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• Language Of Labour

  

  The jewel of the north (and in fact the whole of Lancashire) went into Tier 3 Lockdown at midnight. But however depressing that is, don't be misled by the... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mind Your Language - Wash Your Mouth Out!

  

  That soap. I can still remember the taste and the smell. Green Palmolive rubbed hard in my mouth by my very angry mother. All I said was ‘bugger or buggery’... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Sea, The Sea

  

  I've named today's blog twice, in imitation and recognition of Iris Murdoch's Booker Prize winning novel of 1978, because I happen to be re-reading The Sea,... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Sea

  

  We are very fortunate in this country that no place is far from the sea. I was brought up in Aberdeen, but our house was on the very boundary of the city so we... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Sea

  

  I was born in Blackpool in 1958 and I there is nothing that inspires me more than a drive along the promenade - car indows open, wind blowing the waves. Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Magic Has Never Dimmed

  

  Anybody who knows me, knows how much I love the sea. Not sailing on it. That’s a totally different story. And not swimming in it unless it’s several thousand... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Sea - My Bit of Blackpool

  

  When my parent's wish for a pub on Blackpool promenade was granted, I had the joy of having a front bedroom facing the sea. I was fascinated by the view. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shakers & Makers

  

  Hmm - an odd title but I'm going to give it a go, if you'll indulge me in some reflections about those bad boys and girls of Greek divinity, shakers and makers... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shakers And Makers

  

  “To understand history, you have to go on reading till you can hear people talking”, says James Campbell in ‘The Anglo Saxons’. At the start of the Covid... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Face Furniture

  

  This is very bad! Six months after we first went into Covid-19-induced lockdown, the jewel of the north finds itself in lockdown again, as of midnight just... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sideboards

  

  Some time after we moved to Scotland from London my parents bought a dining suite comprising an extending table with 6 chairs and a sideboard. These items were... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sideboards

  

  The first thing that sprang to mind when I thought of sideboards was: if there are sideboards, were there just originally boards? Well yes, there were. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Sweets on Grandma's Sideboard

  

  Sideboard - it’s a funny old word, isn’t it? Hardly used these days. Apparently, the definition of a sideboard is 'a flat-topped piece of furniture with... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sideboards - Thanks for the Memory

  

  I wonder what happened to all the sideboards, those massive pieces of highly polished furniture that half-filled most dining rooms. Someone is going to tell me... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Ghazal

  

  Once in a poetic while, the Dead Good Blog feels duty-bound to pay attention to a specific verse form, pantoum, tanka and villanelle being among recent examples. Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Growing Pain

  

  Apparently I am a "woke leftie, spouting a redundant Marxist narrative" - an accusation laid at my door recently by someone who not only believes both 'woke' an... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Growing Pains

  

  I’m 21, so I’m an adult, but a young adult. I’m not one of those youngsters who think they know everything. I am aware I have a lot to learn! Adulting is hard. Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Growing Pains

  

  Plant a seed. Nurture it. It will grow. How I came to write as a guest writer on this poets’ blog is somewhat miraculous and frankly a result of a lifetime of... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Growing Pains - Back to School

  

  Fear gripped me. Mid-dream and half asleep, I slipped out of bed in response to the screaming child in the next room. I tried to hurry, but my heart was poundin... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rhapsode

  

  In classical Greek, a ῥαψῳδός (rhapsōidos) meant one who "sews songs together", from the verb rhaptei (to sew) and... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2020 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION