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• 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

• Northern Soul

  

  Hello and welcome to Friday's contribution to the blog. I will apologise first for the shortness of my piece, but I'm off again on my travels on Friday. Going... Read more

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

• Ragbag Square

  

  Welcome to Saturday's Ragbag blog, a collection of loosely related musings on that theme. To begin with, some random things I have learned this week: - The brai... Read more

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

• Rag Bag....three Meanings....which to Choose ?

  

  Hello and welcome to my now "Friday" contribution to the blog. It takes some getting used to changing one's routine! Anyway I digress... This week's title is "... Read more

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

• Rag Bag - a Joy Forever.

  

  Okay, go and collect a box of tissues. This is going to be a little emotional. After all we all need a good old cry sometimes. Okay, are you sitting comfortably... Read more

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

• Jackson In Extraction

  

  Jackson Pollock, a suitable case for treatment. I finally caught up with a major retrospective of the American painter's work last year, having been chasing... Read more

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

• Treatment

  This week's theme is " Treatment". This may pertain to medical intervention, or how we regard or respect other people, animals or the environment. Read more

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

• Treatment - There May Be an Alternative.

  

  OK Huston, we have a problem. The brain tells us that something is wrong. The brain feels the symptoms. The body can only know that it is in pain because we hav... Read more

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

• Death By Chocolate

  

  I think a little levity is in order today, after weeks of solid Shakespeare (good though he is) and worry over the fate of a less substantial Blackpool FC (bad... Read more

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

• Chocolate - a Millenium in the Making.

  

  The Mayans of Central America are believed to be the first to discover cocoa as early as 900 AD. They learned that the beans inside the cocoa pods could be... Read more

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