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• The World According To Wes

  

  A movie-maker is a creator of worlds and my favourite contemporary movie-maker, by a celluloid mile, is the American director Wesley Wales Anderson. Read more

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

• Fade to Black

  I like films. I have an extensive DVD collection at home, but nothing quite beats being sat in a cinema as the plot unfolds before you with a bucket of popcorn... Read more

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

• Movies - On the Shoulders of Giants.

  

  Like everything else in the world, the movies have changed in the last hundred years. Since celluloid was first animated to produce cine film, new technologies... Read more

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

• At The Movies - Lancashire Dead Goods Blog Monday 29/02/2016 by Christo Heyworth

  AT THE MOVIES Going to the pictures is something embedded in me since infancy by Sonia Livesey who is about eight years older than me and who was trusted... Read more

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

• At the Movies

  Well, I've been singing " Saturday night at the movies, who cares what picture you see, when you're hugging with your baby on the balcony ? " ever since I saw... Read more

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

• This Was My Blackpool In '68

  

  Sometime in the mid ‘60s my family moved to Blackpool. My parents were in the licenced trade and the opportunity to have a pub on Blackpool Prom was their... Read more

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

• When Elephants Strolled The Sands

  

  'Lost Blackpool' is the theme this week - and I'm resisting the temptation to lament the sad decline of our local football club. Read more

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

• A Very Lost Blackpool

  With the demolition of many of the town's architectural gems from years gone by, in the name of "Progress" (which is laughably also the town's motto), there is... Read more

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

• Lost Blackpool - a Walk Through Memory.

  

  It's an interesting theme. I was thrilled by an exhibition of photographs at Stanley Park Visitor's Centre during summer 2015. Read more

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

• Lost Blackpool

  

  I was born just after World War II and lived just off Westcliffe Drive in Little Layton The joke amongst conductors on the Corporation buses which travelled to... Read more

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

• Talking Funny

  Some coincidence, given this week's theme of dialects, that we have just been paying our last respects to Stanley Holgate, local Lancashire dialect poet, who... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Monday Regular Blog: DIALECTS (Monday 15th. Feb 2016)

  COME JOIN THE CIRCUS Sorry that my promise to occupy the Monday "blogspot" (which Gmail keeps on correcting to "bloodspot") was not kept in the GENERATION GAP... Read more

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

• Dialects. Use Them - Or Lose Them.

  

  Th'all 'ave to forgive me Lanky dialect today. Tha' knows I'm a sandgrown 'un wi' watter in me boots but lately, I've bin a bit of a clothead, forgettin' me... Read more

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

• Dialects.

  This week's topic is " Dialects " ....something that I find particularly interesting, possibly since I've lived in a variety of different places. Read more

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

• Mind The Gap?

  

  This week's theme is the generation gap, or 'institutional age segregation' as it is now referred to somewhat fancifully by sociologists. Let's stick with... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Generation Gap? More Like Techno-overload.

  

  I have never really acknowledged a generation gap. My parents were pretty open-minded. They had to be. There were four of us born between 1947 and 1958. My Mum... Read more

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

• Generation Gap

  This week's title set me thinking on a subject that I haven't given much thought to. Most probably because I have few links with younger people. Read more

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

• A Train Called Time

  A Train Called Time When I first heard the theme for the week, my thoughts immediately turned to Johnny Cash. Folsom Prison Blues is a classic song and the... Read more

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

• Train Keeps A Rolling...

  

  Here's a lot of stuff about trains and bogeys and a poem about the bogey man. 'Train Keeps A Rolling' is a very famous song that's been covered by many artists... Read more

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

• Train Keeps Rolling - Its a Genetic Circuitry Thing.

  

  I am having a hectic week. You know how it goes, a million and one things to do and really not much time to write. I drive everywhere these days and find it... Read more

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