A Dead Good Blog

By way of YouTube I’ve just had a look at Cottingley Beck as it still flows over rocks and is overshadowed by trees. Back in 1917 it was the...

Long before I’d ever heard of Shakespeare, I was introduced to ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ through excerpts in story board style in an annua...

I hadn’t heard of ‘brown study’. When I looked it up and did a bit of online research, I quickly realised that I do it all the time. Deep in...

Stitching ‘Titania’ was one of the longest projects I’ve ever done. The end result is far more beautiful than my photograph shows. Perha...

The garden of my early childhood was where I learnt about tenderness and beauty, pain and failures, mystery and miracles, friendship a...

by Rachel McGladdery My childhood was difficult. I spent large tracts of it with my grandparents at times of trauma (which were frequent), n...