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• La Plume De Ma Tante

  

  The title is just about the sum total of my knowledge of French! Rather a useless phrase I think. However it refers to the 'quill ' of my aunt...an early use fo... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Feathers

  

  I love wild birds and as usual at this time of year I am feeding them, getting them used to coming into the garden in anticipation of the RSPB's Big Garden... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Feathers - Superstitious? Me?

  

  I knew that the small, white feather on the bedroom floor had escaped from the duvet as I made the bed, but for a fleeting moment I was happy to think it was a... Read more

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

• Windfarming For Dummies

  

  I've deliberately chosen an ambiguous and provocative title for this Saturday's blog on the topic of wind farms. Poets are allowed - perhaps even expected - to... Read more

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

• Windfarms

  

  'Dong' is set to build super wind turbines off the coast between Heysham and Barrow and what an interesting and informative leaflet they produced, providing... Read more

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

• Wind Farms - Illness and Holidays

  

  There’s nothing like some morning sunshine and a glimpse of blue sky to raise my spirits and wake up some dormant energy. At least, enough energy to leave the... Read more

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

• Little White Lies

  

  It's been a lean old time for the Dead Good blog. No one has posted on the theme of Little White Lies all week. They've had perfectly good reasons for not... Read more

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

• Resolve

  

  For the first Saturday Blog of 2018, the theme is resolve - how predictable is that? New Year resolutions? I haven't made any. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Resolve - New Horizons

  

  Happy New Year to one and all, let’s see what unfolds in 2018. When I was younger, much younger and naïve, I looked upon New Year as a new start with... Read more

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

• Lower The Safety Curtain

  

  down on '2017 - The Year'. For good or bad, that play is done - and whether you're sad to see it end or are still sitting there stunned, it's time to get up... Read more

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

• Theatre Is Life

  

  … Theatre is my life, my reason to get up in the morning. Performing consumes my thoughts daily, like the comedic panto character who constantly bumbles around... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pudding

  

  The festive season is almost upon us once again, so it's quite fitting that this week's blog theme is pudding! There will be a lot of it going down in flames... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Last Desserts - Wheel in the Trolley!

  

  I am not a big pudding fan. We had too many when I was younger. Thick sticky suet puddings were my Grandmother's speciality: Sticky apple dumpling, roly-poly,... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pudding Moments

  

  Growing up in Canada, pudding was something very specific. It started with grabbing from the pantry a small cardboard box featuring the Jell-O logo and... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Winter Ghost

  

  I was reminiscing with someone this afternoon about the 'terrible winter' of 1962/3. He'd been given a bike for Christmas but wasn't able to ride it for weeks... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Long Nights, Time to Dwell...

  

  . I've been going through a rough time over the past few weeks. It's kept me indoors, away from hillwalking, upsetting my system, upsetting the balance of my... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Winter Ghosts - Just Beyond the Veil.

  

  The winter months are a reflective time for me - tinged with sadness. The long dark nights make me want to snuggle down early with a good book. Too much time... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Winter Ghosts

  

  It may be the fault of that famously flimsy veil between the worlds of the living and the dead which is reputed to exist over Hallowe'en. Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Winter Ghosts - Nearly Christmas

  

  Christmas is taking shape. I’ve made the cake, bought some but not all gifts, made food plans and put the tree up. I loved the looks of delight on the faces of... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Winter Ghosts

  

  Ghosts in horror films are seen as scary, horrifying, supernatural beings… When really I think they are lost souls searching for a purpose. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION