A Dead Good Blog

One of the delights of playing football for me was sliding across a few yards of a muddy pitch and timing it just right so that the ball and...

Great crazes from history? No contest for me. It's got to be the mid-Victorian madness known as Fern Fever, or pteridomania to give it...

Lancashire Dead Good Poets began some fifteen years ago (approximately) and used to host regular monthly live open mis poetry nights in an a...

I am the Queen of Crazes, or the Crazy Queen, whichever you prefer. After 73 years I finally have the answer to my crazes craze. I’m current...

When I asked T whether she had crazes , she thought for moment and replied that she didn’t have crazes, she had enthusiasms. Which I think i...

It's the summer of 1981. I'm in a long-term relationship with Ms X (a divorcee who might have left her husband to be with me) and we...

The dictionary definition is of a way or track laid down for walking or made by continual treading. It is the course or direction in which s...

At the end of my road, about fifty metres away, I’d be standing on the Preston Guild Wheel which is a 21 mile circular route around the city...

Throughout our adult lives we follow paths based on our choices. We reach cross-roads and face directional dilemmas. There can be consequenc...

Journal : It appears there are several definitions. The first and most commonly used defines a  newspaper, (true to the French root word jou...