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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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 up of ‘what ifs’.What if I hadn’t written that letter? What if I hadn’t gone to that party? What if I’d been a few minutes later? What if I’d...

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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 the name of my imprint again, I wouldn’t go for ‘HappenStance Press’. Before I tell you why, I’ll explain how the name HappenStance first came...

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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 happenstance, a circumstance especially due to chance. Tangible and intangible materials acquired in this way and used within the creative making...

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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 of vérité this time and give you a report of my actual Saturday as it unfolded, plus occasional asides. Are you OK with that?It began when...

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Week-end

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 generally as the same thing, apart from bank holiday weekends, which run into Monday. It’s the end of the conventional working nine to five...

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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.I’ve just been reading a book based in the 1850s and there was no mention of workers having a Saturday afternoon off. Sunday was the day of rest even though it...

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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 and Friday teatimes were wonderful. No school for two whole days. Saturday morning and I would will my parents to forget about my piano lesson....

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