Art
Craster Harbour
Craster Harbour Acrylic on canvas board 24″ x 18″ Available to purchase on either Artgallery.co.uk or the Rippingham Gallery
Music
Video Saturday – Rod Stewart
Those who may have known me back in the day will probably acknowledge that I used to be a big fan of Mr Stewarts music of that there is no doubt. The first time I heard one of his records it was of course “Maggie May” in 1971, I wasn’t one of the smart dudes […]
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How she coped with her cancer…
You see, how can I put this, our mother was a bit thick, came from a generation when girls didn’t really leave school with much of an education, naive, thats the best word to describe her, gullible, that too, me and our Ned could tell her anything and she believed us implicitly. Given to slight […]
Video Saturday and The Museum of Recollections
July 1974, specifically the first week of July 1974 and The Rubettes are playing in Germany to a largely unappreciative audience of German teenagers who always seem to display the angst of a generation who were born to late to be Nazi’s but are yet still unsure of what their purpose in the world is […]
What Our Ned And Oliver Twist Had In Common
He wanted to be a carpenter did our Ned, in that last year at school when every 16 year old gets to make their career choices he only ever wanted to be a carpenter. In his school there was no question that you’d stay on to do A levels, his school was a School for […]
In the cellar…
Why don’t they build houses with cellars anymore ? I long for the day when new house builders across the land make an advertising point of the fact that their new two-bed starter home on a brown field site with the evocative name of “Lark Ascending Fields” distracts you from recalling that the local bus […]
Leeds Modern School, The Early Days, Part Five
We sat there and we listened in awe to our new form master Mr Summers or “Arnie” as he became known to us. Alan was his correct christian name and as he’d write his initials “AS” on every piece of work he marked he quickly became associated with Arnie Sachnusum the hero of the Jules […]
Leeds Modern School, The Early Days, Part Four
A tall figure clad in an all-encompassing black gown appeared at the top of a flight of stone steps that led up to one of two entrances into the school from the junior yard, his appearance was met with immediate silence from all of the second year boys and a look of bewilderment from the […]
Leeds Modern School, The Early Days, Part Three
The long school summer holidays stretched out ahead of us and we put the thought of the grammer school to the back of our minds as we mucked about all day in what remained of Moseley Wood, built tree houses, fell out of tree houses, accidentally nailed our clothes and ourselves to trees while building […]
Leeds Modern School, The Early Days, Part Two
Many of my friends had also passed the 11 plus, but many had failed, we didn’t know it then but these last weeks at primary school would be the last time that we saw some of the ones who had failed, we’d spent half of our lives so far schooling and playing together, and now, […]
Leeds Modern School – The Early Days, Part One
The first day of your first term at Grammar school is a milestone, a marker point in your life, not many people will forget their first day at “big school”, but when you’re going to a Grammar school which is still run in the “traditional” way, then its not just your first day at “big […]
Heed my warning, NEVER deodorise the Gentlemans parts
It had started as a normal Saturday morning. The day I deodorised the Gentlemans parts. I was 17 years old, fit and healthy, some would say “in the prime of my youth” and yet what did I know of life ? Nothing. Why I didn’t even know that the Gentlemans parts need specialist care, they […]
