Category: Renewal

• 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

• A Future

  A Future Head of Augustus Looms down Baby faced leader Acquisition of colonialism Castles stand proud Once battlements Survived invasions Safeguard our shores Across the beaches Horseback troops thrust galloping to battlement Faster and Faster Classic novels align Our past, our heritage The Empire, British supremacy Victories acclaimed, territory conquered Trains travel coastal bound Frontiers […]

  Alison Little

  November 29, 2019

  Bataclan, Bio-degrade, Conquering, death, Decay, Flash Fiction, Home grown terrorism, Poetry, Recycle, Recycling, Renewal, Restoration, Revive, Roman, Roman Empire, Rubbish, Terror Attack, Uncategorized

• Rags, the Boutique does Southport

  Last Saturday saw the fun of Rags Boutique at Southport Festival. For the magic-themed festival we created an array of high standing wizard hats, a collection of mushroom masks. Black cats masqueraded and a troop of unicorns topped everything off. Alison Little started Rags Boutique workshops over a decade ago as part of Bold Street […]

  Alison Little

  May 17, 2019

  Art, Blackpool, Eco warrior, Ethical, Family, Green Credentials, Leisure time, Liverpool, Rags Boutique, Recycle, Recycling, Regeneration, Renewal, Revive, Rubbish, Southport, Southport Festival, Uncategorized

• Game Over

  I stand Tall The remains of Mee demolition The crew: Mee, the head man, Mo, Dow and Re-bow Got started last week The rest of the building knocked down: Demolished Kaput No more Outsides removed Core kept in place Outers ripped Splattered to the ground I stand as I have stood for fifty years A […]

  Alison Little

  April 19, 2019

  Ale House, Anxiety, Course, death, Decay, Demolition, Failing, Flash Fiction, Liverpool, Local History, Morality, Pac Man, Poetry, Regeneration, Renewal, Uncategorized, Video game

• Freshly Cut

  Free Fall text from Alison Little as a response to the tree wasted area located adjacent to the entrance to Wavertree Park in Liverpool.   Freshly Cut Crisp Pinetree’ Cut freshly, discarded Entry to the park space flanked by the aftermath of festivity Some burnt out Shelled, garotted by flame Others ripe Everlife of the […]

  Alison Little

  January 25, 2019

  Bio-degrade, City, Decay, Eco warrior, Ethical, Fatigue, Green, Green Credentials, Greenery, Morality, Nature, New Year, Poetry, Rejuvenate, Renewal, Revive, Uncategorized, Waste Product