steelcityman

I'm just a WYSIWYG kind of guy … who wears his heart on his sleeve.


    The Fight for the Labour Party…. The Labour party is in disarray after the resignation of Ed Miliband (left), as the Labour Party Leader. We all knew there would be no shortage of candidates for the position and it finished up as a short list of four ; Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz …

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   As I lay in bed last night … awaiting the sweet embrace of MORPHEUS (and for all you purists, I know that technically, Morpheus is written up as the god of dreams, but widely categorised in modern times as the god of Dreams and/or sleep…Whatever did HYPNOS do to get forgotten so easily ?… probably fallen into …

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In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “You’re a Winner!.” Karl Marx once said (allegedly)…”Religion is the opium of the masses”…I think in modern times the ‘religion’ could well be replaced with…’The Lottery”… The Lottery is now the opium of the masses. Do you ‘do’ the lottery ?? I certainly do, in fact I …

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Blogging 101 is finished at last …HUSSAR !!! it’s been a real journey through the world of IT and the WordPress platform in particular (well…for a technophobe like me it has !!) I’ve been frustrated …a lot…despondent…a lot, and Ive learned a lot, but the biggest thing that has happened is that I’ve met a …

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In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Half and Half.”

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Well I struggled mightily to find an ‘event’ congruent with my own blog, searching for two days, off and on, (after all we do need to break in order to eat sleep etc…in desperation I chose to do what I thought to be the easiest thing, a photo challenge, being as I am now three tasks behind (inc this one).

A Hydrangea floret with two different colours in it….I never saw this phenomenon before and no doubt some green fingered Hydrangea expert will tell me all about the variation of acidity in the soil…That bit I do know, thanks to the miracle of Google (even though they avoid taxes in the UK !!!)…Anyway fellow Bloggers, be you photographers, writers, comedians or Star Trek Fans…here is my photo of ‘Two Halves’…I quite like it..(The flower, not the photograph !!)

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24/07/2015


In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt:    “Let It Be.           “A restaurant that removed your favorite item from the menu, a bad cover of a great song… Write a post about something that should’ve been left untouched, but wasn’t. Why was the original better? <a href=”https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/let-it-be/”>Let It Be</a> …

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Hello fellow Bloggers…task 10 done and dusted… This time the task was quite an easy one for an ageing technophobe like yours truly. I’ve settled for 20 blogs as I feel any more would be a little unruly to handle…but…that’s not to say other blogs are not worthy of my mention/follow..far from it. I have …

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 A post that inspired me … well where do I start ? so many of the bloggers 101 have inspired me with their literary skills and the ability to string words together in a way that grips you, along with the everyday kind of life full of pain, recovery, idealism, love and happiness…it has been …

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