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• 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

• Loneliness Limited

  

  Is anyone here a fan of the writings of the American author Kurt Vonnegut? He was quite fashionable in the 1960s and early 1970s but I think his cachet is not... Read more

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

• Loneliness

  

  You must excuse the lateness of my contribution today, for you see I've spent all day with a friend and I have been her friend. Having a friend, a pal, a buddy... Read more

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

• Loneliness - A Very British Affliction

  

  Hundreds of thousands of elderly people are lonely and cut off from society in this country, especially those over the age of 75. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Loneliness

  

  Most of us are a mixture of extrovert and introvert and I’m no exception. I love getting out and meeting people, chatting and laughing, but, equally, I... Read more

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

• Loneliness

  

  I couldn’t figure out what my late aunt really meant when, in her later years, she warned me that loneliness was a terrible thing. She had been a lively young... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Word! Feghoots!

  

  "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain." Well, it's certainly doing so with a vengeance at the moment. Hold that original idea (the Elocutioner's Song fro... Read more

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

• A Feghoot by Any Other Name ...

  

  I have to admit that when I read that this week's blog theme is Feghoots, I had no idea what it meant. Naturally I did some research and to my amazement, I... Read more

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

• Feghoots - A Pink Elephant and a Water Bottle

  

  This is not my own work, though I wish it was. I consider it to be well thought out and clever, and when I first heard it, some years ago, I couldn't stop... Read more

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