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• 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

• 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