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• 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

• The Family

  

  I was born in 1952, 21 months after my brother, and not long after the end of WW2, although I don’t think that registered till I was at least in my teens,... Read more

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

• Family - Ties That Bind Us

  

  I am fortunate to have been born into a medium-sized, close-knit family. My early childhood was filled with love and joy. For seven years I was the only... Read more

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

• Know Your Onions

  

  This might turn out to be more interesting than I first thought. To know your onions is an idiom which means to be knowledgeable about a subject (not necessaril... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Summer Solstice

  

  It falls to me to blog about superstitions on this, the longest day of the year, so what else would I regale you with but tales of summer solstice folklore and... Read more

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

• Superstition - Good Afternoon, Mr Magpie

  

  It was here again the other day. I heard it before I saw it, that horrible noise, like a distorted football rattle, then it swooped down from next door’s tree t... Read more

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

• 1-2-3-4

  

  Are we rolling? The given theme is Playing In The Band. Okay, I've done that, still have the t-shirts with the DeadBeats emblazoned across the front, and I'll... Read more

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

• Playing in the Band - Let's Rock

  

  I wish I had a talent for music. A proper talent, not just the piano grades that my father’s expense and my reluctance to learn got me. That piano teacher was... Read more

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

• I Can't Breathe

  

  These themes, although set six months in advance, seem to have had an uncanny knack recently of falling in step with topical news, this week's - oxygen - being... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION