written and posted by members of Lancashire Dead Good Poets' Society

Wednesday, 12 February 2025

I Love You

I was a bit flummoxed by this week’s topic of I Love You but as luck would have it I was in Kendal yesterday and popped into The Famous 1657 Chocolate House as usual and found this bar so I’m going to start it now and I’m sure it will bring me luck in the writing.I’m not going to write about chocolate,...

Monday, 10 February 2025

PS I Love You (no, really I do)

I love you. Three little words.I have a bit of a love hate relationship with those three little words. And it’s not because I don’t like them or I never use them. Let me explain.When I was growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s, in a very close knit, nurturing family, I’m sure we all loved each other, and...

Saturday, 8 February 2025

Dashboards

This could go a number of ways, gentle readers. There are options. I could write about instrument panels in cars, trains, boats & planes - let's call that A, the Burt Bacharach option. a vintage car dashboard circa 1930sI could regale you with thrilling tales of my time in the world of...

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Dashboard

I have a vague recollection of the dashboard on the first car I bought back in around 1974, it was an Austin Mini, and only remember the gauges showing the speed (not a problem, it was too slow), the fuel (sometimes a problem) and the oil and water temperatures (always a problem). I haven’t had a car...

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Dashboard

 It is many years since I crashed my four or five year old face into the shiny dashboard of my father’s Jaguar Mk 2, I think it was. Cars, particularly Jaguars were Dad’s passion at that time and I was still in my ‘Go faster, Daddy!’ phase. No speed limit, no seat belts, and no fear, until he had to...

Friday, 31 January 2025

Lancashire Dead Good Poets' February Open Mic Night

21:19:00 Posted by Steve Rowland No comments
Our February event coming soon...20 open mic slots available. No set theme (though love is in the ether). Email: deadgoodpoets@hotmail.co.uk to reserve a slot to read and/or to listen in. You don't have to be from Lancashire!Hope to see you there,Steve ...

Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Jigsaw

I’d always thought that solving a jigsaw puzzle was a solitary occupation done in your living room on a quiet evening on a cleared table and no cats, dogs or humans to spoil your concentration. How wrong can you be.Much to my surprise there is The World Jigsaw Puzzle Federation which is an association...

Saturday, 25 January 2025

Chickens

Typically around the penultimate week-end in January, we have an avian theme to the Dead Good Blog, to chime in with the RSPB's 'Big Garden Birdwatch' event. But given all the little garden birds have been blown away by thirty-six hours of Storm Éowyn, that only leaves me chickens to write about,...

Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Chickens

When I was at school in Birmingham a few years ago and the snow was real snow then that was the time for an ice slide to be created across the playground. My mates would line up and hurl themselves along said slide. I didn’t. One of those mates called me a chicken. I thought of it as a perfectly reasonable...

Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Chickens

Years ago, when I worked in an infant school, I was given the task of drawing a large chicken which was to be the centrepiece of a class project and would fill a classroom wall. I may have skills, but freestyle drawing is not one of them and I mumbled such to the teacher, who was very lovely and kind,...