I have to give a special shout out to the dog above. Her name is Milly. She belongs to our eldest. It is her dog. The love our eldest has for her Milly is not confined to a love that only stretches to infinity and beyond. It is far, far more serious than that. It […]
Category: May 2106
Human Energy. Shame we can’t bottle and cork it. Skilbey Blogs.
Perhaps pickle it and put it in a jar? I am and have always been fascinated with energy and energy exchanges. I listened to Denise Gough on the radio over the weekend, (Radio 2 Graham Norton), talking about her Olivier Award-winning performance in People, Places and Things in the West End, and she made […]
‘What’s in the box?’ has me stumped. Skilbey Blogs.
Now, I’m a supporter of the ‘Viva la difference’ brigade. It’s got to be an instruction embedded in one of the genes in our human DNA; if nothing else, stop us all from being created in the likeness of Donald Trump. If genes only had to do one job… So, I say, each to […]
Everybody needs a bit of ‘time out’. Skilbey Blogs.
My daughter and her friend were in town the other day. She came back gushing about why she was back a little later than usual. ‘Because of this baby fox’. The last time I got up close and personal with a fox was some years ago, when I heard our extremely large, strutting, slightly aggressive […]
Dear writer, did you have an imaginary friend? Skilbey Blogs.
University study suggests that a writer’s relationship with characters is analogous to children’s relationships with imaginary friends. A study, by University of Oregon psychologist Marjorie Taylor, Ph.D., and her colleagues, refutes the conventional wisdom that preschool is the peak time for all kinds of imaginative play, including playing with imaginary companions. It inspired me […]
