A Dead Good Blog

Squawk. Vroom. What's the fastest bird in the world?  That's not the lead in to a joke, by the way. And the answer is not the swift,...

I’ve just checked Planefinder as there’s a plane going over Preston at the moment and I’ve looked to check where it’s going and how fast it’...

The latest Penguin Classics newsletter dropped into my mailbox this week, reminding me that "Picnic season has arrived. The countryside...

Back in December 2024 I wrote about the film ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ as my contribution to the ‘Disappearing Act’ theme. I mostly remembere...

This is it, that perfect summer picnic weather is here, and what are we doing? Complaining about the heat and how draining it is to feel con...

By the summer of 1966, the Beatles had grown weary of the worldwide phenomenon they had become, the claims that such unprecedented levels of...

The curious case of the disappearing Turkish military moustache I was recently passing a hot afternoon on a guided tour of the museum at Sel...

It was during the Covid lockdown when I began to question why on earth I was shaving when I wasn’t going anywhere other than along the river...

  “A kiss without a moustache is like an egg without salt.” This saying dates back to Victorian times. The origin is unknown but has been ci...

Oh dear, has it come to this? My own dad didn't really do jokes. He wasn't exactly humourless, for he loved the films of Norman Wisd...