A Dead Good Blog

It has not been an easy week, and I'm not really focused on clouds or blogs right now.  On the plus side, America demonstrated an upswel...

To my certain Norwich, not since school daze have I composted a pome in heroic cutlets . Hand to hart, pen to paper, it's just not my st...

An alarmingly topical take tonight as Storm Boelo blasts across the jewel of the north, furious on the heels of slightly more dainty Storm A...

A staple of US crime novels and gangster movies, running    numbers    is part of the mechanism of illegal betting rackets, a favourite ente...

I've spent a couple of weeks reading and researching about streetlamps . It's a huge and illuminating topic: from flaming tar torche...

When I was but a toothy youth, I brushed my teeth with Wisdom  brushes. Their website proudly proclaims:  "Few companies can boast a ri...

One word: Brexit . It's now ten years since the infamous and deeply flawed referendum that not only split the nation in half (52% to 48%...

What colour is your aura? I was once told mine is purple ... whatever that signifies, if I even have one. And does a person's "eff...

What on earth to write about  Swimming pools ? Frankly, the topic's wasted on me as I never learned to swim. However, I know some cats t...

Some (on the right, in the fossil fuel lobbies, among the climate catastrophe deniers and net zero detractors) are advocating heavily for th...

I wonder if the name Colin Pitchfork means anything to anyone reading my DNA blog. The possible early release from prison of violent offend...

"Patient 'B' is an interesting case study," said my friend the psychiatrist over a pint of the finest and a large white wi...