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• Mermaids - Of Course They Are Real!

  

  I was thinking about mermaids, trying to decide how to approach this blog when I realised that the answers I was looking for might just be right in front of me. Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chimneys

  

  Gawd bless Dick Van Dyke and his motley crew of chimney-sweeps! For which young boy, after watching the original film of 'Mary Poppins ', didn't hanker after... Read more

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

• Four Legs Good - Come on Pearl

  

  I am getting very excited! For some weeks now I have been following the adventures of a four-legged friend. Pearl is a beautiful rescue donkey who has been... Read more

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

• Four Legs Good - Cassie and Crombie

  

  We’d had cats, hamsters and gerbils when the children were small. What they really wanted was a dog. When the last of the gerbils passed away, the pleas began... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Quince

  

  . A suitably regal theme for jubilee week-end perhaps? Bit of a posh fruit? They dined like princes on slices of quinces, runcible spoons to hand, in street... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Quince

  

  One of the few places in the world that I would dearly like to visit is Mesopotamia. It has so many claims to be the cradle of human civilisation. From cities t... Read more

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

• False Memory

  

  I thought I'd already written this week's blog! False memory - only joking. đŸ˜‰My reading matter at the moment is 'Girl To City: a memoir... Read more

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

• Memory Spins False Worlds

  

  Our fame is as storytelling creatures. Arguably, this is the dividing line between animal and humankind. Our ability to displace ourselves from the present... Read more

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

• False Memory - The Way It Should Have Been

  

  One of my nephews had a birthday last weekend. He is my sister’s eldest and was the first baby to be welcomed into the immediate family since she herself was... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2022 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Estuary

  

  When weather conditions are right, we are favoured with stunning tangerine sunsets up on the Fylde coast, facing due west as we do across the expanse of Irish... Read more

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

• 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