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• Ask The Right Question And You Get The Right Answer

  

  When I perform today's poem I always preface it by saying that when I was a kid there were plenty of protest songs on the radio. Now there are none so I wrote... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Answers - Who Am I?

  

  Over the last few evenings I’ve been searching my ancestry for possible answers. I was able to confirm to another family member that the details he’d passed on... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Weird Little Creations

  

  Dolls - heck, what am I supposed to write about you? I know you can inspire fierce and lasting devotion among humankind but I've never owned one, never played... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dolly

  

  Here we are again. That time of year when I start to notice just how few chunky knits I have in my wardrobe. For someone who grumbles about the "cold night... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Wedding of The Painted Doll

  

  Let me take you back to a time of glamour and social revolution. It is the end of WW1. Many young men have died on the battlefields of Europe: devastating... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Suzy

  

  My first born was a little bundle of soft, pink joy. She had a mass of curly blonde hair, a rather serious face and eyes that refused to close at bedtime despit... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dolls - Meet Janice

  

  My lovely big doll, Janice lives in the attic. Propped up between an old filing cabinet and boxes of Christmas stuff, she manages to stay upright and fix her... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dolls

  

  I was 33 when I acquired my first house. It was built in the 1950’s and in a 1930’s Art Deco style. It had three bedrooms, a bathroom, a drawing room, dining... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Unleafing Stanley Park

  

  In a properly ordered universe I would have been at St. James' Park (home of Exeter City) this afternoon supporting Blackpool in the FA Cup, but this is not a... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Park

  

  So just to confuse everyone. When I moved back to Scotland after a 20 year absence I gradually got used to rehearing phrases long forgotten. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• There’s Something About a Park

  

  Broomfield Park circa 1988 There’s something about a park. When I was very little, the local park captured a tiny corner of my heart without me even knowing. No... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Life Scares Me!

  

  I love life but sometimes it creeps me out, the unknown lurking around the corner. I'm scared of many things but not the conventional sort of scary things that... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Really Scares Me...

  

  ...is the realisation that this is my 200th Saturday Blog! Man, that's four years hard labour at the blogface with a fortnight off each summer for Greek... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Scaredy, Scaredy Custard...

  

  I recall the title phrase as a little ditty sung by schoolchildren in my youth. I'm not sure why the custard bit is included ? I'm not frightened by... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Really Scares Me?

  

  I have a fridge magnet that declares "You can't scare me - I have children," and it has more or less been my life mantra. I left my husband when the children... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Really Scares Me...

  

  I wrote a whole paragraph about how I’m not easily scared. Then I sat and thought for a minute and realised it was totally untrue. I scrubbed the paragraph. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Really Scares Me - It's The Dark!

  

  What really scares me? Well, apart from mundane worries about growing old, having enough money to live on and what the future holds for the next generations, I... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dandelion Clocks

  

  Ever one to avoid the obvious, I thought I'd blog about dandelions - and their clocks - on this last day of British Summer Time. Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Clocks - Piano Lessons

  

  I longed to be able to play the piano like Russ Conway, or like my father’s friend, Joe who often played the old upright at the far end of the vault in the pub... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Connoisseur Of Loneliness

  

  In 1984 there was a young girl, just after her tenth birthday in a boarding school in Bengaluru in the state of Karnataka. Her family over three thousand... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION