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• Oscar Wilde's Poetic Pedigree.

  

  Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1853 - 1900) Irish poet, wit and dramatist studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and in 1878 won the Newdigate prize for hi... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Oscar Wilde - Come to My Party

  

  If I could host a gathering of people from bygone times, Oscar Wilde would be way up at the top of my guest list. I would sit him next to me for a good while... Read more

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

• Just One Slice

  

  What can I tell you about cake? I don't bake. I've been known to enjoy the odd piece of Battenburg (it's the marzipan) and I'll happily see off a seasonal hunk... Read more

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

• Cake - Baked With Love

  

  “This morning I resolved to bake A Mary Berry drizzle cake. Down your way the sun may sizzle, Round here there is heavy drizzle.” Pam Ayres, from Twitter We hav... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Saturday Sailing

  

  I've regaled you before, (regular readers of the Saturday blog), with stories of how I was born and brought up in West Africa; Nigeria to be exact in the... Read more

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

• Sailing - All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor

  

  ‘The big ships sail on the Alley Alley O, the Alley Alley O…’ That nursery rhyme always takes me back to the film version of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of... Read more

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

• Sailing

  

  I am a sailor. I am. At least I was. I still sail, just differently. A proper grown up now, conscious of everything that I do. A proper bore often. Sailing... Read more

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

• Stranger Than Fiction

  

  It was mad, bad and dangerous to know Lord Byron who once asserted that "truth is always stranger than fiction"; and Mark Twain who is supposed to have added th... Read more

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

• Strange But True

  

  At 2:10 pm on 5th December 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Strange but True - Amsterdam Funeral

  

  I was trying to find something different to fit in with the theme of Strange but True when I came across this, I think it was in a ‘100 Strange but True Facts’... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Spotlight

  

  What I like about this weekly blogging malarkey is the good prodding it gives one to delve into, mull over and then write (creatively, I hope) about something... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Being in the Spotlight

  

  From a young age I enjoyed being in the limelight. We, local children, devised back garden concerts and I recall singing "Tulips from Amsterdam" aged about 6,... Read more

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

• In the Spotlight.

  

  Did someone switch on a spotlight? Well just point me in the right direction. Some of my happiest memories have been made bang smack in the middle of a dance... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• In The Spotlight - Let Me Hide

  

  I prefer to watch the drama unfold, rather than have a part in it. Some things are impossible to avoid but as far as possible I keep out of the spotlight. Read more

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

• Yarn

  

  emerged blinking into the light of a cold March afternoon. She was flanked on either side by two soldiers whom she judged to be of an age with herself. Read more

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

• You Can Never Have Enough Yarn!

  

  I trained in Dress and Design at the "Do School" in Aberdeen, part of Robert Gordon Institute of Technology...now University. I'd been sewing since a child, as... Read more

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

• Ripping Yarns

  

  My father was a wonderful storyteller. He would entertain customers at his pubs with raucous tales of his adventures both as a young man growing up in pre WWII... Read more

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

• Yarn - A Lifetime of Knitting

  

  If you know me well enough, you will know that I spend a lot of my time knitting and crocheting. I love to spend a relaxing evening with a lap full of wool and... Read more

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

• La Belle Villanelle

  

  Every so often, just to keep us on our poetic toes (so to speak), we like to blog about a specific verse form. It's a while since we did so - the ballad was... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• My First Villanelle...

  

  Unlike many in the poetry group, I have no real knowledge of the structure of poems. So, when the subject of 'villanelle' appeared I was completely at a loss.... Read more

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