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• 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

• Chocolate

  This week's title is 'chocolate'. Well it's never really interested me to that extent. I was diagnosed as lactose intolerant almost 40 years ago so milk... Read more

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

• Tragedy

  

  I think I first really got into tragedy when I was about nine or ten, perhaps even younger. I used to stay at my nan’s flat some weekends and she’s take me... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ye Moste Tragickal Historie of Blackpule FC

  

  The last of our trio of Shakespeare-related themes is Tragedy. Herewith the sole surviving excerpt from a long-lost work, Ye Moste Tragickal Historie of... Read more

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

• A Tragic Year

  As Adele quite rightly pointed out yesterday, a tragedy is an event that causes suffering, destruction and/or distress. Quite frankly, for many people, this yea... Read more

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

• Tragedy - Greek Goats Love to Climb Trees.

  Tragedy - noun (plural tragedies) 1 - An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe: a... Read more

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

• History

  

  My bookshelves groan with the evidence of a full and varied education in History and English Literature coupled with a love of reading.Much of my free time... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• History

  

  Part two of this Shakespeare mini-series devotes itself to history. Here's a brief one about the man himself. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is generally... Read more

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

• History - Living Names in the Here and Now.

  

  This week our theme is history. I have to confess to you that as soon as I hear the word, my mind springs back to school days, to Miss Swift and endless... Read more

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

• History

  As a schoolchild I was not at all interested in history as I found it altogether boring . It seemed that I was expected to just remember a list of dates, and wh... Read more

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

• Comedy

  

  When it comes to the funny side of life, stuff that makes us laugh, nothing, it seems, creates a bigger comedic splash than a good dollop of lavatory humour,... Read more

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

• Comedy - You Should Have Been There.

  

  Have you ever had one of those moments when you quite literally had to hold your sides, you were laughing so hard. One of those hysterical moments. You know wha... Read more

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

• Comedy

  Well we all like a good laugh ! It's strange that we tend to recall and or laugh at visual comedy. That's why silent movies or mimed comedy so delights us. We... Read more

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

• Building Bridges

  

  by Dean Tsang My history skills aren’t quite polished, so when I was given the theme of Building Bridges, my mind immediately jumped to the expression, the... Read more

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

• A Mythemagical Bridge

  

  If you've ever visited Cambridge (England, not Massachusetts) it is quite possible you've looked around some of the more picturesque colleges in that fine old... Read more

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