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• At the Movies

  Well, I've been singing " Saturday night at the movies, who cares what picture you see, when you're hugging with your baby on the balcony ? " ever since I saw... Read more

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

• This Was My Blackpool In '68

  

  Sometime in the mid ‘60s my family moved to Blackpool. My parents were in the licenced trade and the opportunity to have a pub on Blackpool Prom was their... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• When Elephants Strolled The Sands

  

  'Lost Blackpool' is the theme this week - and I'm resisting the temptation to lament the sad decline of our local football club. Read more

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

• A Very Lost Blackpool

  With the demolition of many of the town's architectural gems from years gone by, in the name of "Progress" (which is laughably also the town's motto), there is... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lost Blackpool - a Walk Through Memory.

  

  It's an interesting theme. I was thrilled by an exhibition of photographs at Stanley Park Visitor's Centre during summer 2015. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lost Blackpool

  

  I was born just after World War II and lived just off Westcliffe Drive in Little Layton The joke amongst conductors on the Corporation buses which travelled to... Read more

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

• Talking Funny

  Some coincidence, given this week's theme of dialects, that we have just been paying our last respects to Stanley Holgate, local Lancashire dialect poet, who... Read more

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

• Monday Regular Blog: DIALECTS (Monday 15th. Feb 2016)

  COME JOIN THE CIRCUS Sorry that my promise to occupy the Monday "blogspot" (which Gmail keeps on correcting to "bloodspot") was not kept in the GENERATION GAP... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dialects. Use Them - Or Lose Them.

  

  Th'all 'ave to forgive me Lanky dialect today. Tha' knows I'm a sandgrown 'un wi' watter in me boots but lately, I've bin a bit of a clothead, forgettin' me... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dialects.

  This week's topic is " Dialects " ....something that I find particularly interesting, possibly since I've lived in a variety of different places. Read more

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

• Mind The Gap?

  

  This week's theme is the generation gap, or 'institutional age segregation' as it is now referred to somewhat fancifully by sociologists. Let's stick with... Read more

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

• Generation Gap? More Like Techno-overload.

  

  I have never really acknowledged a generation gap. My parents were pretty open-minded. They had to be. There were four of us born between 1947 and 1958. My Mum... Read more

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

• Generation Gap

  This week's title set me thinking on a subject that I haven't given much thought to. Most probably because I have few links with younger people. Read more

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

• A Train Called Time

  A Train Called Time When I first heard the theme for the week, my thoughts immediately turned to Johnny Cash. Folsom Prison Blues is a classic song and the... Read more

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

• Train Keeps A Rolling...

  

  Here's a lot of stuff about trains and bogeys and a poem about the bogey man. 'Train Keeps A Rolling' is a very famous song that's been covered by many artists... Read more

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

• Train Keeps Rolling - Its a Genetic Circuitry Thing.

  

  I am having a hectic week. You know how it goes, a million and one things to do and really not much time to write. I drive everywhere these days and find it... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Train Keeps Rolling

  

  Well the Flying Scotsman does keep rolling as shown recently during trials in Lancashire. WOW ! Now, I've travelled on this record breaking locomotive in the... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Labour Of Love - Paul Kantner RIP

  

  Once again events have overtaken the original intention for this week's blog. The untimely death on Thursday night of Paul Kantner, founding member of my... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Labour - Enforced Euphemism.

  

  I believe in the power of language, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. In recent years I have been shocked by the frequent use of euphemistic... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Labour

  

  My take on "Labour " - and not the political party ,which in my mind has no resemblance to the true meaning of the word. Anyway my Grandfather was a dockside... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION