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• My Fantasy Dinner Party Guests - A Good Time To Be Had By All

  

  It would be wonderful to have friends and family round. A gathering in the garden on a warm afternoon, children running riot, adults laughing, sharing jokes,... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Handwritten In The Style

  

  I was born to be a doctor: good manners, compassionate nature, analytical mind, almost illegible handwriting. But then at age eight I found myself in old Miss... Read more

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

• Hand Writing

  

  Without the pen then images on a surface would have remained as cave art. In about 3200 BCE in Mesopotamia (Southern Iraq) cuneiform writing was created using... Read more

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

• Handwriting - It Says a Lot

  

  1956. There were 40 of us squashed into a tiny classroom, all clutching our fat pencils in grubby, playground hands. Our teacher, Mrs Gorvin, stood at the... Read more

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

• Handwriting - Don't Lose the Basics

  

  I used to take pride in my handwriting, though these days it is limited to a shopping list or a quick note. I’ve received many compliments for my ‘beautiful... Read more

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

• Handwriting

  

  When was the last time you received in the post a handwritten letter from another person? Or when did you last write a handwritten letter to anyone else? Read more

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

• Sallow Yellow

  

  I love colour imagery. My poem below was influenced by a wonderful novel – The Aunt’s Story by Patrick White, set before World War I. Read more

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

• Yellow

  

  This Saturday's blog is brought to you by: the colour yellow, the number 7, the letter K, the planet Mercury, the Sicilian lemon, the custard frog protection... Read more

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

• A Yellow Day

  

  I followed the mountain trail waymarked in yellow To a meadow of dandelions - so yellow and mellow. The colour amazed me and held me entranced. Happily I ran... Read more

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

• Mellow Yellow

  

  There are many local legends about how saffron came to Kashmir. One goes back to the 12th century, and says that Sufi saints Khawaja Masood Wali and Sheikh... Read more

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

• Colours: Yellow

  

  So: (which is my favourite way of starting anything) I had lots of ideas when I signed up for a guest blogging spot on the theme of Yellow. I made copious notes... Read more

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

• Yellow - Daffodils

  

  Yellow is the colour of sunshine, something there is so little of in these bleak, January days. Thinking of yellow and sunshine brings back treasured memories o... Read more

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

• The Language Of Yellow

  

  There are many types of languages. These structured communications can be visual, written or spoken. Language conveys meaning, and in some cases, feeling. Colou... Read more

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

• Colonies

  

  Over the last few months, I've read quite a few books about an ex-patriate international colony of artists who made the Greek island of Hydra their home in the... Read more

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

• Low Expectations

  

  A wise old Byzantine once said (and I translate): "If you elect arseholes, you get trumps!" The bad smell emanating from the White House over the last four year... Read more

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

• Expectation

  

  Well, I have the greatest expectation of all this year... totally unexpected... for I am to be a GRANDMOTHER !!My son at 44 is to be a first time father.... Read more

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

• Expectation - Uncertain Times

  

  It is not quite Epiphany but the Christmas tree, cards and all the trimmings have been taken down and packed away. There was an element of sadness. I didn’t fee... Read more

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

• Rollovers

  

  Hello 2021, what you knowing? Let's hope, as we roll over into the new year, that per my fanciful illustration below, the emblematic white bird of hope really... Read more

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

• Crackle

  

  Don't we all want to forget Grim Reality for a few days as we try and recapture something of the joyful mood that the season usually brings? Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Crackle - Snap, Crackle and Pop

  

  On our second trip to the Outer Hebrides, we stayed in a fabulous cottage on the Isle of Barra. It was a restored and extended Crofter’s cottage with many... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION