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• Mouth

  

  It's a funny word, mouth. Of course, any word can start to look strange if you scrutinise it for long enough, roll it round and pronounce it over and again.... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mouths - Open Wide!

  

  “Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings comes forth wisdom.” Or sometimes surprise, but nearly always truth, as they see it, and they always say it. I was... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Playfulness

  

  I hoped the theme of playfulness would provide ample scope for members of the Dead Good Blogging collective to have some fun with words this week... Not so,... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Forelegs Good!

  

  Quite how we ever learned to balance so well on our hind legs without the assistance of a powerful tail we shall never know. That secret (along with the tail)... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Four Legs Good - Horses

  

  I love horses. They are beautiful, powerful creatures that have influenced our lives both as beasts of burden and as sporting heroes. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Four Legs Good - Thanks, George

  

  “Four legs good, two legs bad.” Later, “Four legs good, two legs better.” An unwelcoming, imposing secondary school full of strangers in a small, unfamiliar... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Travesty

  

  Bakewell, Derbyshire is something of a family home on my father's side. He and my uncle grew up there, went to school there, and the Rowland family built the... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Travesty

  

  According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a definition of Travesty is: something that fails to represent the values and qualities that it is intended to... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Travesty - Dressing Up

  

  I’m sure I chose ‘Shelf’ for last week’s blog, which makes me feel really bad about not making a contribution. I had some notes in my head and even the... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Sense Of Shelf

  

  Shelf has proved a flat and uninspiring subject matter for our Dead Good blogging collective this week. Not even the person who nominated the topic has managed... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Elefantasy

  

  Oh dear, elephants again! Somewhere in my back pages on the Dead Good Blog is one about When Elephants Strolled The Sands, featuring Blackpool Tower Circus... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Elephants

  

  Firstly let me apologise for my tardiness in writing a regular blog. At present my life is like an episode of a soap opera. Anyway, I settled down for a few... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Elephants - Jumbo Jet

  

  My recent travels have taken me to Cheshire, Yorkshire and Scotland over the last five or six weeks. Most of it has been during some of the warmest summer... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Acton Impulse

  

  Some think that Acton Impulse is the name of a west London ice-hockey franchise, runners-up in the National Ice Hockey League in 1984, 1987, 1988 and 2003. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Impulse - Spontaneous Acts of Generosity

  

  From a very young age it was obvious that I was a fairly impulsive person. I often found myself stuck up on the roof or chimney stack having followed my... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sic Note

  

  Paper! It has to rank as one of the greatest of man's inventions, along with the wheel, the football and the long-playing record. Already you can tell I'm in no... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Paper - Examination

  

  I chose a place next to the wall. I could lean my bare arm on the tiles for some cooling respite from the heat of the afternoon. The scuffed, well-worn desk... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lit From Below

  

  Note to blogself: post at dusk... for crepuscular derives from the Latin crepusculum, meaning twilight; and twilight, in turn, means that brief period of the da... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Crepuscular

  

  Well I am back - after a sustained absence. I had to take time out to look after number one. I have been quite poorly but more than that - I simply haven't... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flagrance

  

  I'm afraid I've been somewhat short of time in the last few days to do any serious preparation for the blog. That, coupled with the fact that the topic of... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION