SONGS AND SCRIPTS AND DUNKING BISCUITS
Every day tales of a winging-it creative
Author: Paul Ariss
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On December 14th 2020 I posted a blog – only my seventh blog at the time – ruminating that Jesus seems to have less and less exposure at Christmas. It was in large part inspired by a bulletin I wrote for a charity one mid-summer informing all their shops that Christmas cards were being distributed…
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Have you ever received a kindness from someone that quite frankly you could do without? The kind of lovely act that makes you want to ask them if they had lost their mind? A few days ago I gave a neighbour a large bag of baking apples from my tree, which she was delighted about.…
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I recently read a quote that said; and I’m paraphrasing a little here, that it’s not just about the big people in your life that have made your life whole, like your parents and siblings and other close relations, but the people who have occupied your life at some stage to a significant degree, only…
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I have just finished reading the enlightening and entertaining autobiography ‘Lightening Seeds, Football and Cosmic Post-Punk’ by Ian Broadie, the songwriter, lead singer, producer and beating heart behind Liverpool based band The Lightening Seeds. The Lightening Seeds had several excellent and memorable hits, mainly in the 1990’s, such as ‘Life of Riley’ and ‘Pure’. Broadies…
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Never having been an art lover I surprised myself recently by signing up, quite excitedly I have to say, for an exhibition of the work of Vincent Van Gogh entitled Beyond Van Gogh. Despite never having previously taken any interest in his work I nonetheless got up early and got myself down to the Exhibition…