Sometimes I don’t know how I am feeling until something happens to shift my mood. Like this morning. I had Radio Four on in the background, as I often do, when I muted it to listen to the song linked to today’s Daily Create. It’s such a happy song, and as I listened I felt my mood shift. Suddenly rather than crying from the stresses and troubles of the world, I felt like crying from relief. As the lyrics say […]
Today’s Daily Create asks us to Imagine you find a kaleidoscope. You put it up to your eye, and point it to the sky. You twist it into the light. What do you see? Use either story or poem or words or image or art to bring us into the colorful world of your tumbling tube. I knew I wanted to use a flower to create an image, so I found this one of an iris I took some years […]
53/365 Cherry Blossom flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Nobody’s asked me, but that’s never stopped me from having an opinion, so here goes. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I feel that I should say something deep or profound, but actually I can’t remember. I really started blogging regularly during #rhizo14 though, as that gave me a community to blog with and motivation to blog. So blame Dave. What platform are you using to manage your blog and why do you use it? WordPress. I […]
Today’s Daily Create asks us to make a collage of my safe havens. Most of mine are in the West of Scotland, either on or within spitting distance of the Isle of Mull. I grabbed a few from my albums to make a collage, I could have chosen hundreds. I was brought up in the Peak District, which is stunningly beautiful. With a Cornish father I spend yearly holidays in Cornwall, which is God’s own county. I moved to the […]
45/365 Sir Walter Pigeon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
38/365 Dusk at the Three Craws flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Today’s Daily Create asks us to visit Kevin’s blog and make a poem out of the anti-spam words that you need to enter in order to post a comment. Amusingly, Kevin has moved his blog to a new home over the last few days, and the new blog doesn’t ask for these words. So I stayed with the old one and refreshed the page a few times to get this: Felt chop?Pleats do.Bidder ha?Shrews mew Well, that’s better than some […]
Winter sun flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Winter sun flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Nearly there flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license People often tell me that they wished they found it as easy to write as I do – because, they think, it’s obvious that writing comes naturally to me. And, actually, they’re right – I do find writing easy. Whether I’m typing at a computer or (more often) writing with one of my many fountain pens, I don’t have a problem getting words onto paper. What is […]
Nearly there flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license People often tell me that they wished they found it as easy to write as I do – because, they think, it’s obvious that writing comes naturally to me. And, actually, they’re right – I do find writing easy. Whether I’m typing at a computer or (more often) writing with one of my many fountain pens, I don’t have a problem getting words onto paper. What is […]
