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• Branching Out - The Ties That Bind Us

  

  The other day, I found myself having a gentle fight with a buddleia. It is actually three buddleia bushes intertwined and in spite of my best efforts to keep... Read more

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

• A Decade Of Dead Good Blogs

  

  As birthday celebrations go, the poor old DGB's has been a bit muted this week, even something of an anti-climax, with just one blog (this one) and a quick... Read more

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

• Donkey Ices

  

  Hello everyone. Here's the first 100% all new Saturday Blog in a month. It's July. The sun is supposed to be blazing down on the jewel of the north. As I... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ice Cream Passion

  

  I don’t have a sweet tooth. Never had.When I was little I didn’t like chocolates, cakes, toffees, lemonade. You name any sweet thing and it’s on my NO list, eve... Read more

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

• Ice Cream - Oh For Some Tutti Frutti!

  

  This time last week we were enjoying warm sunshine in Kirkcudbright. We sat by the harbour car park enjoying every miniature mouthful of our Cream O’ Galloway... Read more

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

• Ice Cream

  

  Here’s a few tunes: Amazing Grace, Edelweiss, O Sole Mio, Greensleeves, Match of the Day, Soul Limbo ( Test Match Special theme ), Amarillo and Ice Ice Baby by... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dreamzzzzz...

  

  I am a dreamer, always have been. When asleep and when awake. The daydreamer’s visions are always bright, exciting. And then often collapsing in the crash with... Read more

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

• Midsummer Night's Dream

  

  I was fortunate during my degree studies to take a couple of trips to Stratford to attend performances of Shakespeare plays by the RSC. Read more

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

• For The Record

  

  Those of us who were teenagers when music was played on vinyl records, probably regard that as a golden era for music production. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• For the Record - Put It Straight

  One glorious summer afternoon, a few years ago, my husband and I were on my ancestry trail in Manchester's Southern Cemetery. I had done some groundwork online... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2021 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wanderlust

  

  Coronavirus has acted like a wanderlust inhibitor for millions of us for fifteen months already; and I suspect its brake-effect will go on being felt for many... Read more

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

• Wanderlust - Travelling Eternity Road

  

  Like everyone else I’ve been at home for months with little prospect of going anywhere. Luckily, I don’t mind. I’m happy and safe at home, or at my place of wor... Read more

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

• This Blog Does Not Exist

  

  It was only a question of time before some nutter suggested an -antimatter- blog! (Okay, it might have been me.) And oh, the opportunities afforded under that... Read more

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

• Antimatter

  

  In the mid 1800s Michael Faraday gave public demonstrations of his experiments with electricity. It is one those great stories of science that may well be... Read more

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

• Linear Bee

  

  I hope the title raised either a smile or a quizzical eyebrow. The keeping of bees and the importance of honey have been central to Greek culture for millennia. Read more

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

• Memories Of Bees

  

  My first encounter with a bee was when I was four and playing with a friend in her garden. I got stung and screamed. First responder Mrs Durrett came out of... Read more

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

• Bees - Something Special

  

  Manchester Bee, beautiful, symbolic and instantly recognisable. My ancestry is firmly rooted in the city, Moss Side, Openshaw, Chorlton-On-Medlock, Ancoats,... Read more

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

• Bees

  

  Today I picked a bee up from a pavement. No bee should be on hot tarmac where careless people can step on it. I was running around with the bee in my hand,... Read more

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

• Frisson

  

  The simple English dictionary definition of frisson is: an emotional thrill; (and oh yes, I do have a simple English dictionary...as portable companion to a... Read more

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

• Claims

  

  I didn't know what I was going to write about this week until Tuesday, when I started to read Clare Chambers' latest novel 'Small Pleasures ' (very good, by... Read more

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