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• Truly, Madly Palindromic

  

  This will surely go down as the weirdest blog I've posted in my time at the blog face. Most mighty was the struggle and many the hours spent (some might... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Palindrome - Put on Your Thinking Cap.

  

  I had decided not to write a blog this week. It would, I considered, be very difficult to write a poem that would make sense when read both forwards and... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Palindromic Poem

  Well readers. This was quite a challenging topic this week. I had a notebook on the coffee table and kept jotting down ideas and the odd line. No doubt you get... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Saturday Night Sauce

  

  Bevvy, booze, bracer, brew, dram, firewater, grog, hooch, lotion, nip, potion, sauce , shot, slug, snifter, spirit, swilker, tincture, tipple, wackjuice - all... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sauce - a Very British Affair

  

  In 1960s Britain, a wave of saucy comedy films hit our cinema screens. They were outrageously funny, starred a team of regular actors and many of the silly catc... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sauce

  

  Imagine you are leaning back in your chair after a delicious meal at a friend’s house. You congratulate your host on the sauce that had added such flavour to th... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sauce - Keep It in the Fridge

  

  Most of the door compartments of my tall larder fridge are taken up with sauces. Apparently, everything needs refrigerating when it has been opened and must be... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Netherworlds

  

  Oh dear. Netherworlds is another theme that hasn't proved popular with the Dead Good blogging collective this week, but somebody has to boldly go there... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Distilling Moonshine

  

  "Oh, she give me moonshine whiskey, Oh, she give me southern love, Deep in the heart of Texas, There beneath the stars above." (Van Morrison from the LP... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Distilling

  

  Well I couldn't really pass up the opportunity of talking about whisky! Part of the allure of the holiday flat I let out was that we were 'close to the whisky... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Distilling - Mary Quant Socks

  

  Everything I know about distilling will fit inside one tiny test-tube, with room Everything I know about distilling will fit inside one tiny test-tube, with roo... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Satyrical

  

  You'll be expecting 'funny', no doubt, a bit of pointed lampooning into somebody's broadside? If so, I'm sorry to disappoint. When it comes to suitable cases fo... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Satire to Die For.

  

  Charlie Hebdo (French for Charlie Weekly) is a French satirical magazine featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Stridently non-conformist in tone, th... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journeys To War

  

  It feels almost perverse to be blogging about journeys during our second stretch of lockdown, but given the time of the season I thought I'd write something... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journey

  

  A friend of mine can make a trip to the newsagent seem like the adventure of a lifetime whilst another friend who had canoed up the Niger River in West Africa... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journey

  

  This weekend saw Remembrance Sunday and of course the 11th November was Armistace Day, the 102nd anniversay of the signing of the ceasefire on the Western Front... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journey - My Epic Travels

  

  We are all on our journey of life. We may visit many places, some planned, some unexpected, taking the good with the bad because that’s how it has to be. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Reading Poetry

  

  We all start off, if we're lucky, with a dose of the oral tradition, being entranced by the dancing power of words way before we're capable of reading for... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poetry Readings

  

  As you probably know already I attended a Junior Secondary school, having failed 11plus. However, this school was very progressive and we were encouraged in so... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poetry Readings

  

  My babies were fed nursery rhymes with their mother’s milk. As toddlers they loved picture books with repetitive poems and rhymes, and as they grew older,... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION