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A Dead Good Blog
http://deadgoodpoets.blogspot.co.uk/
A group of poets from Blackpool, Lancashire, discussing poetry, inspiration and writing in general.
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The Hipster
According to Wiki, "The hipster subculture is stereotypically composed of younger and middle-aged adults who reside primarily in gentrified neighbourhoods. Read more
Posted on 26 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Hipster - Has Anyone Got a Cowbell?
All I wanted was a bell round my neck. Everyone else had one. The ‘everyone’ in this case referred to the groups of fashionable young people parading the... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Oscar Wilde - His Part In My Downfall
If I've piqued your interest with the title of today's blog then we're off to a promising start. To be earnest with you (which is important, is it not? Read more
Posted on 22 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Oscar Wilde's Poetic Pedigree.
Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1853 - 1900) Irish poet, wit and dramatist studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and in 1878 won the Newdigate prize for hi... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Oscar Wilde - Come to My Party
If I could host a gathering of people from bygone times, Oscar Wilde would be way up at the top of my guest list. I would sit him next to me for a good while... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Just One Slice
What can I tell you about cake? I don't bake. I've been known to enjoy the odd piece of Battenburg (it's the marzipan) and I'll happily see off a seasonal hunk... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Cake - Baked With Love
“This morning I resolved to bake A Mary Berry drizzle cake. Down your way the sun may sizzle, Round here there is heavy drizzle.” Pam Ayres, from Twitter We hav... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Saturday Sailing
I've regaled you before, (regular readers of the Saturday blog), with stories of how I was born and brought up in West Africa; Nigeria to be exact in the... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Sailing - All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor
‘The big ships sail on the Alley Alley O, the Alley Alley O…’ That nursery rhyme always takes me back to the film version of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Sailing
I am a sailor. I am. At least I was. I still sail, just differently. A proper grown up now, conscious of everything that I do. A proper bore often. Sailing... Read more
Posted on 02 April 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Stranger Than Fiction
It was mad, bad and dangerous to know Lord Byron who once asserted that "truth is always stranger than fiction"; and Mark Twain who is supposed to have added th... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Strange But True
At 2:10 pm on 5th December 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a... Read more
Posted on 29 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Strange but True - Amsterdam Funeral
I was trying to find something different to fit in with the theme of Strange but True when I came across this, I think it was in a ‘100 Strange but True Facts’... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Spotlight
What I like about this weekly blogging malarkey is the good prodding it gives one to delve into, mull over and then write (creatively, I hope) about something... Read more
Posted on 24 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Being in the Spotlight
From a young age I enjoyed being in the limelight. We, local children, devised back garden concerts and I recall singing "Tulips from Amsterdam" aged about 6,... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
In the Spotlight.
Did someone switch on a spotlight? Well just point me in the right direction. Some of my happiest memories have been made bang smack in the middle of a dance... Read more
Posted on 22 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
In The Spotlight - Let Me Hide
I prefer to watch the drama unfold, rather than have a part in it. Some things are impossible to avoid but as far as possible I keep out of the spotlight. Read more
Posted on 20 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Yarn
emerged blinking into the light of a cold March afternoon. She was flanked on either side by two soldiers whom she judged to be of an age with herself. Read more
Posted on 17 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
You Can Never Have Enough Yarn!
I trained in Dress and Design at the "Do School" in Aberdeen, part of Robert Gordon Institute of Technology...now University. I'd been sewing since a child, as... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Ripping Yarns
My father was a wonderful storyteller. He would entertain customers at his pubs with raucous tales of his adventures both as a young man growing up in pre WWII... Read more
Posted on 15 March 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION