A Dead Good Blog

One of the highlights of my week is the afternoon I spend as a volunteer in the Key Stage 1 library at my local primary school. I take group...

The Beatles released their 'final' 45rpm single this week. " Now And Then "  came out in a blaze of worldwide promotional ...

We’d had cats, hamsters and gerbils when the children were small. What they really wanted was a dog. When the last of the gerbils passed awa...

Note to blogself: post at dusk... for crepuscular derives from the Latin crepusculum , meaning twilight; and twilight, in turn, means that ...

Well I am back - after  a sustained absence. I had to take time out to look after number one. I have been quite poorly but more than that - ...

A fine word 'gloaming'. It expresses the hue, light and atmosphere of dusk, twilight, sunset...whatever you wish to call it. Most pe...

 by Ashley Lister  At the start of this month I was ill. There’s been talk that I was bitten by Aragog. Personally I think it was mor...

 I don't do lists. My head is a mishmash of randomness, as a result I forget things a lot and am very disorganised. I'll give it a t...