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• Train Keeps Rolling

  

  Well the Flying Scotsman does keep rolling as shown recently during trials in Lancashire. WOW ! Now, I've travelled on this record breaking locomotive in the... Read more

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

• Labour Of Love - Paul Kantner RIP

  

  Once again events have overtaken the original intention for this week's blog. The untimely death on Thursday night of Paul Kantner, founding member of my... Read more

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

• Labour - Enforced Euphemism.

  

  I believe in the power of language, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. In recent years I have been shocked by the frequent use of euphemistic... Read more

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

• Labour

  

  My take on "Labour " - and not the political party ,which in my mind has no resemblance to the true meaning of the word. Anyway my Grandfather was a dockside... Read more

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

• Let's Get Metaphysical

  

  I've swapped the gym for the metagym today, and a bout of heavy poetics. To some, they're The Magnificent Seven; to others, they're The Hateful Eight;... Read more

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

• Metaphysical - Metaphorically Speaking.

  

  I think I need to offer a little explanation of my dilemma this week, dear reader. Every three months or so, the Dead Good bloggers are asked to contribute... Read more

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

• Must Try Harder!

  

  This week's theme is Must Try Harder and so you're in for a helping of Blackpool footballing folklore - but first, congratulations to the team, who apparently... Read more

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

• Must Try Harder - Sometimes You Just Have to Leave.

  

  I have to say that I have always been bright. I had the advantage of being the youngest child with three older siblings. I was taught to read long before I... Read more

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

• Must Try Harder

  

  So this week's theme is "Must try harder "...a stock phrase like " can do better " , these must have appeared on innumerable report cards over the centuries ! Read more

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

• Oriental

  by Colin Davies Sometimes when I present my work people look at me strange. They like what I do but it seems to scare them that I'm able to think of such... Read more

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

• Tea and Oranges

  

  I'm going for a minimalist approach this week, in true oriental mode, by posting something simple and elegant.. Kudos to all who spotted that the blog's title... Read more

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

• Oriental - Turning Japanese.

  

  Japan is still on my list of places to visit. I find Japanese art fascinating and was very fortunate to see an exhibition of work by Katsushika Hokusai at... Read more

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

• Oriental

  

  I want to tell you a story...... We moved to Cleveleys in 2006, having left a very large cliff top house in the north of Scotland. This house had a ghost ( of... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bless You, Enid Blyton!

  

  The first story I ever wrote was my own version of a fairy tale, loosely based on The Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood. It was written in my best... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Be More Book

  

  I love books, have done ever since I can remember - which stretches back to a time before I was able to read for myself. I can still remember (aged 3+) looking... Read more

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

• Literary Merit: Adventure Beckons.

  

  I am the youngest child of four, by a gap of seven years and born into an extrovert, bustling environment. My eldest brother played rugby and swam for County; m... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Literary Merit

  

  Season's greetings to my readers...I wonder how many there are ? When at Primary school Friday afternoons I was sent round the classrooms telling stories. I mad... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Family Gathering

  c) C J Heyworth December 2015 (with apologies for lateness and brevity) As children we get used to family gatherings to celebrate public events (The... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Alice's Adventures in Sunderland

  

  Today - Boxing Day - is traditionally the date on which pantomimes (fun for all the family) commence. The convention doesn't strictly apply anymore, it seems. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Birds of a Feather: A Family Gathering.

  

  My family are far and wide, all over the globe now. My eldest brother lives in Somerset and his two boys have settled in London and Halifax Nova Scotia. My... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION