A Dead Good Blog

Poetry books are in abundance on my book shelves and bedside table. I love poetry. I love words, artistically shaped into meaningful phrases...

When I first started thinking about writing this blog on Magpies I realised that I had no idea where the name came from. My first thought wa...

One for sorrow, two for joy. There they are again, on the fence, eyeing up the bird-feeders, the cheeky pair. They were going for it the oth...

So the football seasons have ended, the Play-Offs are into their second legs, the curse of Benfica continues, and the success of Arsene Wen...

Earlier on this year, you’d have found me proud as anything of our Olympic games. I was positively gushing on here about how the feel good...