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• Stripes

  This day's topic, STRIPES, takes me to my earliest scanning and reading of comics, and the military characters featured there. STRIPES always signified... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Zen Stripes

  

  Unlike Magical Mr Mistoffelees, I couldn't produce a cat poem right out of the poetical hat to order the other week (so ended up writing about catsup instead);... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Have You Earned Yours?

  Society. We're a funny bunch aren't we?! Making rules about what is acceptable and what isn't. When it comes to laws that's fine ... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Stripes

  

  I have to admit that I was stuck. The theme this week is ‘stripes’ and the only thing that sprung to mind was the uniforms given to internees at concentration... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moments That Changed the World

  

  It's been a bad day and this is a weighty theme - moments that changed the world. I've given it considerable thought and I've chosen that moment at precisely... Read more

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

• A Change of Persective.

  

  What sort of moments changed the world? They are often catastrophic. Sometimes natural, perhaps a huge meteorite hits the earth and causes a dust storm that... Read more

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

• Events That Changed the World

  In the modern world and due to media coverage we are all more aware of events that have, and indeed are , changing the world. Imagine the coverage that might... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bells

  It's a pleasure to be asked to write this week's Lancashire Dead Good Poets Blog, on the subject of Bells. Looking at previous weeks blogs these are big shoes t... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bells

  

  Your Saturday blogger comes bouncing back like a sun-kissed Tigger from his Kefalonian sojourn, rejuvenated (lovely word) by a week of late-summer... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Favourite Bells ...

  

  Looking South East from Bishopthorpe On the topic of bells this week, I became rather wistful and started to yearn for the village in which I grew up near... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Locks (Yellow Hair)

  

  As soon as I saw the topic for this week's blog - Locks - I thought of Sandy Denny (pictured below)and the song Banks Of The Nile with its line "Oh but I'll... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lovely Locks?

  Hair. We all have it. Some love theirs, some don't. Some just plain don't know what to do with it, like me! Having always been a tomboy, from the age of around... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A V 4 R B - Love Locks

  

  Since the early Noughties, a new fashion has been gaining popularity in Europe. It is causing distress in many council chambers, especially those in major... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Locks

  

  -- no not curly ones, nor ones that turn with the aid of a key but ones on canals. I used to live outside Oxford and we went boating on the Thames. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Umbrellas Last Stand

  

  As their shadowy name suggests, umbrellas were originally devised as structures intended to provide protection against the sun for fair ladies; (ditto parasols). Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Mum Calls Them "Gamps" ...... ;-)

  I've always loved the old style umbrella's, but then I'm a vintage kind of gal. I like parasols too and think it's a shame they died out fashion wise. I would... Read more

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

• Pennies from Heaven.

  

  If you are living in a green place, filled with trees, verdant pastures and arable, productive farm land then you have been lucky enough to have enjoyed rain.... Read more

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

• Umbrella - Tuesday's Blog

  

  Sunday - - in a thunderstorm. Well, it seems appropriate that I wrote this while thunder cracked overhead and lightning streaked the sky. The gulls too were... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tangerine - Follow Your Dream

  

  I was born and grew up in West Africa, 3,000 miles - two continents, one desert and an ocean - away from my nearest English League team. That would probably hav... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Follow Your Dreams

  I'm away on holiday this week. So I'll just leave this here ... ;-) https://youtu.be/UkekqVPIc2M It's one of my favourite songs by them. Enjoy and I'll see you... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION