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A Dead Good Blog
http://deadgoodpoets.blogspot.co.uk/
A group of poets from Blackpool, Lancashire, discussing poetry, inspiration and writing in general.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 2031 )
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Ignorance - a Constant Source of Embarrassment
The older I get, the more I realise, with quiet despair, how many things have passed me by in life. I thought I was a woman of the world. Read more
Posted on 09 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
The Road Less Travelled.. ,
I'd only been abroad twice, before I was widowed. They were a week in the Rhine Valley and a weekend in Bologne ...somewhere roundabout 1986. Yet I'd always... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
An Idiot Abroad - Keep an Open Mind.
I have travelled abroad since I was 8 years old. First trip was only to Belgium with family - we flew to Ostend and had a great time at The White Horse Inn. Read more
Posted on 06 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
An Idiot Abroad - Boots In Manhattan
It wasn’t my intention to be an idiot abroad. It’s never my intention to be an idiot anywhere but things happen sometimes and the only way forward is to go... Read more
Posted on 04 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Pair of Idiots Abroad
When our children were small and we had very little spare money we used to pack the rusty old Sierra to the roof, squash the children in the back like... Read more
Posted on 02 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Wordpool
For anybody curious about the theme of the blog, it was chosen in deference to Blackpool's Festival Of Written Word which has been hosted by Blackpool Arts ... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Turn of Events - Changing the Course of a Life
My Dad at about the time he became a Bevin Boy I've written before about how I believe in fate - or chance - whatever you want to call it, so this week's blog... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Turn Of Events
Sometimes these blogs almost write themselves (if you know what I mean). At the beginning of the week I was trying to figure out how I would interpret Turn Of... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Murder Etc....
I have just returned from the Lake District, so haven't had time to think about this week's ( now somewhat ) apt subject. Briefly I was concerned , as my son... Read more
Posted on 24 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Turn of Events - Murder, Mayhem and Madness.
I wasn't going to write this week. Couldn't really separate one turn of events from another. I suppose that, now I that I am well into my third-term, (my... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Turn of Events - Roehampton, 1971
In my mid-teens, I loved going to London to stay with my aunt. Often, the whole family would go by car, but my favourite trips were the ones I made alone, on th... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
The Healing Powers of Cheese
As a family, we have always loved cheese. Of us all, my dad is probably the biggest fan, waxing lyrical at the sight of a Stinking Bishop or a dark veined... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Cheeseboarding
Cheese. I love it. Time for some fun, it's a 'feel good' foodstuff. Let's go cheeseboarding. Everyone has heard of Laughing Cow cheese (la vache qui rit) but... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Cheese... and Wine of Course.
I have always loved cheese. I prefer savoury to sweet. When the desert trolley is wheeled out on family birthdays of celebrations, I watch others burst into... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Everyone Say Cheese
Say ‘cheese’. No, it’s not a continuation of my Selfie blog from last week, though this started at around the same time. It was the typical chat between me and ... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Selfies
Strange as it may seem to anyone under the age of about thirty but it's only in the last few years that the word, 'selfie,' has come into being. Read more
Posted on 12 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Self-effacing
Selfies! Oh heck. I'm going to keep it snappy this week as I don't have a great deal to say on the topic. I do possess an iPhone and I use it all the time for... Read more
Posted on 11 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
To Selfie Or Not to Selfie......?
I must admit that I've taken to selfies. However I take them when I'm hillwalking...so no posing and preening there. Normally I look bedraggled and windswept ,... Read more
Posted on 10 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Selfies - Body Image.
I understand self-image. I was a dancer. The art of looking great was instilled in me from an early age. My fathers was a 'dresser'. Read more
Posted on 09 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Facade
The tilted chin. The flattering light. The hours spent contouring your face to perfectly refract the light disguising the imperfections. The moles, the scars,... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION