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• Happenstance

  

  I’m going to use the words of the wonderful Helena Nelson to describe the starting of HappenStance. I can’t do better:"If I had another life, and was choosing... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Happenstance and the Surrealists

  

  Surrealism is an art movement that began in the 1920s and is known for the creation of hybrids of words and images often generated through the experiences of... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Weekend

  

  Good evening, for it is quite late now, and the last blackbirds have long piped in the dusk. As the default weekend blogger, I thought I might serve up a slice... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Week-end

  

  spelled in the old-fashioned way is Saturday and Sunday. Nowadays, of course, the two words usually run together as weekend, but people take the meaning... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Week-end?

  

  So is it week-end or weekend? The thought of trying to write around 600 words on the subject of the hyphen is appalling. So I will ignore it. Read more

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

• Week-end - Here Comes the Weekend

  

  As a child I remember looking forwards to the weekends, but thinking back now, they weren’t the best times. Age eleven, I was miserable in my secondary school... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Banana Slugs

  

  Sometimes, world events transpire in such an ugly way that my intention to write a jolly, informative blog on the topic of slugs (and the lovely banana slug in... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Slugs

  

  . The word conjures up images of slime, plants being devoured and all round negativity. People with allotments and gardens may view them as the “enemy” as they... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' March Open Mic Night

  

  Our upcoming March open mc night on zoom has a topical theme...Of course, it's not compulsory. Anything goes. Join us if you can.Steve ;-) Email ThisBlogThis! Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Slugs

  

  I was having a cup of tea with my friend M in my kitchen, I hadn’t seen her for a while so was explaining the problem I was having with slugs gaining access fro... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Favourite Film

  

  Before I get onto this week's topic of my favourite film, let me just say this is my 500th Dead Good Blog. Cue a small fanfare (click on the hyperlink)... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Favourite Film

  

  Where to begin with this blog subject? There are so many to almost make it to the final count. My mother let me miss an afternoon’s school to sit through an... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Movie Stills

  

  In 1937 Tom Harrisson founded the Mass-Observation Project. He had previously conducted anthropological research in Sarawak using a variety of observational... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Favourite Film

  

  Today my favourite film is 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yesterday it was Casablanca. Tomorrow it might be Annie Hall. In other words a favourite film can be... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Favourite Film - Goodnight, Mr Tom

  

  A favourite film is a tough choice to make. I’ve picked a few. I think they started as books, with the exception of ‘Grease’, where if I remember correctly,... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I ❤️ You

  

  I feel this week's blog concerning love should be about the attachments that enrich life and give it meaning, so let me start off with a portmanteau quote:... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 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... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 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... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 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, th... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 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 spee... Read more

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