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• Growing Pains

  

  Some say that " growing pains" are a figment of imagination. For me they were real and very physically aching. I remember coming down stairs, having been woken... Read more

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

• Growing Pains - Our Back Bedroom

  

  On Saturday morning I was upstairs in the spare back bedroom doing some ironing. Whoever is in charge of programme scheduling on BBC Radio 2 has shifted Sounds... Read more

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

• Growing Pains - They Run In the Family

  

  There are two types of growing pains, as far as I'm concerned. There are the well known physical pains that children suffer from as they try to keep up with... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Closely Encountered Clerihews

  

  Clerihews! What on earth? you may well ask... and several of you have. If this week's theme has proved one thing, it is that very few have ever encountered a... Read more

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

• Clerihews...I Never Knew!

  

  I confess to not knowing what a "Clerihew" was. So after reading some of this week's contributions I looked it up. Interesting and just my type of ' thing'. Read more

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

• Clerihews - Don't Lose Your Head!

  

  Ah the clerihew. I had a brief encounter on an OCNW 'B' Unit course in creative writing in 2007. For one poetry assignment in poetic form, I applied my small... Read more

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

• Clerihews - Just For Laughs

  

  With thanks to Edmund Clerihew Bentley for this form of light-hearted poetry. I hope my efforts here raise a smile. They may not stick exactly to his rules,... Read more

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

• Towie!

  

  Apologies upfront to any junk media addicts who might have been expecting a blog about reality tv, being famous for being famous, or the tedious excesses of... Read more

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

• Ignorance - a Constant Source of Embarrassment

  

  The older I get, the more I realise, with quiet despair, how many things have passed me by in life. I thought I was a woman of the world. Read more

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

• The Road Less Travelled.. ,

  I'd only been abroad twice, before I was widowed. They were a week in the Rhine Valley and a weekend in Bologne ...somewhere roundabout 1986. Yet I'd always... Read more

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

• An Idiot Abroad - Keep an Open Mind.

  

  I have travelled abroad since I was 8 years old. First trip was only to Belgium with family - we flew to Ostend and had a great time at The White Horse Inn. Read more

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

• An Idiot Abroad - Boots In Manhattan

  

  It wasn’t my intention to be an idiot abroad. It’s never my intention to be an idiot anywhere but things happen sometimes and the only way forward is to go... Read more

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

• A Pair of Idiots Abroad

  

  When our children were small and we had very little spare money we used to pack the rusty old Sierra to the roof, squash the children in the back like... Read more

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

• Wordpool

  

  For anybody curious about the theme of the blog, it was chosen in deference to Blackpool's Festival Of Written Word which has been hosted by Blackpool Arts ... Read more

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

• Turn of Events - Changing the Course of a Life

  

  My Dad at about the time he became a Bevin Boy I've written before about how I believe in fate - or chance - whatever you want to call it, so this week's blog... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Turn Of Events

  

  Sometimes these blogs almost write themselves (if you know what I mean). At the beginning of the week I was trying to figure out how I would interpret Turn Of... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Murder Etc....

  

  I have just returned from the Lake District, so haven't had time to think about this week's ( now somewhat ) apt subject. Briefly I was concerned , as my son... Read more

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

• A Turn of Events - Murder, Mayhem and Madness.

  

  I wasn't going to write this week. Couldn't really separate one turn of events from another. I suppose that, now I that I am well into my third-term, (my... Read more

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

• Turn of Events - Roehampton, 1971

  

  In my mid-teens, I loved going to London to stay with my aunt. Often, the whole family would go by car, but my favourite trips were the ones I made alone, on th... Read more

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

• The Healing Powers of Cheese

  

  As a family, we have always loved cheese. Of us all, my dad is probably the biggest fan, waxing lyrical at the sight of a Stinking Bishop or a dark veined... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION