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• Estuary - Walking on Wyre

  

  Several years ago Lancashire Dead Good Poets' Society were fortunate to receive funding from Arts Council England for a project to create a poetry map of the... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flambuoyant

  

  I know, I know. The (mis)spelling is deliberate. Who would have guessed? Other bases having been covered, you're in for one more perversely oblique approach to... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Say It With Flowers

  

  My father was a flamboyant gardener. When he was landlord at The Eagle and Child, he won Best Kept Pub in Lancashire several times. He had wonderful climbing... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flamboyance

  

  /Flamboyant. A word to savour. It conjures a world of overemphasis coupled with style and personalities to match. The gestures, glitz and glamour to take us awa... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flamboyant - Acceptance

  

  When thinking about the word ‘flamboyant’, certain people come to mind, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Oscar Wilde, Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger and many more. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ganging Up

  

  I thought gangs would prove to be a popular theme with the Dead Good writing collective, but it seems I got that one wrong - so there's only one blogging gang i... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Essence

  

  When it comes down to it, life on Earth (and possibly pretty much anywhere else in the omniverse for that matter), would simply not be possible without water,... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Essence

  

  (Latin: essentia) is a polysemic term, used in philosophy as a designation for the property or set of properties that make an entity or substance what it... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Essence - A Lifetime's Fragrance

  

  There is a perfume that I used to call ‘The Essence of Me’. Of course, it has a real name, Dioressence by Christian Dior. I can’t remember my first... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Collage Poetry #3

  

  If Lancashire Dead Good Poets' Society still ran writing workshops, I think that Collage Poetry would have made an excellent theme. Regrettably it doesn't, but... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Collage Poetry #2

  

  You’ve sat down at your desk, the pencil (Lamy propelling) and rubber positioned just so, the light is perfect and there are no distractions to stop you startin... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Collage Poetry

  

  CollageThe art of making a picture with various materials or objects…stuck onto a larger surface.PoetryA piece of writing in which the words are arranged in... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Three Days That Changed The World

  

  I've ducked out of writing about an obvious three days that changed the world - the crucifixion to the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth - partly because I... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Days That Changed The World - Operation Dynamo

  

  The Second World War had begun in western Europe on 1 September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. In Belgium and France there was a long winter of waiting as... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Days That Changed The World

  

  When I first started to ponder the theme of Days that Changed the World my mind went immediately to the book 'Ten Days That Shook The World' by John Reed, his... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Days That Changed the World - WWW

  

  30th April 1993, a very significant date that I was unaware of until I looked it up. CERN, which is the French acronym for the European Council for Nuclear... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Out Of Control

  

  Hmmm. Out of control is this week's allotted blog theme. It begs the rhetorical question "where to begin?" Daily Covid-19 case numbers are at record levels. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• (Gar)dens

  

  A proud father writes: my youngest daughter got married on Wednesday, at Tower Hamlets Town Hall in London. It was a wonderful day. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dens (various)

  

  When I looked up meanings of ‘dens’ as a word on its own rather than the plural of ‘den’ I found that it referred to a type of fracture, a part of the spinal... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dens - Sanctuary

  

  My eldest grandson liked to enclose himself in the book corner. He discovered that by opening a door to the toy cupboard and a door on the fitted unit, he... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION