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• Childhood Secrets - Dreadful Child

  

  It took ages to pluck up the courage to tell my mother that I was being picked on and bullied by my supposed ‘best friend’. The tears came before I got any word... Read more

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

• To Magnify A Candle's Brightness...

  

  It's another lovely sunny Saturday evening on the Fylde coast and daylight will probably prevail until after ten tonight. Once darkness arrives, the electric... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Candlelight - Be Careful

  

  I have nothing against candlelight. I find it very pleasant, especially in a restaurant, with a hearty Italian meal, a red checked table cloth, a brilliant... Read more

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

• Candlelight - Power Cuts

  

  That’s Wimbledon over and a hope for two British champions in the same tournament is on hold. There’s something romantic about candlelight. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Image

  

  I would have expected Image to be a popular theme among Dead Good bloggers, wide open to interpretation. Not so, it seems - and I fly the blogging flag alone... Read more

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

• Upheaval

  

  It's shaping up to be a peerless beauty of a July day in the jewel of the north, sky of blue and sea of green (etc). Coffee is brewing, I've watered the tomato... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Upheaval..

  

  I've just returned from a pretty hectic day of poetry reading and listening. It seems lately that my life is in constant upheaval. Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Upheaval - New Beginnings.

  

  We moved as a family, for the first time when I was four years old, from a small family house in Blackpool to a great rambling public house in St Helens. At tha... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Upheaval - Moving House

  

  My father’s job meant that we moved house a lot in my younger days. Sometimes, to me, it seemed like we had just got settled and we were off again. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sir Owain and The Tangerine Knight

  

  The blog theme this week? Balladry. My initial reaction? "Oh b*ll*cks!" I've only ever composed one ballad in my time and that was way back in school days,... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ballads and Folk Songs..

  

  I enjoy traditional folk songs, set as ballads. Those tales..true stories from beginning to end and most often with a moral. Often tragic, adventurous, depictin... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Love Writing Ballads.

  

  If you research what a poetic ballad really is, you will discover that they are usually written about and dedicated to a heroic figure. Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2017 CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Balladry - John, Yoko and Lorna

  

  Who would ever really want to be a young teenager again? I look fondly back on those years, well, the good bits, and skip right past the embarrassing bits. Ther... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Beaches

  

  ! Sand, sea, warm skin, days of freedom and fun. Your Saturday Blogger has a few favourite places on earth and most of them feature a beach somewhere in the... Read more

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

• We're Having a Heat Wave - Time for The Beach.

  

  This week I am very happy for a number of reasons. Firstly, my first born has gone on holiday with his mates and I am free of his Friday night washing load for... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Beach - South Shore

  

  I was nine years old when my family moved to Blackpool. Dad took a pub on South Promenade and my playground was the stretch of beach from the north side of Sout... Read more

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

• Trees

  

  In the wake of the violent attacks in Manchester and London and that fiasco of a General Election, I was quite looking forward to writing about trees this week ... Read more

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

• Trees - They Are Our Only Hope.

  

  I love trees. I could tell you all about the five trees in my garden and thoroughly enjoy the process of blogging this week. I could tell you all about the... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2017 CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Trees - Bats and a Red Dragon

  

  When the children were young we spent summer holidays in Pembrokeshire. We were fortunate to have the use of a static caravan owned by family. It was situated o... Read more

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

• Suffrage In A Time Of Arrogance...

  

  Who doesn't think this is another fine mess the ruling elite has landed us in? As one European commentator so wittily observed on Friday morning, the UK has... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION