Round and Round

No doubt this will get Amy to roll her eyes and tut at me but, upon seeing the prompt it made me think of retro pin up model October Divine and her flirty but not dirty 50s style pin up shoots. Is this an excuse to fill my entry with pretty girls in pin up poses? …

Where’s a Slinky When You Need One

The fact that we talk of a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the expected traffic. Off the top of my head I can think of only three songs about stairs: Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin Stairway to the Stars-countless artists including Glenn Miller, Dexter Gordon, George Shearing and …

Going Solo

Solitude is the name of one of my favourite Duke Ellington compositions and it has been covered many, many times. https://youtu.be/8eLl84iMsrQ There was the late great Lady Day giving her haunting version of the song. Now I must admit it took me along time to "get" Billie Holiday,  as a younger man and teenager I …

Masks Off at Midnight

Mask We all wear a mask at some part of our lives,  not always a physical one and more often a physiological one. We put on a performance in our everyday lives and often wear many of these invisible masks, you could say that at work the mask I wear is that of the friendly …

Faust Thinking

https://youtu.be/becWr0vc6cA Crossroads My immediate thought upon seeing this prompt was the story of Robert Johnson and his fabled Faustian pact for fame and fortune, but I am fairly certain I have been over that before. The fabled story has influenced some of my writing in an unusual way; it is a school based mystery and …

Share Your World Week 17

Worldly Thoughts When writing by hand do you prefer to use a pencil or pen?  When writing by hand I always prefer to use a pen over pencil, it is more permanent and I was always bought up to show my working and freely acknowledge any mistakes I made. The added advantage to the pen …

Canyon Encounter

Of all Gin Joints, of all the places, in all the world you had to walk into a lamp post! When I was a plucky 18 year old studying Geology and Environmental Sciences for A Level the opportunity to visit the National Parks of Northwest America arose and I took the offer. The tour included …

The Last Five

Taking a leaf from the community pool, I am going to have a look at the last 5 dvds/Blu-Rays I watched So without much further ado, in reverse order: 5. Doctor Who: The Sensorites  Here I did an unusual thing in that I went straghit to a special feature ahead of the story, the extra …

Grapevine

Do you hear the whispermen? The whispermen are near...   When I was a schoolboy one of the classroom games we were allowed to play was Chinese Whispers, in which you'd sit in a circle and one person would whisper something into the next child's ear, the next child would then whisper what he thought …

Bottom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeS58ugfQ2c Now one may wonder as my sudden inclusion of music tracks to open and close this entry, there is no particular reason other then to liven the page up a bit. If you think you know why I selected these particular tracks please comment below and I will tell you if you are right …