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• 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

• 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