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• 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

• We Are Not Amused - Let's Have A Laugh

  

  The comment “We are not amused” is widely believed to have been said by Queen Victoria in response to an inappropriate joke or remark made by an equerry. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Blackout!

  

  Blackout Poetry it is then! I'd not tried this technique before, though my fellow Dead Good blogger Kate has made a strong case for it. Read more

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

• Blackout Poetry: Creative Development

  

  I enjoy writing poetry and making visual art with found things and thus it is a bit surprising that I only discovered blackout poetry in 2023. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Blackout Poetry

  

  Dr. Johnson found them 'ingenious and diverting'; Horace Walpole wrote to a friend that he had 'laughed over them till he cried'; Oliver Goldsmith is reported t... Read more

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

• Omg!

  

  From a Radio Four religious affairs programme about women in the priesthood* -Interviewer: Have you always had the ambition to join the church and become a... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• God

  

  There is zero chance of me getting into an argument about which God is the true one nowadays. So, I’m going to have a look at two references to God. One new... Read more

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

• God - Keeping My Faith

  

  I believe in God. I don’t know what God looks like and I wouldn’t know where to start to guess. God’s appearance is not important, it’s the sense of being I... Read more

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

• Eviiielope

  

  You're wondering perhaps why I've given my pushing the envelope blog such a curious title. Let me explain the thinking behind EVIIIELOPE. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pushing The Envelope

  

  When I first heard the phrase “pushing the envelope” I thought it must have had something to with stationery or the Royal Mail and postal delivery services, suc... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pushing the Envelope

  

  I can still remember a moment back in the 70s when I was a postie in Bournemouth. I’d strolled up the path to a front door in a quiet suburb, mid morning and no... Read more

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

• Missing

  

  I have blogged previously about my Uncle Norman and his long descent into dementia. He's been in a residential care home in Blackpool ever since 2015, missing i... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Missing

  

  To be or not to be is the question for Southport pier. It is there as a phantom stretching its considerable length over reaching sands, but shut, locked to thos... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Missing

  

  The English language invents a new word every 98 seconds. That has absolutely nothing to do with Missing but I had to mention it as it is such an amazing fact. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION