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 February’s days are twenty-nine.I’d be lost without our calendar. It hangs on the wall in the back room, telling us what we’re doing and where...

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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 months. Reading books wasn't an issue, and taking in the bigger picture wasn't so bad. The difficulty I had was in focusing on detail at a distance,...

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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. The theme of Foolishness is not compulsory, nor is the wearing of cap & bells. Steve ...

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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 the first word on my desktop notebook the lines were too thick to be of any use. Why don’t all pencils have HB or whatever on them.I actually didn’t...

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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 spines of books on my bookshelves for years, turning bold colours to muted pastels. Strong light destroys pigments. There's probably a scientific...

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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. I met a Colour Therapist on a train journey many years ago who explained that the seven colours of the spectrum relate to the seven main chakras...

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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 no idea what colours my relatives were dressed in and there’s no one left who would remember. I can understand why my grandchildren might...

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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 last few days I've gone down with some nasty bug that has left me with a running nose, a hacking cough, sore ribs, feeling chilly and with...

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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 described as something intended to craftily deceive I’m going on that basis to have a look at various deceptions that certainly use craft to fake...

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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 company Musica Lirica) being in a production tomorrow in Lytham St Annes - something about car men.😉Of course, I know it's a production of Bizet's...

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