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• Suffrage

  

  Many people assume that ' suffrage' applies only to women. However it took a shocking war with the maiming and slaughter of thousands of men to finally give... Read more

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

• On Your Marks ... Please Vote.

  

  An awful lot has happened since Mrs May decided to go to the country and Parliament was dissolved. I can scarcely recall a worse month in my life. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Suffrage - Northern Grit

  

  Goodness me, that was a quick holiday. One moment I was sunning myself in the unexpected warmth of glorious South Uist and in the next blink I’m home at my desk. Read more

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

• Lonely Hearts

  

  The theme this week is lonely hearts. How fitting, then, that it coincides with all the hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Peppers... Read more

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

• In The Bag?

  

  Manchester Monday night - what a frightful blight on young lives; a city rocked in the wrong way. The response has been resilience, a positive bonding of many... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Suffer the Little Children - Manchester Monday

  

  As on other occasions recently, I find myself unable to write to theme for this week's blog. In fact I have been sitting here for over an hour trying to find a... Read more

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

• The Fibonacci Sequence

  

  Named after Fibonacci, also known as Leonardo of Pisa or Leonardo Pisano, Fibonacci numbers were first introduced in his Liber abaci in 1202. The son of a... Read more

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

• The Sequence Of Hatred and The Impact on Mental Health Sufferers

  

  I'm going to use this week's theme of sequences to explore what no body really tells you about OCD. Before I begin, let's nip the illusion that everyone who is... Read more

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

• Fabulous Fenugreek

  

  Your Saturday Blogger returns after a two-week hiatus. Blackpool Supporters' Trust claimed my time and energies in the lead up to the end of the football season. Read more

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

• Spice Up Your Life

  

  Where to begin? What are little girls made of? Well 'sugar and spice and all things nice' of course. Not boring old herbs - they are growing at the bottom of... Read more

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

• Herbs and Spices - Scarborough Fair

  

  Such beautiful, natural, autumnal colours when spices are placed together on the photo I’ve chosen. I confess, I’m not a very adventurous cook. Read more

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

• Herbs And Spices

  

  Despite - or more likely, because of - a lack of money in their early years of marriage, my mum was always a marvellous, inventive cook - we lived off the... Read more

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

• No Bottles Please.

  

  Originally I thought I'd not have time to write today as I'm off for a few days, but since I'm awake early , here goes. It's rather romantic and exciting to... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Message in a Bottle - Bacardi

  

  Bottle sorting. A smelly, sticky way to spend a few hours on weekend mornings and probably the dirtiest job I ever did in our pub. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Message in a Bottle

  

  Everything seemed simpler in the 1950s when I was growing up. In the summer holidays (which, incidentally, consisted of endless days of constant blue skies and... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Red Letter Days

  

  Aged 28 I was diagnosed, in Oxford, with Ulcerative Colitis, which would not respond to treatment and aged 30 surgery was suggested. However I didn't fancy the... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Red Letter Day - Celebrating 150 Years in Blackpool

  

  This is a very exciting year for The Imperial Hotel, Blackpool: on Thursday 22nd June, the most iconic seafront building will turn back the clock to celebrate... Read more

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

• Red Letter Day - Manchester 2004

  

  I can’t possibly write on the theme ‘Red Letter Day’ without mentioning The Moody Blues. Sorry if you’ve heard it all before and if you know me you will have ha... Read more

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

• Red Letter Day For The Feet

  

  When you have a family as large, as close and as long lived as mine is you're bound to have a fair few Red Letter Days (RLDs) along the way. One suffers, we... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Referred Growing Pains

  

  Let me think.... no, I don't recall ever experiencing growing pains. I remember going through a phase (don't ask me at what age - probably 5 or 6) where I... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION