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• Charm

  

  I’ve always been fascinated by the following as explained by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN):All matter around us is made of elementary... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Charm - In Search of Charm

  

  ‘In Search of Charm’ by Mary Young. This book should have been returned to Palatine Secondary School library in 1970. Oops, my mistake, but now that I’ve dug... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Jumble Hole Clough

  

  Some years ago, Adele and I on a grand day out from Blackpool ventured across the old county line between Lancashire and Yorkshire. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Jumble

  

  I can think of six second hand bookshops within an hour’s travel of where I live. Four of them are a delight and I have spent many happy hours browsing their... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fruit Tree

  

  It has to be Tangerine. Apples are awesome, bananas are brilliant, cherries are cute (fabulous blossom too), damsons are delicious, entawaks are exotic (look... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Vinyl Junkies

  

  For Christmas in 2025 my sister-in-law bought me a mug with the legend “It’s Not Hoarding if it’s Vinyl” emblazoned across it. She knows me well. It now stands... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fruit Tree

  

  When I moved into my previous house in Thornton Cleveleys it was the garden that sold me on the deal. It was an really ugly house, the kitchen was drab and... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fruit Tree

  

  Arboriculture, or the cultivation of fruit trees goes back to the Neolithic period and was developed, perhaps, around 6,000 BCE within the Fertile Crescent in... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fruit Tree - An Apple Tree on St Kilda

  

  It was one of those rare mornings where I didn’t need to be up early. A grandson had stayed with us recently, which meant early starts and walks to school in al... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Vinyl(s)

  

  In the beginning was the vinyl. Well, not quite at the dawn of recorded music. Originally, from the 1880s onwards, there were perforated paper rolls for... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Friends

  

  . Some come "with benefits", as in the euphemistically titled 2011 romantic comedy about casual relationships. They imply good times. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Vinyl

  

  When I was decorating my front room a few years ago I made the momentous decision to chuck all my vinyl LPs and singles. Taking them to the tip was hard both... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Procrastination

  

  A wise man once said "Don't put off until tomorrow something which can easily be pushed off into next week or even the one after." Ha ha ha. Well guess what I... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Humdinger

  

  I'd never heard the word before this week, let alone knew what it meant, but I figured if something is going to be worthy of being called a humdinger, then at... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Friends

  

  Back in 1865 a pharmacist by the name of James Lofthouse in Fleetwood was talking to three deep-sea fishermen but was having difficulty listening to what they... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Friends A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

  

  Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. We become connected by common interests or something happens to throw us together. I’m lucky to have long-lastin... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' February Open Mic Night

  

  Love actually - or not - the theme is not compulsory. There are 20 x 5-minute slots on offer at our February open mic night on Zoom.Sign up to read or just to... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Humdinger

  

  I cannot imagine any circumstance under which I would use the term Humdinger. The Oxford English says that it means ‘a remarkable or outstanding person or... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Robins

  

  Top birds, robins. They don't really have red breasts, though, more a shade of dark orange wouldn't you say? And this is their season, of course, entwined as... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Procrastination

  

  According to the Oxford English the word ‘Procrastination’ is derived from the Latin ‘procrastinare’ which translates into: the prefix pro-, 'forward', and the... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2026 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION