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A Dead Good Blog
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A group of poets from Blackpool, Lancashire, discussing poetry, inspiration and writing in general.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 2046 )
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Message in a Bottle - Bacardi
Bottle sorting. A smelly, sticky way to spend a few hours on weekend mornings and probably the dirtiest job I ever did in our pub. Read more
Posted on 02 May 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Message in a Bottle
Everything seemed simpler in the 1950s when I was growing up. In the summer holidays (which, incidentally, consisted of endless days of constant blue skies and... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Red Letter Days
Aged 28 I was diagnosed, in Oxford, with Ulcerative Colitis, which would not respond to treatment and aged 30 surgery was suggested. However I didn't fancy the... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Red Letter Day - Celebrating 150 Years in Blackpool
This is a very exciting year for The Imperial Hotel, Blackpool: on Thursday 22nd June, the most iconic seafront building will turn back the clock to celebrate... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Red Letter Day - Manchester 2004
I can’t possibly write on the theme ‘Red Letter Day’ without mentioning The Moody Blues. Sorry if you’ve heard it all before and if you know me you will have ha... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Red Letter Day For The Feet
When you have a family as large, as close and as long lived as mine is you're bound to have a fair few Red Letter Days (RLDs) along the way. One suffers, we... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Referred Growing Pains
Let me think.... no, I don't recall ever experiencing growing pains. I remember going through a phase (don't ask me at what age - probably 5 or 6) where I... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Growing Pains
Some say that " growing pains" are a figment of imagination. For me they were real and very physically aching. I remember coming down stairs, having been woken... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Growing Pains - Our Back Bedroom
On Saturday morning I was upstairs in the spare back bedroom doing some ironing. Whoever is in charge of programme scheduling on BBC Radio 2 has shifted Sounds... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Growing Pains - They Run In the Family
There are two types of growing pains, as far as I'm concerned. There are the well known physical pains that children suffer from as they try to keep up with... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Closely Encountered Clerihews
Clerihews! What on earth? you may well ask... and several of you have. If this week's theme has proved one thing, it is that very few have ever encountered a... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Clerihews...I Never Knew!
I confess to not knowing what a "Clerihew" was. So after reading some of this week's contributions I looked it up. Interesting and just my type of ' thing'. Read more
Posted on 14 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Clerihews - Don't Lose Your Head!
Ah the clerihew. I had a brief encounter on an OCNW 'B' Unit course in creative writing in 2007. For one poetry assignment in poetic form, I applied my small... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Clerihews - Just For Laughs
With thanks to Edmund Clerihew Bentley for this form of light-hearted poetry. I hope my efforts here raise a smile. They may not stick exactly to his rules,... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Towie!
Apologies upfront to any junk media addicts who might have been expecting a blog about reality tv, being famous for being famous, or the tedious excesses of... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Ignorance - a Constant Source of Embarrassment
The older I get, the more I realise, with quiet despair, how many things have passed me by in life. I thought I was a woman of the world. Read more
Posted on 09 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
The Road Less Travelled.. ,
I'd only been abroad twice, before I was widowed. They were a week in the Rhine Valley and a weekend in Bologne ...somewhere roundabout 1986. Yet I'd always... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
An Idiot Abroad - Keep an Open Mind.
I have travelled abroad since I was 8 years old. First trip was only to Belgium with family - we flew to Ostend and had a great time at The White Horse Inn. Read more
Posted on 06 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
An Idiot Abroad - Boots In Manhattan
It wasn’t my intention to be an idiot abroad. It’s never my intention to be an idiot anywhere but things happen sometimes and the only way forward is to go... Read more
Posted on 04 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Pair of Idiots Abroad
When our children were small and we had very little spare money we used to pack the rusty old Sierra to the roof, squash the children in the back like... Read more
Posted on 02 April 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION