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• Slave to the Rhythm

  

  Anecdotal evidence from various family members informs me that I was a dancer before I could walk. My Dad loved the old Hollywood movies and I would sit... Read more

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

• Enslavement - History

  

  When I was young and starting out in my working life, I was amused by a cartoon poster on the staff room wall depicting a group of disgruntled workers, with... Read more

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

• Re Collections

  

  I've reached a difficult decision this week - not to go to Greece this summer on holiday (the first miss in years). It's been a tough call, because the... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Collections

  

  Over the years I've collected a variety of things. as a teenager I collected seashells from my travel around the coast of Scotland. these were labelled and... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Collections

  

  'Don’t tell my wife’, was a phrase I would regularly hear when I ran my antiquarian and second-hand bookshop in Ambleside, Cumbria, as a man bought another... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Collections

  

  In 1969 I went to work in a cafe in Devon for the summer season, with my best friend. Opposite the cafe was a sweet shop, which wasn’t a good thing for two teen... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Collections Connecting

  

  Collection A group of things or people. A group of accumulated items of a particular kind. A book or recording containing various texts, poems, songs etc.... Read more

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

• Egyptian Flour

  

  We thought it was scary enough back in March when panic buying over fears of Coronavirus lockdown saw every bag of every type of flour disappear within days fro... Read more

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

• Flour

  

  Of all the most important step forwards in human evolution from writing to the use of metals to electromagnetism I would put the simple of act of mixing flour... Read more

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

• Flour - a Simple Pleasure?

  

  At first I thought that this week's theme of 'flour' would be a tough blog but lots of ideas were soon presenting themselves. After all flour is the main... Read more

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

• Grandma's Cakes and a Bloody Pain

  

  My grandma looked the part. She was round and soft, with arms like ham shanks. Only took her pinny off when she put her hat on to leave the house. Oh yes, she... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flour - Fred, the Flour Dredger

  

  I hated Cookery at school. Nothing ever worked out for me. The shortcake made that morning, of which I was so proud, arrived home as a mass of crumbs in my tin. Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Petrichor

  

  The dead good word of the week appears to be petrichor. If you've been following the posts from my fellow bloggers over the last few days, you'll have read quit... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Petrichor

  

  Well, hello everyone! After a long absence I have decided that I really need to get inspired. It is strange that given these past sixteen weeks of lockdown I... Read more

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

• The Scent Of Rain

  

  Petrichor. What kind of word is Petrichor? If you look it up, you find references to the smell of rain, and an explanation of who made up the word, and what... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Petrichor - The Lost Fragrance of Rain

  

  Yesterday I walked home from my hospital appointment. It felt so good to be out in the fresh air of tree-lined East Park Drive. I had reached the zoo before I... Read more

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

• Who Let The Louts Out?

  

  If you live by the sea as I do, with golden sands on your doorstep, you've probably marvelled through the months of lockdown at how clear the sea had become... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Release

  

  Helen McCourt was a 22-year-old British insurance clerk who disappeared on 9 February 1988 in the village of Billinge near St Helens, Merseyside, shortly after... Read more

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

• Families

  

  Grandparents figure large in many people's lives. Not mine, sadly. My paternal grandparents were dead before ever I was conceived and my maternal grandmother... Read more

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

• Family

  

  During lockdown we all missed the close company of people. Perhaps it brought us together and made us realise our dependency on each other. Perhaps it brought... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION