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• Reveniens

  

  To someone of a Goth sensibility like myself, revenant will suggest a ghostly or animated corpse returned from the grave, the word being derived from the Latin... Read more

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

• Creeping On Midnight

  

  Quick, it's creeping on midnight and I've a Saturday blog to write. Topic? Revenant... Bloody hell! Get out of that one! No - wait, that's actually it, isn't it... Read more

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

• Revenant--exile, Ghost... Someone Who Returns from Afar.

  

  This week's title REVENANT, meaning someone who returns - from exile or from the dead. I expect that I've often been a revenant . Born in London, taken to... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Blue

  

  Last year at the launch of the Walking On Wyre map in Garstang Norman Hadley read a wonderful poem, ‘Learning The Truth About Kingfishers’ that explained how th... Read more

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

• Here's Blue Tomatoes For You

  

  Never mind Glastonbury. With a decision pending this week-end about fracking beneath our Blackpool doorstep, today's blog has no option but to pull its politica... Read more

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

• Lost in a Sea of Blue

  

  I love it when the theme is a colour. It allows the creative juices to flow, I mean, it could be a blue anything, right?! I have, however, gone with perhaps a... Read more

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

• Blue Sky Thinking

  

  This week my lawn mower broke down. It seems like an insignificant detail but for me it meant respite: at least for one day. It was the first time this year tha... Read more

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

• Out In The Blue

  

  This week's theme BLUE...well I was certain that I might have a piece to fit the bill. After all I'm always " out in the blue " , so to speak. Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Calling A Halt

  

  I've loved travelling by train since I was a baby, and had family living either side of the River Ribble. Our family - Mum. Dad and me in Layton from 1948. Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Red Card For Corruption

  

  This week's theme is 'Calling A Halt'. Well, there is so much to take exception to - and to want to put a stop to - that your Saturday Blogger could keep... Read more

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

• Stop The Gossip

  

  I dislike gossip. I think because I dislike the effect that it has on its often innocent victims. I pride myself that I simply won’t be drawn into pre-emptive,... Read more

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

• Literally Making Waves

  

  I was born in Fleetwood, in the Milton Lodge maternity home just behind the Mount, within spitting distance of the Irish sea, so it’s forgivable that I write... Read more

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

• In Praise Of The Boats That Rocked

  

  During my early teenage years, an old bakelite mains valve radio was probably my most treasured possession. Its acquisition was certainly one of the best turns... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Making Waves

  I'm not normally a confrontational kind of person. Once in a blue moon however, I do tend to "go off on one" and inevitably, it results in a reaction of total... Read more

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

• I Am The Wave

  When I read the theme for this week – Making Waves – my mind raced through all the times I have been a little, (or indeed) a lot obtuse when trying to effect... Read more

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

• Enter The Dragon

  

  There be dragons here, or so the map says, The further away from civilisation you go; For those that go there, few ever come back For the dragons, they say, hav... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Reimagined Dragons

  

  I’ve been called a handful of less-than-flattering names in my time (with varying degrees of justice), but it occurred to me when I was casting round for ideas... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mythbusters!

  

  "If it's somethin' weird an' it don't look good Who ya gonna call? Mythbusters!" Dragons: Fire-breathing, maiden-munching monsters? Winged empyrean beasties?... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Fairytale Childhood Shattered ....

  It's always nice to think that the possibilities are endless, isn't it? That's why, as a child, I loved utilising my imagination to its fullest, taking myself o... Read more

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

• Dragons? Really?

  

  drﾄト’on n. 1. Mythical monster like reptile , usu. with claws and often breathing fire; (w. allus. to legend) watchful guardian of treasure etc;... Read more

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