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• Mind Games People Play

  

  In a week of rushing and deadlines, I've not had a lot of time to think nor prepare for this blog (on the theme of Games People Play) so please excuse a brief... Read more

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

• Games People Play - How High Are the Stakes?

  

  They play a lot of games in politics. No where in the world are more games played than in the corridors of power. They play games with us - the electorate. Read more

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

• Games People Play

  

  Firstly this week's topic kept me singing this -- Oh, the games people play yeh Every night and every day yeh Never meaning what they say yeh Never saying what... Read more

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

• A Crumpled Rainbow

  

  Mortality: on the library-shelf of our lives, after education, adventure, war, romance, childcare, politics, hobbies, maybe a bit of noir, it stands immovable a... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mortality - It is Nothing to Worry About.

  

  A wise man once told me that there are only two certainties in life; one is death and the second is that flat roofs will leak. Well he was a roofer. I have to... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mortality

  Well better late than never ! This week' s title hasn't really been far from my mind....At the weekend I got an urgent message from a friend, asking if I could... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moon

  Many thought that when I was asked to write a piece about the moon that I would write a poem about bare bums. The fact is I really like the moon and she feature... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Barking at the Moon

  

  Hot on the heels of last week's cat blog, this week's dog blog. Prompted by listening to Mark Grist recite a poem about his happy hound on Blackpool Promenade... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moon and Supermoon

  

  I have always been fascinated by the moon. I live by the sea and have known since childhood that the lunar cycle controls the high and low tides. Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moon

  

  Well this week's title 'Moon'..can mean various things, but I am going to talk about 'The Moon ' Now, the moon can be regarded as a benevolent or malevolent... Read more

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

• 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