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• Thank You For The Music

  

  Apart from The Billy Cotton Band Show on a Sunday afternoon and Children’s Favourites on a Saturday morning I don’t remember a lot of music being played during... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Music - Saved by the Music

  

  “If music be the food of love, play on…” Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare. Lots of us have an ‘Our Song’ or a piece of music which is meaningful and special,... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sails Into The Wind

  

  To be honest, I'm surprised it wasn't the Greeks who invented the windmill, that 'sails into the wind' mechanism for converting a force of nature into rotationa... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Windmills - Rhyming in My Mind

  

  I was washing glasses in our pub, hidden away in the ‘still room’ on my regular Friday night and Saturday night stint during the busy Illuminations, singing... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Still Life?

  

  For fact fans, brief encounter - the theme of today's blog - most famous for being a 1945 David Lean film starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard with a... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Brief Encounter with Sadie Trotter

  

  Whenever I hear the words, ‘Brief Encounter,’ my mind leaps (like many others’ I’m sure) to the film of the same name. A railway station cafe, a meeting of... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Spring Fling

  

  Spring has sprung (sort of). It’s still freezing here in St Anne’s! Hopefully warmer days are coming. This poem was inspired by a young women who I watched on... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Verging On Vernal

  

  It is supposed that all poets like to write about flowers, even bad ones - flowers that is, not poets. As Saturday's Dead Good Blog prepares to celebrate the... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Spring....but Has It Really Sprung ?

  

  I don't know anyone who doesn't look forward to Spring. It's a fickle season though as it seldom decides when it's actually going to become that milder time tha... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Spring - Hello Sunshine

  

  At last, the long awaited hint of spring sunshine is here. I don’t care that it shows up how much my windows need cleaning or draws attention to dusty... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wtrmln

  

  Welcome to Saturday's dead refreshing blog...all about watermelons actually. Citrullus lanatus, to give the watermelon its botanical name, is thought to have... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Watermelon - Business Trip, 1984

  

  The first time I ate watermelon I was astonished to find it so cool, refreshing and thirst-quenching. I was in my late twenties at a motorway service station... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Summit?

  

  Ever one to strive to avoid the obvious, the Saturday Blog in tackling the theme of summit will make no more than passing reference to mountain peaks or... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Summit..climb Every Mountain Or Not ?

  

  I've been hillwalking since aged 8. My parents took it up at the same time, so it was a family pastime. With a hiking club, we did indeed attain some summits,... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Summit - Per Ardua Ad Alta

  

  Per ardua ad alta Our school motto was embossed on the shield shaped badge pinned to our hats, embroidered on the top pockets of blazers and printed boldly on... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Kapow!

  

  Welcome to Saturday Blog # 218, struggling to explore facets of Power Energy. If you're pro-Brexit you might almost stop reading now - though I always think... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Renewable Energy.

  

  I'm an advocate for renewable energy...not in a large way you understand, just purely a personal view. When we had our large house in Buckie we heated it with... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• An Empty Vessel

  

  I didn't nominate it, but I thought this was a theme rich in promise. Unfortunately, it seems I'm blogging alone this week. Ah well. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• It's Not Orange...

  

  ...it's Tangerine.* That has been the predominant colour in the jewel of the north on this glorious 9th March, dubbed 'Homecoming Saturday' for thousands of... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• All Colours, Especially Purple

  

  My View as I Write this Post When I volunteered to do some more guest writing for the DGP and received the list of topics, the first title that came up was... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION