Ashleylister

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2170 )

• Reputation

  

  I’m not really qualified to comment on the Taylor Swift album ‘reputation’ which is the main result of searching google for the subject. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Navigation

  

  These are proving tricky times to navigate through, for many of us as individuals, for us collectively as a nation. Events of the past few weeks have been... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Navigation

  

  is according to the National Geographic the art and science of determining the position of a ship or plane or other vehicle and guiding it to a specific place. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Navigation Canals

  

  I had no idea that originally our canals back in the late 18th century were called Navigation Canals and the men who worked on them were called Navigators and... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Navigation - Sat-nav Or Map?

  

  “Navigation? Simple. There’s an app for that.”I have my own ‘app’ in the form of an enlarged, easy to read road atlas. It is far better than the rude... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' August Open Mic Night

  

  Zooming up this week, poeticals...I hope you can join us, to read or just to listen in. Email: [email protected] to register for the link and passcode... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Image

  

  I have been in several minds how to pitch today's blog about 'image'. It's been a harrowing week, what with a horrific murder spree in nearby Southport and... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Image

  

  Have a look at the image above of the Boulevard du Temple taken by Louis Daguerre in 1839. It is believed to be the first photograph showing a living person... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Image

  

  : a visual representation of something.Contemplating this word and its definition started another mind boggling experience down the cyberspace rabbit hole... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bells

  

  With the exception of those worn by cows and those found on ships, just about every conceivable sort of bell seems to have been written about this week. Do you... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hell's Bells

  

  Being retired, I no longer have any pressing need to ever set an alarm to wake me from reluctant sleep - except on a Sunday, when I rise at (to me) the unearthl... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Church Bells

  

  It’s early evening, the windows are open and from across the river the sounds of church bells are drifting into my room as I start this blog. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bells - Last Orders

  

  The first bells of any significance to me must be the ones used by my father and grandfather to call ‘last orders’ and ‘time, gentlemen, please’ in their pubs. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bells

  

  are probably one of the earliest things we hear as human beings. They are one of a number of things in the parents' armoury to sooth unhappy babies. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Jump

  

  I wasn't sure I was even going to blog today...partly as I'm away and partly because the theme of Jump didn't particularly inspire me, But then I came across a... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Jump

  

  Please excuse any incoherence or even punctuation errors in this blog as I want to get the writing of it out of the way as soon as possible. The very thought... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Arboreal

  

  To quote from the old Dean Martin chestnut about a big pizza pie and stars making you drool: "When you can't see the wood for the trees, that's arboreal." No,... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Arbo-real

  

  Home is where my trees are.I can see what that sounds like: my trees? And no, I am not claiming possession. I say ‘my trees’ like people now say ‘my person’... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Arboreal

  

  My Collins Dictionary defines ‘Arboreal’ as ‘relating to, or resembling a tree’ so I was rather pleased when this topic arose as I have always been a bit... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Arboreal - A Wild Night

  

  The Friendly TreeI’ve found a place beside a friendly tree,Where I’ll hide my face when the world hurts me,For the tree will never hurt; I shall love it to the... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION