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• Ink Monitor

  

  Seeing the photo that Adele posted reminded me of being an ink monitor...surely a precarious task that 'Health and Safety ' would quite frown upon today. Then... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Stationery - the Written Word.

  

  I wonder... will there still be paper and pens when my Grand-daughter reaches my age? Will people even remember how to hand write a letter? I remember my... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Trying To Get Animated

  

  I grew up in the fifties and sixties when animated films - or cartoons - were all the rage. I must have been the only child who didn't like them. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Felix/Catus

  

  Apologies if you're getting served up an overdo of moggy blogs this week. The idea to run with the theme of animation came after several Dead Good Poets attende... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Animation

  I love animations, especially early Walt Disney films. The expertise and dedication required to produce the thousands of artistic drawings and paintings require... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Animation - in the Beginning.

  

  Animation, the art of making inanimate objects appear to move. Animation is an artistic impulse that long predates film. History’s first recorded animator is... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gardens

  

  I have a bit of a love hate relationship with gardens. I love sitting in them, hate working in them. That's not always been the case. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Aphids & Aphorisms

  

  When I think of gardens in the abstract, I have in mind Monet's various sumptuous impressionist renderings of his grounds at Giverny, or certain songs of Van... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• English Country Gardens.

  

  If I were to copy Maria's song from The Sound of Music and list a few of my favourite things, the top three would be - dance, music and an English garden. I... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tomorrow Never Comes!

  

  Preface: For once I was prepared, organised and poised over the keyboard. I wrote the piece, found an appropriate picture, composed a poem (of sorts) and... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Revolver (Tomorrow Never Knows)

  

  It was fifty years ago today... ... ... ...at the beginning of August 1966 that the Beatles released 'Revolver' upon an expectant world. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tomorrow Never Knows - an Apology.

  

  OK I have to hold up my hands. This is an apology, an attempt at redemption and a catch up. I was missing in action last week, barely finding the time to do muc... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sand, Sea, Spray!

  

  "Sand, Sea, Spray!" is the theme of the week, in deference to an arts festival going on in Blackpool at the moment. By rights, it should have been a jolly... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sun, Sea and Spray....

  

  Well I experienced all three when I lived in my clifftop house in Buckie. Although the house faced north, in the summer the sun virtually came right round and o... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Obsidian

  

  Ha, this week's blog has to address change. There's obviously lots of scope here, against a background of significant, even seismic, upheavals in Britain's... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Change

  

  Well. it's been a week of change....we've experienced the hottest weather ...up to 35' in places. I recorded 30' in my front hall...with all doors and windows... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Metamorphosis - It Just Happens.

  

  As a dancer, I have always been fascinated by transformation. In many ballets and children's stories, beautiful creatures are really humans under evil spells,... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mananas!

  

  I'm down in London for a few days: Saturday at the Football Supporters' Summit at Wembley Stadium (talking about 'Change through Scrutiny, Pressure and... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bananas...what Do I Know About Bananas ?

  

  Exactly as I say in the title....what do I know about bananas ? So I put on my thinking cap.... I recall a general knowledge question from school, " How many... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Yes - Soon We May Have No Bananas.

  

  The banana is an edible fruit, botanically a berry, produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries,... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION