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• Rock And Roll Music

  

  Just let me hear some of that rock and roll musicAny old way you choose it It's got a back beat, you can't lose it Any old time you use it It's got to be rock... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Music

  

  When I first saw that the topic for this week’s blog was music, my mind immediately jumped to Desert Island Discs. I have been practising for this show for year... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Music - Sounds of My Life

  

  “If music be the food of love, play on;” from Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare.“Music was my first love and it will be my last…” John Miles. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' January Open Mic Night

  

  The first online event of 2025 is coming up on January 2nd...You're very welcome to join us. Just email [email protected] to sign up to read and/or... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bottles

  

  What do you call this run of days between Christmas Day and New Year's Day? Some label it 'Betwixtmas' , which I quite like; others 'the week that time forgot' ... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bottles

  

  As Wednesday is my usual day for the DGP blog and this Wednesday is Christmas Day I’m betting that at sometime during the day most of us will have come across... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Disappearing Act

  

  I wasn't sure how I would tackle this topic. I was favouring a piece about the mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie in December 1926. But then last week ... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Disappearing Acts, 1970s Style

  

  Let’s go back in time. Do you remember the TV series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin from 1976 to 1979, which starred the late and great comedy actor... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Disappearing Act

  

  A few months ago I mentioned the act of going to the cinema involves surrendering a belief in the here and now and disappearing into another world that almost... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Disappearing Acts: Magicians Past and Present

  

  "…making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back." 'The Prestige', Christopher PriestThe human fascination with things magically disappearin... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mondegreen

  

  I knew when I nominated this theme of Mondegreen that it would prove a tricky customer. I'm starting with a visual pun. What do you see in the image below?... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mondegreen

  

  I had no idea what a mondegreen was before starting this blog and when I did find out via google then I was surprised that it was such a recent addition to the... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Reading

  

  Just the day for staying inside, away from storm Darragh, curled up warm with a good book. In my case its 'If He Hollers Let Him Go' by Chester Himes, his... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Reading

  

  So, you’re waiting at a Railway Station and realise that you’ve forgotten to bring a book to read for the four hour journey you have ahead of you. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Reading - I Love Books

  

  This is a favourite poem by Julia Donaldson, I opened a book and in I strode Now nobody can find me. I’ve left my chair, my house, my road, My town and my... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Primal

  

  I wasn’t feeling so well when I started on this blog. The last thing I needed was to have to sit down at a keyboard for however long it would take to write. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Christopher James Heyworth: a Retrospective

  

  This retrospective on the poetry of Christo (as he was known to us) concludes the occasional Sunday series featuring former Dead Good Poets who are, alas, no... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Definitely Not About T.R.A.M.S

  

  OK, I lied. (See postscript for explanation.) Blackpool is rightly famous for its trams, ancient and modern. They run the length of the promenade from Starr... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' December Open Mic Night

  

  Our last open mic night of 2024. Come and shine some of your poetic light into the darkness.Anyone who would like to tune in to listen along but not read is mor... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Trams

  

  I was wondering how to approach the topic of Trams and at a bit of a loss (and I certainly wasn’t going to do Blackpool) when T pointed out that just down the... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2024 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION