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• Luggage, Coming And Going

  

  Luggage and I haven’t always had the best relationship. The reasons for this are many and varied: from the single pair of dubious looking undies doing the round... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Greatest Dancer

  

  Who is the greatest dancer? There are many candidates for this title such as Fred Astaire who starred in films such as Top Hat and Funny Face. Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Greatest Dancers

  

  You've already been treated to a quartet of fascinating blogs this week about the greatest dancers from stage, screen and nightclub. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Greatest Dancer

  

  On the 7th of March, Filthy Underneath, the fourth album by Nadine Shah from South Tyneside reached number 25 in charts. The third single off the album, The... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Greatest Dancer - My Top Ten

  

  I decided that the best way to tackle this week's theme is to give you an insight into who I think are the best ten dancers ever. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Greatest Dancers

  

  With a Bronze medal from the National Association Teachers of Dancing I feel that I have some insight into the subject of the Greatest Dancer. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Greatest Dancer - It Isn't Me!

  

  Sunday afternoons in the winter, watching the ‘Hollywood Musical’ at the home of my school-friend, Lorna, were very happy times. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Water Falls

  

  There's sure been a lot of water falling in these parts recently. Everyday, so it seems, arrives grey and wet. I know it's partly seasonal and to do with... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Waterfalls

  

  As you might imagine when I am hillwalking I come across many waterfalls. Some are stupendous like the Grey Mare's Tail near Moffat...others might just be a... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Waterfall

  

  If you promise not to tell anyone I’d like to take you on a walk to one of the hidden gems of an area between Preston and Blackburn, an area not known for... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Magazine

  

  Anybody who knows a smattering of French might hazard a guess that our word magazine has got 'magasin ' (shop or store) somewhere in its ancestry, and they'd... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Magazines

  

  From my young days as a child visiting a makeshift chest clinic in a terraced house on Walton’s Parade’ in Preston clutching the latest copy of ‘Sunny... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Magazines: Creative Inspiration

  

  Several years ago I was gifted a carload of National Geographic magazines. For nearly a decade I have cut them up incorporating bits into my own collages. I hav... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poetry Magazines, Past and Present

  

  Poetry magazines. I've subscribed to a few over the years and I've always been a sucker for any I found in charity shops. Then, one day, somebody passed a pile... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Magazines

  

  I think it was a Saturday morning, after getting my pocket money, that I would be straight down to the newsagent to get the latest issue of my favourite... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Magazines - A Learning Curve

  

  My first magazine was Look and Learn when I was still at infant school. My father bought it for me because I was captivated by a story my school teacher read... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• We Are Not Amused!

  

  This is going to be a bundle of laughs! Whoever picked the topic? As an act of kindness, I'll keep it short. The end.unamusing family portraitI'm only kidding,... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Did It My Way

  

  Just recently I received a text from my oldest friend. We met at the age of eleven, sixty years ago. There’s nothing unusual about receiving a text from this... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' March Open Mic Night

  

  This month's online event. Meteorological winter is over (apparently). Sunny Side Up is the non-compulsory theme and there are twenty 5 minute slots on offer.... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• We Are Not Amused

  

  In 1877 The New York Times reported that US Senator Roscoe Conkling poked fun at President Rutherford B. Hayes for using the word ‘We’ in speeches. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION