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• I Woke Up This Morning...

  

  I’ve always loved the Blues. The music, that is, not the mood, which I’ve experienced enough to know it’s not a love of mine. I’m not sure where my love of blue... Read more

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

• Simple Blues

  

  I must be suffering from Obsessive Blogging Disorder! It's just shy of midnight and I haven't had time to think, let alone write - but I don't want to shirk my... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Memories

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to my Friday blog. Well, I've scoured my paperwork but I can't find a theme for this week, so, I'll just play it by ear...as the... Read more

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

• Blues - I Have One Connotation and Need the Other.

  

  Blues noun plural noun: the blues 1. melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Star My Soul To Mend

  

  Yesterday saw First World War soldiers wandering the streets of Britain like ghosts from 100 years ago, back to the future. They drifted around singly and in... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Science Fiction - May the Life Force Be with You.

  

  All right - I know this is later than I usually post but life is pretty hectic at the moment. My family and other alien specimens have travelled form all corner... Read more

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

• Pirates

  

  I'm still reeling from the implications of the EU exit vote. It feels like we've walked the plank into infested waters! Funnily enough, I've been reading a... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shiver Me Timbers....and the Like....

  

  So "Pirates " is it you're after ? Let's think then....I liked Burt Lancaster as " The Crimson Pirate " ...."Believe all that you see, but only half of what... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• How to Talk Like a Pirate - Swashbuckling Frivolity.

  

  Ah ha me hearties - 'tis been bad sailin' this last tday or two. Foul squalling winds have scuppered me land-lubbin' rose bushes. There's petals strewn from her... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Run

  

  With a tumultuous week behind us and a momentous one in front of us in the run-up to the EU referendum, your Saturday Blogger feels impelled to voice an... Read more

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

• Many Meanings of Run

  

  This week's title is 'Run' . Well I'll be 'running' a friend back to my home on Friday, so therefore I'm writing this up on Tuesday...yes you've guessed it I'm... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Run - Only If I Am Being Chased.

  

  I don't run. Not for pleasure anyway. I like to walk to the very idea of jogging about on a hard pavement disturbs my equilibrium. I enjoy walking. Walking is... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Spring In His Step

  

  Two walking sticks hang forlornly on the banisters; a walking frame with wheels and padded seat is parked in the bay window. My dad, just turned ninety, sits... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Spring In The Step

  

  When I think of springing steps, I conjure up images of squirrels and the way they bound and flow so gracefully across the ground, tails rippling behind; or... Read more

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

• Spring in My Step

  

  I tend top be a person with a permanent "Spring in my Step "....which is very fortunate and makes itself known in my hobbies of dancing, ice skating and... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Spring in Your Step - Banish the Blues.

  

  I don't know about you but at this time of year, when the weather improves, I often develop a spring in my step. I dust down my summer wardrobe, stick a... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Espresso Bloggo!

  

  Beverages. Really? Who picks these weekly themes? Well, it's got to be coffee and it has to be Italian; Lavazza Qualita Rossa for preference. Read more

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

• Beverages - The Cocktail Generation

  

  In the 1950's, my father Freddie Robinson, having served for 5 years in India during WWII, became one of an elite group of service workers in this country. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Northern Soul

  It was always hard for me to fit in. I was different. I was the plain, bespectacled geeky girl sitting alone in class, eager to learn and irritated by some... Read more

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

• What Is Northern Soul?

  

  That sounds like the answer to a question on Jeopardy! (America's favourite quiz show, starring Alex Trebek) only what might the question be? A seagull blitzed... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION