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• Surviellance - Five Eyes.

  

  The word surveillance comes from a French phrase for "watching over" - sur means "from above" and veiller is the verb "to watch." Surveillance... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Boom! Boom!

  

  Oh dear, oh dear - one-liners has not proved a popular theme with our Dead Good bloggers! As it was one of my suggestions, I will shoulder the blame for the... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• One Liners - One Track.

  

  Sorry to all you wonderful Dead Good blog readers - I almost let you down this week. I was appearing on stage the night before my regular blogging day and was... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Harvest - What Happens When It Fails?

  

  The Great Irish Famine (An Gorta M贸r) From 1845-52, the failure of Ireland's potato harvest devastated the population; a million people died from sicknes... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Harvest - The Pumpkin

  

  I wanted to carry a neat arrangement of fresh fruit or vegetables placed in a shallow box on a green bed of scrunched tissue paper. It didn’t happen. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• When Hallowe'en Poetry Rocked The Garden

  

  In Hallowe'en week, the Dead Good Poets ran a ghoulish poetry workshop as part of the fun and games on offer at Devonshire Road Rock Garden's Hallowe'en Party.... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Delinquency

  

  The eighth deadly sin has proved a fruitful blog topic this week and my co-posters have successfully nominated abuse, consumerism and social media as worthy... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Eighth Deadly Sin....Abuse

  

  Abuse has hit the headlines for many months now. I'm looking at the subject from many different angles.... Abuse of one's own body. Either on purpose or... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Consumerism - the Eighth Deadly Sin.

  

  I had to do a bit of research for this one. I understand the idea of seven deadly sins and they all have modern day connotations. Gluttony - can lead to... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Eighth Deadly Sin - Social Media

  

  The World Wide Web. Love it or hate it, use it or ignore it. We are surrounded by an invisible network capable of linking people with others all over the world... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Feeling Lost

  

  When my elder daughter was a three-year-old, she worried every time I travelled up to London on my own of a week-end. She used to fret that I'd get lost: 'What... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lost

  

  An interesting word 'lost'. Well, for me, it conjured up different thoughts. I looked out my archival poems. Many, many pieces bemoaning lost love, lost youth,... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lost - with a Song in My Heart?

  

  I am a big fan of wild birds. I have an old apple tree in the middle of my lawn and every day, I top up the feeder that hangs from a lower branch. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lost - Something Dark

  

  It was tough watching ‘Philomena’. I’d seen the trailers on TV and it looked like a good film. Judi Dench always gives a first class performance and I like Stev... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lost

  

  I’m a bit nervous about sharing this because I’m not an artist, unlike most of the people who blog here. In my case this is just a bit of fun and taking part,... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Trust

  

  In this morally ambiguous 21st century world, awash with DIY-propaganda, false narratives and multiple versions of the truth, how is an ordinary Joe (or... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Trust - a Societal Concept.

  

  I have to say how moved I have been this week by Facebook friends who have posted "Me Too" notices on their pages at last 'coming out ' to express that they... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• D.u.s.k

  

  Here it comes now as I write, edging crepuscular. This is dusk, of course, when "shadows of the evening steal across the sky". Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gloaming

  

  A fine word ' Gloaming'. It expresses the hue, light and atmosphere of dusk, twilight, sunset...whatever you wish to call it. Most people can quote " Roaming... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dusk - a Trick of the Light.

  

  Apparently dusk is highly technical. The time of dusk is the moment at the very end of astronomical twilight, just before total darkness or night. In fact it... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2017 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION