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[LIFE] Talking #Pockets

Yesterday I was chatting to my friend Nell, author of the excellent Musings of a Clergy Child, and writer at LICC – an organisation I love for really getting me involved in ‘life and faith’ as things that work together – as an option for research… anyway, we were chatting about pockets,

which as you may know, still finds itself on my Twitter bio:

Life Explorer, author, speaker, SL  MMU, Christian, digital culture, ,     

I was saying, I keep meaning to blog, pulling together some of the findings over years – and then today, the story made it onto the BBC, and tomorrow the bride will be on BBC Breakfast:

So, let me see what I can find (I suspect I’ll be back adding bits as I re-find old finds) – I’ve shared generally, and also in WIASN, it’s quite a frequent topic of conversation! I’m not a specialist in this area, but I pretty-much refuse to buy clothes without pockets (all tips where to find good clothes from appreciated…)

A little poem:

A response to the poem above.

A few pictures (origins unknown for most, but linked if known):

Not so sure about the punch at the end but…

Photo by Mikaela Shannon on Unsplash

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Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst  (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.

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