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• Running Sacred

  

  The title of this Saturday's blog is meant to induce a double-take. Yes indeed, running not scared but sacred - though I have to confess that it's not an... Read more

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

• Sacred Locations

  

  My late husband had a great love of history and archaeology, which he passed to me. Don't get me wrong, as an avid map reader I'd always had an interest in not... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sacred - Auntie's Lord Jesus

  

  A plaster figurine of Our Lord Jesus stood on my auntie’s bedside table for as far back as I can remember. As a child, he fascinated me. I could look, but not... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Box

  

  Alongside great inventions in time, such as the wheel, the humble box has also stood the test of time, and is all too much taken for granted in today’s society. Read more

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

• Box To Box

  

  The title is not a footballing reference, despite it being a frequently-uttered sporting cliché. It might well have been appropriate in view of tonight's... Read more

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

• Boxes

  

  I use boxes of all shapes and materials as a means of storing things. Sewing items are kept in large plastic stacking boxes, buttons are kept in plastic sweet... Read more

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

• There's Something About a Box

  

  There’s something about a box. I think it’s the excitement of wondering what’s within; the anticipation as you lift the lid and peer in. Read more

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

• Jetsam

  

  This week, A Tale of Misery Lack of Imagination; of enterprise betrayed by incompetence, political expedience, inter-firm and international rivalry and plain... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Jets - Comet Or Jumbo?

  

  It was a very grown-up thing to be doing, again I was reminded. Perhaps my mother expected me to ‘kick off’, to use modern parlance, though I never had done... Read more

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

• Saturday Symbolism

  

  I'm not sure that symbolism (the theme for Saturday blog #225) is any sexier a subject than last week's flowerpots topic - and it looks as though that's the... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Down Among The Flowerpots

  

  Flowerpots! Not the most prepossessing of topics, I'll grant you, but let's see where we can go with this one. I've always preferred proper terracotta (literall... Read more

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

• Flower-Pot - Things We Love

  

  There is a special flower-pot in my garden. It hasn’t always been a flower-pot and it is a fairly recent addition to my green-fingered efforts. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 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