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• Dull Calendars

  

  Guess who was born in Small Heath, Birmingham, about seventy years ago and grew up having a passion for football and history and is now known as the Dullest... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Calendars - It's A Date

  

  “Thirty days hath September,April, June and November.February has twenty-eight alone,All the rest have thirty-one,Excepting leap year, that’s the timeWhen... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thick & Thin

  

  I was ten when I finally admitted that I couldn't see properly. I suppose it happened so gradually that I was able to deny there was a problem for quite some... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' April Open Mic Night

  

  Tonight, poeticals, our monthly open mic might - via ye olde zoom. Still a few places available. Let me know if you'd like a slot to read or just listen in. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Colour Fades

  

  Even the sun was partially eclipsed today, draining colour from the morning sky. But that same sun has been steadfastly bleaching pictures on my walls and the... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thick and Thin

  

  I’ve just been sharpening a new pencil I’d picked up from my kitchen drawer to replace the stub of my last one. But it has no marking on it and when I wrote... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Colour

  

  What’s the most popular colour in the world? I’ll come to that in a minute but I can reveal now that it is not a beigey sort of brown. No, that’s just mine. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Colour

  

  How dull life looked in monochrome. My old photographs are all black and white, including my christening. I expect my family heirloom gown was white, but I’ve n... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Artifice

  

  It has not been a good week! I'd avoided the seasonal scourges of colds, flu, norovirus that seem to have been bouncing around since New Year, but over the... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Artifice

  

  If you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made. A quote that seems attributable to a few people including Groucho Marx and George Burns and as Artifice can be... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Happenstance

  

  I had absolutely no idea how I was going to tackle a blog about happenstance until I made a throwaway joke to a friend about Adele (who sings with local opera... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Happenstance - It Was Meant To Be

  

  Happenstance (noun): Chance or a chance situation especially one producing a good result.I’ve come to the conclusion that life - mine in particular - is made... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Happenstance

  

  I’m going to use the words of the wonderful Helena Nelson to describe the starting of HappenStance. I can’t do better:"If I had another life, and was choosing... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Happenstance and the Surrealists

  

  Surrealism is an art movement that began in the 1920s and is known for the creation of hybrids of words and images often generated through the experiences of... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Weekend

  

  Good evening, for it is quite late now, and the last blackbirds have long piped in the dusk. As the default weekend blogger, I thought I might serve up a slice... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Week-end

  

  spelled in the old-fashioned way is Saturday and Sunday. Nowadays, of course, the two words usually run together as weekend, but people take the meaning... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Week-end?

  

  So is it week-end or weekend? The thought of trying to write around 600 words on the subject of the hyphen is appalling. So I will ignore it. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Week-end - Here Comes the Weekend

  

  As a child I remember looking forwards to the weekends, but thinking back now, they weren’t the best times. Age eleven, I was miserable in my secondary school... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Banana Slugs

  

  Sometimes, world events transpire in such an ugly way that my intention to write a jolly, informative blog on the topic of slugs (and the lovely banana slug in... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Slugs

  

  . The word conjures up images of slime, plants being devoured and all round negativity. People with allotments and gardens may view them as the “enemy” as they... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION