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  Are songs poetry?   That’s a broad question and something that my late friend and poet Christo Heyworth had an ongoing gentle debate with....

I’ve always got something to do or something to think about.   I like to be alone with my thoughts but equally, I like to enjoy good company...

We are all searching for things that make sense of our world, looking for reasons why things that happen in our lives happen and, in...

Good evening readers. This week on the blog, we're looking at the theme of Britain. Britain, that geographically similar bundle of ...

Something Refreshing Sitting sassy, make mine a lassi Pass it fast, let it splash Alabaster flash Cat laps, getting fat She's a t...

Here are some more wonderful insights from the fantastic David Riley . We're the only creatures in the universe with a real humdinger o...

It really does sounds quite dull; a word, just a single little word. A combination of letters which are just squiggly lines really. It’s...

Earlier this month, as I’m sure some of you will have read, the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, Sir James Dyson, claimed that the ...

There's a piece of music which, when it comes on the radio, often makes me pause in what I am doing and listen. It's Karl Jenkins...