One-Liner Wednesday: Choose Life
One-Liner Wednesday 4 August 2021
Weekly Song Challenge: Round 17
I’m playing along again this week with the Weekly Song Challenge hosted by Laura at Lauravent69 Post a video of a song that makes you think of your youth. ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ by Stealer’s Wheel is forever associated in my head with revising for my final University exams in June 1973. In…
Song Lyric Sunday: Crying/Sadness – ‘Still I’m Sad’
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt from Jim at newepicauthor is the rather downbeat (nothing wrong with that) ‘Crying/Sadness’. This is the first song that came into my head. It’s by The Yardbirds, one of the seminal sixties UK rock bands who, at various times, could boast Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and, in this instance,…
One-Liner Wednesday: Go For It
“I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does.” – Oscar Wilde: ‘De Profundis’ – – – – – – – – Written while incarcerated in Reading Gaol. You really should read it.One-Liner Wednesday 24 October 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: Heliotropism
“I don’t believe in ageing; I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun”. – Virginia Woolf – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 10 October 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: Recycling
“There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world, but no ruined stones” – Hugh McDiarmid (1892-1978), Scottish poet, journalist and essayist – – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 15 August 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: Past The Halfway Mark
“You and I have memories/longer than the road that lies ahead” – ‘Two Of Us’, by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon & McCartney), from the album ‘Let It Be’ – – – – – – – Last week’s One-Liner was about the future, so in the interests of editorial balance here’s one about the…
One-Liner Wednesday: Seriously, though…
“A government that is strong because it is free, and confident because it is just, has nothing to fear in granting refuge to exiles.” – Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859), German explorer and polymath. – – – – – – – Well, that explains a lot doesn’t it? As a general rule, we like…
My Music Lexicon: R is for Rolling Stones (and Roxy Music)
It couldn’t really be anyone but the Rolling Stones for the letter ‘R’. Not only were they around in my formative years but – against all odds – they’re still going strong, at least on the basis of their performance at Glastonbury in 2013. It’s one of my biggest musical regrets that I never got…
SoCS: Never As Good As The First Time
First time for everything – even participating in Stream of Consciousness Saturday. This week’s theme is ‘book title’. I try always to have a ‘proper’ book on the go and make a point of reading at least a few pages every day. I spent a couple of years working my way through the Guardian list…
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