Month: June 2020

• Recycled Tampons + er, do I have to?

    So you’ve moved with the green revolution: recycling, re-using carrier bags and you endeavour to sort waste for compost. Due to lock-down you’ve reduced use of the vehicle and invested more time to walking and cycling. The next step: they want us girls to use re-cycled tampons, your first thought? Someone else’s discharge! ew…ew…ew. […]

  Alison Little

  June 26, 2020

  accidents, Bio-degrade, Charity, Covid-19, Decay, Degrading, Discharge, Female Icons, Feminine Hygiene, Feminism, Fertility, Green Credentials, Greenery, Humanitarian, Lock-down, Period, Pre-menstraul, Recycle, Recycling, Renewal, Sanitary produce, Tampon, Uncategorized, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• The Man Who

  Dave, my partner died from covid-19 during the pandemics deadliest week in Britain. This poem was written for him and read at his funeral. Due to the circumstances only 10 could attend the service and we were seated 2 metres apart. Now, as we progress towards some kind of pre-coronavirus normality, only without Dave and […]

  Alison Little

  June 19, 2020

  Albert Dock, Athletico Madrid, Birkenhead, Britain’s deadliest week, Cammell Laird, coronavirus, Covid-19, death, Family, Funeral, Hurricane Alison, Lock-down, pandemic, Poetry, Public confidence, Relationships, Uncategorized

• Brit Pop Guitar

  The Brit Pop Guitar is a sensation: Visual arts meets music culture with the dynamism of the Nineties which we all love to remember. The iconic Union Jack which was imprinted on many of the bands of the era immerses within the surface of the guitar. A gritty rendition, presenting many blemishes, reflecting the disenchantment […]

  Alison Little

  June 12, 2020

  Anorak, Art, Blur, Brit Pop, Britishness, Celebration, Celebrity Culture, City, Female Icons, Glastonbury, Guitar, Heroin, Jarvis Cocker, Narcotics, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Painting, Pulp, Revive, Richard Ashcroft, She’s Eclectic, The Verve, Uncategorized, Union Jack

• 1970s: girls now get wet!

  Learning to read, the ultimate voyage of discovery for today’s youngest, but this has been the custom since literature became widely available in the nineteenth century. We look at the differences in culture, relationships, and gender in the reading books of the sixties and those of the seventies. In the books of the sixties, the […]

  Alison Little

  June 5, 2020

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