my earliest years living within striking distance (500 or so miles) of the equator, so snow existed only in the realms of the fantastical, on Christmas... Read more

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

• Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

  

  I just adore fresh, crisp snow - not that we get much of that down here! The first sign of a snowflake and I put boots, gloves, hat and quilted coat on and I... Read more

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

• Snow Lexicography

  

  We don't have snow very often in my part of the world in fact I can count the number of heavy snowfall in Blackpool on one hand. Read more

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

• Snow....Friend Or Foe?

  

  We very rarely get snow in Blackpool. We might get a short flurry but it never seems to settle. Which is why it was strange this morning to wake up knowing... Read more

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

• Snow - Fun in Padfield

  

  It snowed yesterday. Just a tiny bit. Enough for my grandson to notice and tell me and sure enough, there was a flurry. We watched through the back room... Read more

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

• Snow In Spain

  

  The recent heavy snowfall in Spain reminded me of a holiday we experienced some years ago.We wanted to escape winter in Blighty so took up the invitation to... Read more

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

• The Supper Party

  

  Not some staged Mike Leigh or Harold Pinter weirdness, though I did briefly consider writing about an imaginary birthday party (given that it was my own birthda... Read more

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

• A Fantasy Dinner Party

  

  A little while ago an online book group to which I belong asked the question: If you could go on a date with a writer, who would it be and what would you do? No... Read more

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

• The Guest List - My Dream Dinner Party

  

  It’s Feb 2021 and we’re in the midst of a pandemic. The dinner party was arranged over a year ago and it’s been in the planning stage ever since. I sent out... Read more

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