A Dead Good Blog

  I’m pleased to discover that one of our familiar cafes in Kirkcudbright has re-opened. I think it closed last year and the business was up...

Curry has become a modern catch-all label for pretty much any spicy stew from Jamaica to Jakarta. The word itself is an anglicised form of ...

When I was in the top end of primary school in 1959 or thereabouts, I used to go to Burnden Park every other Saturday to watch Bolton Wander...

I have a feeling that some of my colleagues on this blog will be delighted to write about curry. Probably go out for one to research in grea...

Sign up for our 5th March open mc night on Zoom, 7.30pm GMT.  No headliners, no set theme, just 20 x 5-minute slots on offer. Everyone welco...

Preamble : With royalty commanding so much media attention recently, I thought I'd write my Saturday blog about Henry VIII, considered b...

According to the dictionary, charm can mean a quality that makes you like or feel attracted to someone or something. For instance, “she was...

I’ve always been fascinated by the following as explained by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN): All matter around us is ...

‘ In Search of Charm ’ by Mary Young. This book should have been returned to Palatine Secondary School library in 1970. Oops, my mistake, bu...

Some years ago, Adele and I on a grand day out from Blackpool ventured across the old county line between Lancashire and Yorkshire. That bou...