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• Family Patterns

  

  It’s good to have a break from the usual work pattern and enjoy the extra day off that a Bank Holiday Monday brings. An extra hour in bed is a welcome rest. Read more

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

• Murmuration

  

  Patterns - yes, okay. Let's avoid psephology, holes in the cosmos, the psychological profiling of football club chairmen and male pattern baldness. I give you... Read more

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

• Patterns

  

  I am sat at the breakfast bar in the kitchen at my Mum's house while I type this, listening to the background sound of rain on the window. Read more

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

• Is Silence Better Than Poetry?

  

  I don’t feel worthy to contribute to this blog because I haven’t written poetry for what must be coming on a couple of years. I’m busy. I’m too busy. I’m way to... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Elements

  

  are something we live with every day. Sun, Wind, Rain, Hail. We can't control them. On recent investigation I discovered an Elemental is a mythical being of... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Yes, Well Elemental ? I'd Heard Sherlock Say to Watson " ...

  Yes, well Elemental ? I'd heard Sherlock say to Watson " It's elemental my dear Watson" ...sort of straightforward , obvious, pretty basic..... Ah ! More like... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Elemental, My Idea

  

  I spent a few days on the Isle of Man this week. I'd never been before, so it was all new territory to explore and the weather was fabulous - more like June tha... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Basic Stuff

  elemental (ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəl ) Definitions adjective fundamental; basic; primal ⇒ the elemental needs of man motivated by or... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Elemental

  

  I have often considered how people like to complain. Generally I mean. About the weather; about long waiting times in casualty departments; about rising... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shores

  

  “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Poet & the Mermaid

  

  How did Garrison Keillor begin those cult radio broadcasts of his in that oh so lugubrious voice? "It's been another quiet week in Lake Woebegone..." or words t... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Seashore Memories

  

  As a child, I grew up inland. A day trip to the seaside was a rare treat for the school holidays. I have the usual memories of building sandcastles on the beach... Read more

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

• She Sells Seashells On The Seashore

  

  It has been a week that has run like an horrendous tongue twister. My sister Lesley has a very classy home on the top of the highest hill overlooking Ramsey... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Seashore

  

  This week's contribution is a piece that I wrote in August 1968. Good heavens! All those years ago and where has the time gone ? Here I am in my dotage still... Read more

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

• Surrealism

  

  . Wow, okay. Pause for thought. As a ‘movement’, Surrealism has been with us for nearly a century now, arriving as part and parcel of a cultural convulsion of... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The True Origin of Surrealism

  

  When Steve asked me to submit a piece for the blog I was delighted...except when he informed me that the title was "Surrealism" (gulp...) So I put on my thinkin... Read more

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

• Journey to Otherness

  

  My journey to otherness began at a young age. I was seven when my parents decided the state-run village school I attended wasn’t good enough for me. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Otherness

  

  Definition: the quality of being different. None more so than those who reign over us, eh? Almost a breed apart, the Royals, what with their divine right,... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Answer is Clear - What Was the Question?

  

  For a long time, it seemed obvious that I had no aptitude for maths. It was a reasonable inference for a seven-year-old. No matter how strenuously I tried to... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Myopia

  

  Let's give this theme of short-sightedness a metaphorical interpretation. There's a General Election in the offing. It's a priceless opportunity for Britons to... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION