If Shakespeare was alive today, he would have been a rapper, spitting lyrics over beats and battling with the best of them. Ok, maybe not, maybe he'd just be a critically acclaimed writer/director combination, but I've been listening to Rap and Rap Battles recently and something in them struck me. My music taste varies considerably, …
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
I’ve been away from the blog for a while, my last true post was end of May. There’s a post in June celebrating my 1 year blogging, which I’d had scheduled for a few months, always with the intent of touching up when the time came, but it went out as is and there we …
One Year on the Clouds
Despite what WordPress would have you believe, that this blog has been active almost six years, this weekend actually saw our first birthday on the Clouds. Sure, I had posts before then, very sparingly, one every six months when I got swept up in enthusiasm, kind of things, but now it’s been one year since …
Humanity’s True Strength
May 22nd saw some horrific attacks against Manchester. Men, women, and children were injured, killed, and left terrified by these attacks. People lost their children, their siblings, their families and I really don’t have any words that can ease that pain. I can only say that my thoughts are with them. What I want to …
I got Nominated for the Hidden Gem award!
WOW! I honestly didn’t expect this at all. I’ve been following the Bloggers Bash (who hasn’t?), but I never thought I’d be nominated into one of the Award Categories! Someone out there actually thinks Clockwork Clouds is a Gem! Wow. If you can’t tell I’m absolutely buzzing about this news. So buzzing, in fact, I …
5 Reasons Not To Vote!
Vote. Regardless of who you’re voting for: Vote. That’s the best advice I can give right now: Vote. The second best advice I can give is to read up on who you’re voting for. Read manifestos, look at past voting trends amongst the candidates and their parties, go into that polling booth informed and educated. …
Aspirations, Influences, and Imitations
When I was younger I was a big fan of Terry Pratchett, I still am, I just was when I was younger too. When I was around 13 to 15 Terry Pratchett was the only author I wanted to read and I made it through every book he had released at that point. To this …
My image, my focus: Kindness Challenge Week 1
Imagine a figure, blurred. The background behind vibrant, bustling and ever changing; a wall of monitors displaying thousands of different images and flickering all at once. Each flashing image has a soundtrack, but each is simply drowned by the other; each a smaller part of the ever growing cacophony. You’d be forgiven, given the scene …
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – Film Review
You may notice that the first Guardians of the Galaxy scores very highly with most people, as both a standalone film and as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When it arrived it presented a fresh new take on a genre people were worried was on the verge of stagnating. It was Marvels way of saying …
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Can you hear an Echo?
Can you hear an echo or is it just me? When Brexit was on the horizon and the voting was due to take place, my Facebook/Twitter was rife with those saying “Remain!”. We know how that went. When the recent presidential candidacy was underway, the same Facebook/Twitter just ripped the idea of President Trump to …
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