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• A Favourite Film - Goodnight, Mr Tom

  

  A favourite film is a tough choice to make. I’ve picked a few. I think they started as books, with the exception of ‘Grease’, where if I remember correctly,... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I ❤️ You

  

  I feel this week's blog concerning love should be about the attachments that enrich life and give it meaning, so let me start off with a portmanteau quote:... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Love You

  

  I was a bit flummoxed by this week’s topic of I Love You but as luck would have it I was in Kendal yesterday and popped into The Famous 1657 Chocolate House as... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• PS I Love You (no, Really I Do)

  

  I love you. Three little words.I have a bit of a love hate relationship with those three little words. And it’s not because I don’t like them or I never use... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dashboards

  

  This could go a number of ways, gentle readers. There are options. I could write about instrument panels in cars, trains, boats planes - let's call that A, th... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dashboard

  

  I have a vague recollection of the dashboard on the first car I bought back in around 1974, it was an Austin Mini, and only remember the gauges showing the spee... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dashboard

  

  It is many years since I crashed my four or five year old face into the shiny dashboard of my father’s Jaguar Mk 2, I think it was. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lancashire Dead Good Poets' February Open Mic Night

  

  Our February event coming soon...20 open mic slots available. No set theme (though love is in the ether). Email: [email protected] to reserve a slot t... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Jigsaw

  

  I’d always thought that solving a jigsaw puzzle was a solitary occupation done in your living room on a quiet evening on a cleared table and no cats, dogs or... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chickens

  

  Typically around the penultimate week-end in January, we have an avian theme to the Dead Good Blog, to chime in with the RSPB's 'Big Garden Birdwatch' event. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chickens

  

  When I was at school in Birmingham a few years ago and the snow was real snow then that was the time for an ice slide to be created across the playground. My... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chickens

  

  Years ago, when I worked in an infant school, I was given the task of drawing a large chicken which was to be the centrepiece of a class project and would fill ... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chickens and Eggs: White Vs Brown

  

  Growing up in the US, white eggs were all I knew and they demanded mandatory refrigeration. At Easter, I loved colouring them. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fake News

  

  Preambling: We generally think of fake news in terms of human speech (printed, written or spoken), and naturally that is mainly what I'm concerned with. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fake News

  

  In the Epic of Gilgamesh, written on clay tablets, Ea (a Mesopotamian god) tells the Babylonian Noah, known as Uta–napishti, to promise his people that food wil... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Make A Wish

  

  How many of you read Peter Pan as children? Who remembers Chapter 3: Come Away! Come Away! in which Peter teaches the Darling children to fly? Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Resolutions: Wishful Thinking?

  

  I am sure that I have been making New Year Resolutions since I was about ten which probably means I have made at least fifty or more. I can’t remember a single... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Make A Wish

  

  I am writing this on my usual afternoon at my usual time but this morning T’s dog, Annie, went to the vet for what could be a serious operation so I am going... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rock And Roll Music

  

  Just let me hear some of that rock and roll musicAny old way you choose it It's got a back beat, you can't lose it Any old time you use it It's got to be rock... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Music

  

  When I first saw that the topic for this week’s blog was music, my mind immediately jumped to Desert Island Discs. I have been practising for this show for year... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2025 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION