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• Short Story Week - Once Upon A Time...

  

  A theme of 'Short Story Week' and an opportunity to re-read my back catalogue, so to speak. I hope I'm not being self indulgent in sharing my short story from... Read more

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

• Love Among The Scatter Cushions

  

  When I first set eyes on this week's allotted theme, my spirits flagged. Cushion! It put me in mind of that popular radio panel game where contestants have to... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cushion - Creature Comforts

  

  My recent travels have included some out of the way places and destinations I may not have the opportunity to revisit. It has been important to me to collect... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moon In June Too

  

  What a happy few days in the jewel of the north, at least for those of a tangerine persuasion! Passion combined with principle wins out in the end. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moon In June

  

  When our two children were young, it was the era of the wonderful Nick Park Wallace and Gromit film animations. There were several entertaining exploits, but ou... Read more

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

• 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